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An Invitation

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

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9-11 (September)

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News, Remembering / tagged Death, Questioning, Terrorism, Twin Towers / September 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

New York September
Two new holes in the sky
children ask why

25 Years Later

Horses are Dangerous Critters

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Danger, Luck / September 10, 2026 / 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 Reeves 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

Three Draft Horses

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Horses / September 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the ranch, ride before you walk
with big sister's brave behind my scared

Grandfather's big Clyde, top as wide as a table

The jackhammer hoofed plug at Al's in Idaho
while Dorsey gets to ride the silk-paced Arab
Chivalry is not dead, but it has a sore ass

May they all chomp
the hay of heaven while I flesh them out again

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Black Fly Summer

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Bugs, Insects, Pain, Pursuit / September 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Pint-sized piranhas
in syrup-thick swarms

Hell hath no fury like

Thanks Be To Cod

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Education, Health, Medicine, vitamins / September 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were only given
one vitamin in winter
adn none in the summer

In summer we had gardens and sun
in winter the oil of the liver of fish
and we got it by big spoons full
not in "Nothing going on here" capsules

The children of today hardly learn
with opportunities for wisdom wasted
unable to measure how good for you without the gauge of how bad it tasted

The Berries

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Childhood, Fruit, memories / September 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Big machines need room to turn
Grandfather's ten thousand trees
pride of the prairie give way to the plow
and we no longer visit our younger selves
purple-mouthed joyful among his Saskatoons

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Pincher Creek Alberta

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Community, Gathering, Sharing / September 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid June and Cowboy Poets back in town
voices hoarse from long winter's silence

And a thousand and more are here to hear
for the poets have been listening all year

Listening to the cattle and the coyotes
and the Northern Lights at nights

And they have been reminded
and being reminded they remember
and remembering they come here to remind

And just listening we remember
and unwind

Looking forward to the Trails End Gathering in High River this year

Cowboy Poetry

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / September 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This is not the poetry of pulling calves
in a cold wind and a foot or so of spring snow
with only a vest and a bottle of rye
to keep you dry

This
is the poetry
of that calf that would have died
standing on shaky legs
to drink warm milk
from the cow that would have died

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Alberta Air

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Canada / September 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Faith of a Mustard Field

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Faith, Humor / September 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove;
- Matthew 17:20

In the holy land of Saskatchewan
with the faith that's needed to be a farmer

And wanting a level place to grow his crop
he moved all the mountains to Alberta

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