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Coyote Eyes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Dogs, Music / November 2, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is Austin
so a poet is running for mayor

We stop by a back yard party
in our neighbourhood to meet
greet and hopefully support her

It is Austin
so there is an eight piece band
The Bob Katz and they're very good

A dog with coyote eyes
comes up and wants to be my friend
so I make up
a Coyote Eyes, Coyote Eyes song
and sing it to her while the band
lights up Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire

and she looks up at me with those coyote eyes
and we are very much in love
but I am late for a poetry reading
at the English Café and have to leave
so she goes and sits by another man
She is looking up at him with those coyote eyes
I think she is trying to tell him
about the song

On That Note

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Music / June 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Classical music fills the car
as we home from the airport in traffic

Our host is from Bulgaria
he plays the trombone, his wife the violin
sometimes they tour, sometimes he drives cab
He loves Austin, he loves his wife

Ahead and all around drivers speed and weave

I wonder what they're listening to

Mountain Music

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Music / June 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Picking on the Banjo

Audio Recordings / tagged Music / June 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I pick on a banjo
it's like a bully pickin on you
for your lunch money

In high school I tortured a trumpet
hitting the high notes and low
with many a glancing blow

While Johnny's boy, damn his hide
could pick up any instrument

Didn't have to think or practice
or anything
the music just told him
where to put his fingers

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Little Brown Jug

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Music / June 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father had three sons
and taught them all
how to tie a grain sack, how to cut a calf
how to talk to a horse you walked up behind
so you wouldn't get kicked or killed
Good things to know
but none of us is working cattle now
He played a mean harmonica
would that he would have taught us that

One of author’s father’s favorite tunes. Here done by Glenn Miller

Sunday Morning at the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Faith, Music / June 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Too far to ride
tired horses to church
God's sun warm
on the kitchen's south wall
Guitar and fiddle
with harmonica offstage

Choir and congregation
on straw bale pews

Little brown jug
sounding like a hymn

Earthworm Dance

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Music, Spring / June 1, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uphill Downhill Blues

Audio Recordings / tagged Guilt, Music, Sadness / March 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uphill Downhill Blues

You play em because you got em
but when you play em you lose em
- Buddy Guy
Ain't saying you can't get the blues
for what you have done to give folks theirs
But them ain't the blues you can sing away

Inspiration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Inspiration, Music / December 17, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I've looked at clouds from both sides now - Joni Mitchell

Saskatchewan girl Joni
with only sky for view
riding a tractor
all the long way
to the end of the field
and back again - all day

Little Brown Jug

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Music / June 20, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father had three sons
and taught them all
how to tie a grain sack, how to cut a calf how to talk to a horse you walked up behind so you wouldn't get kicked or killed
Good things to know
but none of us is working cattle now
He played a mean harmonica
would that he would have taught us that

One of author’s father’s favorite tunes. Here done by Glenn Miller

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