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An Invitation

Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Old Injuries

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / November 25, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Living with what didn't kill you outright Sayings like it makes you stronger little comfort in the morning
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Going Pro

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Practice / November 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
At thirteen I was a rodeo pro cause I was getting paid to ride A farmer south of Mossbank had a two-year-old he wanted rode and I would ride three hours a week Didn’t want a saddle on one so young so the mare and I would play a game She would run fast and stop faster and I would end up on the ground and get up and on and do it again Since I am getting paid by the hour not seconds staying on she gets to have her horse-laugh fun while I polish life-skills of tuck and roll
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Thrown

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / November 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You know that old expression You threw me when you said that Well, you threw me when you said that I was on a quarter horse once turning a barrel like only a quarter horse can when the cinch broke Cetrifugally flung, I hun a long moment speeding lateral in the air before I remembered how to roll up and hit the ground without being hurt too bad You really threw me when you said that I didn't have time to remember to roll
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For Mary Who Loves Horses

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Boundries / November 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I have ridden the fence line without believing in fences I have been one with the movement of horse the strength and speed of horse the grace of horse and the soul of horse I have been one with the wind and the high rolling hills and the sky I have stepped down with my hands filled with staples and pliers For the welfare of cattle and neighbours who still have need of believing in fences
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Horses are Dangerous Critters

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Death, Horses, Luck / November 21, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Make no mistake every ride you are taking reins and your life in your hands Who can forget Bonnie Blue Butler breaking hearts of Scarlett and Rhett Christopher Reeve thrown like kryptonite or Maxentius thrown and drowned in the Tiber And the time Pinto Pete steps in a prairie badger hole while running full speed down the hill and ass over teakettle does a full forward flip ending up standing, me beside him reins in hand Sometimes you live to write the poem sometimes someone else will have to do it for you
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Herding Poems

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / November 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Herding Poems (for Patricia) My father had sons to help him herd the cows I have a daughter to help me herd the poems He had ten thousand acres we have all the acres of the world His won ribbons at the feeder show ours, when entered, won some prizes too He would stand for hours to watch them feeding and grown fat I sometimes get out a book and do just that
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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
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Thelma and Louise on Garden Tractors

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Pathos, Politics, Religion, Women's rights / November 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Thelma and Louise on garden tractors heading for the irrigation ditch Thelma and Louise tired of the praying at and preying on are running from the suburbs hell bent for leather Running from the suburbs with a posse of protestants hot on their tails gun racks on their riding mowers big iron on their hips firing commandments and amendments with fifty shot clips We’ve seen the movie before, we know how it ends
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Paper Training Donald Trump

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Politics / November 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Did you see him at the door the other night whimpering to be let back in again He knows he’s been a bad dog everybody knows he’s been a bad dog but look at those sad eyes - he’ll be good
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Monarchs All A Flutter

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Butterflies, Butterfly / November 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I wonder what that papillon is on Reeling from too many sips of purple flower wine I feel fine, I feel fine but does anyone here know the way to Mexico
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