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Homeless

Audio Recordings / tagged Desparation, Loneliness / November 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Being homeless
is to have no history or story

The houseless
often those with theirs untold

Though I think not all are silent
round the bonfires of the damned

Homeless Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Desperation, Hunger, Poverty, Unhoused / November 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On a cold corner
flying signs of the times
may you land softly

To War and Then What

Audio Recordings / tagged Addiction, Loss of Innocence, Memorials, PTSD, Trauma, War / November 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

To send your children away
to come back corpses or killers
and there may be less difference
between them than we know

In the musical Streets written
for the homeless of Austin
they sing of the addicted vet
put to rest thirty years later

He really died in Vietnam
put his name up on the wall

Remembrance Day Coming Up A Storm

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Armistice Day, Death, Grief, Mourning, Peace, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Veterans, War / November 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The wind dries
tears upon the cheeks
while flags go clapping on

Leaves & petals
dance on wreaths
leaning on the cenotaph

And is that
whisling that we hear
a tune for less war or more

Prairie Boys

Audio Recordings / tagged Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Travel, Veterans, War / November 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Peaceful in a non-committal way
more likely to be killed by machinery
than a fellow human being

If you wanted to see a war
you would have to travel across
a great deal of land and more sea

Careful always with your cash
you would not purchase a return ticket

Going off to war – North West Mounted Police Division – Expanse, Saskatchewan, 1915

Mittens

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Community, Leaving Home, War / November 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fingers in mittens
are family keeping
each other warm

The cold indifference of gloves
much like the city fold that wore them

Pilots in the war had
mittens with a trigger finger
to do what needed to be done

Somewhere we had got a pair
a hero sometimes has to leave home

Losses

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Death, Grief / November 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Empty as a mouth full of snow - Lois P. Jones

We lost another calf
we lost another crop

We lost an uncle in the war

These are not like keys of city folks
that they find in their other coat

The things we lose out here
don't come back any more

The Way Joy Makes You Sad

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Memory / November 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How the train of memory
takes you back to then and there
and all that bliss that you got to share

Then quickly shunts to a side siding
or goes full gravel off the track
to grind to a halt at not coming back

Eyes of Friends

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / November 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While out pursuing life's dim ends
we often meet the eyes of friends

It's great to feel that magnet's pull
the hearts becoming warm and full

There may be time to stop and stare
and many years of love and care

Or maybe silent and by chance
just a brief brief moment's glance

It doesn't really matter much
the contact's made we feel the touch

Though if we ask of hows and whys
and what's the magic of those eyes

They do what mirrors can't quite do
they let you see right through to you

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Meeting Someone You’ve Known Forever

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Help, Pain, Redemption, Rescue, Set Backs, Surprise / November 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes it takes
one of you
getting hit by a truck
and there are so many kinds of trucks

And so many ways to be
scraped off the pavement
and put back together again

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