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Ode to the Farmer

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Appreciation, Danger, Death, Hunger / November 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No one will be surprised by the report
that farming is a very dangerous sport

What flapping empty-fingered gloves
point back to momentary lapses
What limbs with what power
have been taken off
by power take-offs

What tendons snapped like glass
and bones cut clean as grass
by unthinking mowers

And what of those neighbours
dead and true
who for a minute forgetting
what they knew
through red machines
combined with their grain

All these have earned his dusty tear
and many a “who’s next” fear

Year after year after year after year

And yet deep in the soils of time
the seeds of his goodness
are growing
while the world
turns in slow seasons

And he will be ready
when at last they declare
a true war on poverty
and are willing to bomb
with wheat

All They Survey

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Appreciation, Pride / November 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father
would stand for hours
just looking at his cows

Like God leaning
on a rail fence in heaven
pleased with his creation

Sonnet 43 Revisited

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Appreciation, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love / January 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do I love thee
let me not count the ways

Lists are for laundry
and for going to the store

One item more or less
I would not love you less or more

Here’s a link to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s original: https://poets.org/poem/how-do-i-love-thee-sonnet-43

The Fog of Farming

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Appreciation, Beauty / January 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In an eighty acre field of flax

it is easy

to overlook

the beauty of a single flower

Sitting by the Pool

Nature / tagged Appreciation / January 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Ken Christopher on Never Thought Of It As SolitudeNovember 19, 2024
Very nice!
Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!

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