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Headwind

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots / February 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Heading west for stampede city
doing two miles a minute through air
with a Chinook pouring over the mountains
and a rising feeling that you’ll never get there

You’re going slower and slower
over the rough wind-swept ground
and you don’t want to land in that field
and of course, you don’t dare turn around

The needle and your knees
are all three on empty, knocking
and if you had a car, you’d pull over
get out the old can, and start walking

But you’ve made it, you land, and you park
and you know there’s someone you’ve got to thank
when the boys put thirty two gallons
in a thirty two gallon tank

Image by flo51vogt from Pixabay

The Barnstormer and the Boy

Flight, Nostalgia, Pilots, Relationships, Remembering / February 24, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the little plane, just the pilot and me
up up up into the prairie air

Climbing and gliding and floating free
high above the county fair

The town looked small from way up there
but hell… it looked small from anywhere

It was the changing people into ants
that I loved the best and wanted again

Being on the wrong side of relative bigness
had been causing me a lot of pain

Photo by Martin Adams on Unsplash

Flat Earther Grade One

Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Education / February 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don’t be silly
the earth isn’t round it’s hilly

But you can’t tell a teacher
with a marble
as round and blue
as my eyes that knew
that what they saw was true

so she taught
and taught till I forgot
but the hills were never the same

Image by Kristin Baldwin from Pixabay

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Memories that Stick #8 Flypaper in the Kitchen

Cowboy Poetry, Farm, Ranch Life / February 22, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Farms have flies
and choose who dies
and children learn it young

Ancient kings
put heads on pikes
to warn of upstarts fate

but didn’t have to listen to
the buzzing while they ate

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Anvil

Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / February 21, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The anvil is a shape
that shapes all shapes

From the horseshoe
to the horseshoe nail
from the stirrup to the jail

With the mud left over
from the making of man
God made anvil

Handed it to him
and said - You do the rest

Photo by Jonathan Bean on Unsplash

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The Little Dutch Boy Writes Poetry

Poems about Poetry, Travel / February 20, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Only a drop or two
and only from time to time
but you can feel the weight
of the whole North Sea behind it

Image by luijk from Pixabay

Embracing Our Messengers

Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Angels, Devils, Guides / February 19, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The demons and daemons are dancing

and the head of every pin thick with angels

The dead are with us and the long dead too
with messages for the world
and messages for me and you

We are all guests at Blake’s
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
but do we say “I do”

2020 in the Crosshairs

News / tagged Injustice, War / February 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

May the
greedy who grasp
find the feeding in giving

and soldiers see mirrors
in all of their sights

Ode to Akhmatova

Poems about Poetry / tagged Anna Akhmatova, Russia / February 17, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

And what is this sweetness
you have brought to our table
The gnawing at the bone of our pain

The Day After Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / February 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Albert Huffstickler

Huff reading love poems
at a North Austin bookstore

The part I remember is

She wanted me to say
forever, and I thought - why not
I have said forever so many times before

But now dear Huff
now that you have stepped into forever

What will you say to all of them now

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