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Black Friday

Uncategorized / November 29, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Driving past the homeless on the way to the big box store Wishing that I'd eaten less and given more
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In Gratitude For Your Life

Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude, Teacher / November 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In memory of Dr. Marvin Kimbrough PhD Ah Doctor Marvin, you were class in a glass the glass is broken – class spilt everywhere I want to believe that all is well and all your ripples spreading forever a part of God’s most perfect plan and yet I also want to say I stepped on a splinter again today
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How Not to Be a Turkey on Thanksgiving Day

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Holiday, Thanksgiving / November 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
How do you get to Carnegie Hall Practice Practice Practice So sip each morn and eve on plentitude And on the day of gratitude show up less loud and crude
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The Turkey Shoot

Farm, Nostalgia, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / November 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Small town Saskatchewan raising money for the curling rink Targets fifty feet away and old bent-sight 22’s to shoot The trick to bringing a turkey home was not how well at the bullseye shot but how fast you learned that life is sometimes three inches down and two to the left of where you aim
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Storm Windows on the Prairie

Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Fall, Winter / November 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Put them up too early and all the air you get till spring is three small holes under the wing and that hot stove hopping for the threshing crew will have them cooking like the stew Put them up too late and an early blizzard dumping deep freezes us all in our sleep
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The Innocence of Snow

Family, Nostalgia, Remembering / November 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Winter was winter and all the world When the only light was lamp and the only power God and the innocence of snow lay soft on lad and land   When floating breath of kin and kine was pure and white as well and mankind too as far as we could tell Antennae daily now break down that door with news of war
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A Haiku for Help

Haiku / tagged Injustice / November 23, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Wall on the border too short for such long weeping give the babies back
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Reparation

Remembering / tagged Human Dignity, Slavery / November 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Mothers torn from their children  one or the other on the auction block Who's to pay  how much to pay   no one alive to ask you say You could try along the border
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Cattails on the Prairie

Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / November 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Torch of hope where water's rare soft to the touch as baby's hair tho gently unlike its name-alike it has no thorns to rip you red if on it you should tread
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico

Nature, Travel / tagged Art / November 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In just this light in about this place The cliffs are brighter because she painted them
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