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Magnets

Audio Recordings, Relationships / September 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
With the power of the poles and the unlearned skill of compasses we are drawn round the curve of the earth And we touch, and move, and the iron filings dance
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Acorn Promise

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Hope, Trees / September 8, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sitting in oak shade holding in your warming hand shade for the future
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Regrets

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Covid19 / September 7, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You must give up your hope for a better past - Irvin Yalom Over your shoulder a virus stalking your every move and movie that you can’t go out to see So you stay at home and play old ones in your head of, If I had only said or not said or cast my vote another way that they might still be alive today Swivel your search to coming attractions
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Of Bears and Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Fear, Love / September 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You could draw a hundred mile circle around our Saskatchewan ranch and not find a bear anywhere And yet, there was always a bear Chasing me chasing me through my dreams until I fell, always fell, into a well and awoke still falling They say, in falling dreams you die if you hit bottom before waking That was when I was four I don’t dream that dream anymore Yet when I find myself falling in love tumbling down and down into love that old bear is still there And the fear to let go and hit bottom

Image by ArtTower from Pixabay 

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Bears on the Rocks

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Rocky Mountains / September 4, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Up the stubbled cheeks of the Canadian Rockies A morning kiss before they wake to show their teeth A breath of cold mist surprising as the surgeon’s slap Out the window, hills great grizzlies deep in sleep Fir tree fur warming humps and rumps
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American Sad

Audio Recordings, Haiku / September 3, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Why so little joy in pursuit of happiness American sad

Photo by Sander Crombach on Unsplash

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Hoodoos I Have Known and Loved

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Death, Wisdom / September 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Even and after the soft stone below the hard gets worn away by water and wind A hoodoo can stand for an almost, but never, forever Until one day the body fails and the great head falls carrying its wisdom into the canyon

Image by LoggaWiggler from Pixabay 

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Cousin Wayne

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Alcohol, Regret / August 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When Wayne was thirteen he had the finest blondest hair and the finest features and the finest mind of all the cousins round A city boy and cooler about everything than all of us until we took him hunting When his first shot hit the rabbit he ran and cried and held it till it died At eighteen he quit school with A grades to get a jump on a job met a girl and bragged of achievement on first date Over achievement it turned out to be quick marriage, quick, two children, three Army for security, liquor for the pain it was twenty years before I saw him again. He was in a downstairs bar sitting there as coarse and thick as adobe brick I wanted to roll it all back reach in for the lost fineness and yank it all inside out And hold him like the rabbit when he cried still innocent when it died
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Mirages

Travel / tagged Cars / August 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The thing about mirages I mean the ones on roads the ones on deserts are all about thirst The thing about mirages on roads is that your tires never go flat and the girl beside you never moves out from under your arm
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Birds of Pray

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Airplanes, Collections, Ford Thunderbird, Vintage Cars / August 29, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When burning the seeds of wants posing as needs arrives, as it mostly does at ouchy-ego-economic pains cars are still cheaper than planes

Author’s T-bird collection: a Red 1955 and two Black 1956s
(Photo Calgary, Alberta, mid 1970s.)

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