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Pere’s Rodeo

Audio Recordings / tagged Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Classics, Education, Learning, Parthenon Frieze, Passion, Teacher / May 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Horses racing around the Acropolis
brought Pere's blood to boiling

Students freezing in Lane Hall
heard horses above their heads
from another kind of frieze

Warming blood with history
less expensive than burning coal

Click here to learn more about Lane Hall and Pere Athol Murray from one of his students

Mossbank II

Audio Recordings / tagged Childhood, Learning, Music, Noise, Practice / March 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Valve trombone and trumpet
Ernie and me
poisoning the air with practice

Wisdom Ism

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Learning / February 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If your parents didn't give you smart
don't lose heart

Just eat your spinach
and peel your eyes
there may still be time for wise

Buddy Training

Audio Recordings / tagged Dogs, Experience, Learning, Pain / February 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first, the lesson after - Anonymous

Training terriers would require a world without squirrels

Or if they would not teach by taunting
but give sharp lessons to cold noses
like porcupines are kind enough to do

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Centrepiece

Audio Recordings / tagged Deception, Learning / January 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You don't see
that many bowls
of wax fruit anymore

Bananas and apples
and orange and grapes
in seasons when there were none

Supermarkets supersede
and three-year-olds have to learn
what they have to learn another way

In-Tuition

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Experience, Intuition, Learning / January 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Life is kindergarten grade school and uni
You get to play and you have to pay

Life is also learning to listen
to tickles and hunches
and hints and voices beyond the sphere of ear

The cost of this is only in the not

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Scrabble

Audio Recordings / tagged Competition, Fun, Games, Learning / August 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Success is a seven letter word

I have seen the lights
go on inthe eyes of the young
as lettrs and words go from fear to fun

And you play it like life, loose or tight

Small words
you can make on your own
bigger ones need
some help from your friends

Even the ones that pose as your foes

Young Dragon

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Experience, Learning / February 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young dragon walks
in direction of his breath
surprised by burning feet

Pere as Miner

Audio Recordings / tagged Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Education, Learning, Passion / May 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading until 2:00 am
rushing into class next morning
with every new idea
like a miner who'd just struck gold

“Pere” – Father Athol Murray, founder of Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan

Tabby La Rosa

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Cats, Education, Horses, Kittens, Learning / May 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Horses are cats
they just want to be
petted and loved

Although
when you neglect to do so
they are much more likely
to send you flying
than piss on your best Persian mat

That sort of thing is reserved for cats
and cats are not horses
and deeply resent being ridden

as every toddling two-year-old
in history (unable to read history)
will have to have etched
on the blank slates of their skin

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Christie flaman on Going ProMay 17, 2025
Old cowboy saying: Never a horse that couldn’t be rode, never a cowboy that couldn’t be thrown Thank you for…
Ken Christopher on Going ProMay 16, 2025
That’s pretty funny, and fun to read
Nancy Fierstien on Spring Came InMay 12, 2025
You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!
Nancy Fierstien on Remembering WhenMay 8, 2025
I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!
Ken Christopher on The Farmer’s DaughterMay 7, 2025
Very nice

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