Audio Recordings – Page 55 – Neil Meili

Neil Meili

Zen Cowboy Poet & Freelance Philosopher

Skip to content

Home
Contact
Neil’s Books
Poems
Kind Words
A Neil a Day Poems

Category: Audio Recordings

Oh So Simple Then

Audio Recordings, Family, Haiku, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Play / June 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh so simple then
though the children grew older
their games never did

Author’s mother with her siblings circa 1925

Ethics Back Then

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Education / June 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Work ethic was the job
of the father to model and teach

All other ethics
and heaven's rewards
were mother's to model and preach

Round Tables

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Communication, Father / June 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

He loved his neighbours, but not out loud
(Only by default could we tell if he was proud men did not hug their friends or children then)

There were no women in the bar
and all the tables round and small
heavy with ashtray and pilsner draft
where they talked code til closing time

Politics of any stripe meant you are my brother
The weather, whatever the weather meant I love you too

Lilac Time

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Experience, Flowers, Memory, Scent / June 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The nostrils of the young
though keen
receive but half a scent

How many years
til it be doubled by memory

As more words than one
are needed to make rhyme

1 Reply

Tiger Lilies

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Flowers / June 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tiger lilies roar
as Austin heat increases
oak tree gifts its shade

Petals on the Road

Audio Recordings, Haiku / June 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Petals on the Road
slow down friend the life you save
may just be a bride's

1 Reply

Spring is Fleet of Foot

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Travel / tagged Seasons / June 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spring is fleet of foot
those who pursue it northward
outrun summer's gifts

Y’Alzheimers

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Alzheimers/Dementia, Humor / June 11, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Getting old
and forgetting
that the South
lost the war

Turtle Boots

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry / tagged Humor / June 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I bought a pair of boots one time
made from an old sea turtle’s hide
The prettiest boots you ever saw
but a little bit tight along the side

I figured it would only take a while
to break these babies in just right
and in the meantime at least I’d have
the pleasure of taking them off at night

Now a hundred years don’t seem long
to an old sea turtle, or his next of kin
but it appeared it was gonna take that long
to break those miserable damn boots in

I tried everything to ease that constant pain
I soaked ‘em, I oiled ‘em, I bent ‘em, I boiled ‘em
If anyone had suggestions, no matter how wild
I got out those boots and sure enough tried ‘em

But those son of a guns just continued to pinch
I couldn’t get them to move 1/16th of an inch
wild thoughts of destruction started filling my day
but the boots were too pretty I’d just give them away

I gave them to my younger brother first
by logic his feet should be smaller you see
but after a month or so he gave them back and said he just couldn’t accept all that charity

So I gave them away to friend after friend
but I guess gratitude ain’t what it used to be
the results were always the same in the end
I got those turtle boots back, but I mostly lost
the friend

and every time I got them back
I’d put them on and wear them a while
and never could figure how one pair of boots
could cause so much pain
and still have so much style

But I gave them at last to a chiropractor
down in Texas
and I didn’t get ‘em back
so I expect he’s got ‘em beat

because if he can’t adjust those boots
he can always adjust his feet

Energy on the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / June 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Red Bull
was a Hereford not a drink

They could
still get you moving fast
when they pawed the ground

Post navigation

← Older posts

Newer posts →

Search

Neil’s Latest Book Available in Paperback and Large Print Edition though Amazon worldwide

Social

View zencowboypoet’s profile on Facebook
View @meilineil’s profile on Twitter
View neilmeili’s profile on Instagram

Want More Poetry? Sign Up Here.

Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026
Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
LeoraLawrence Porter on Sacred DanceJanuary 18, 2026
Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…
barbara joy on MessagesJanuary 16, 2026
profound
Eda Lishman on For the PoetryJanuary 7, 2026
Neil: what a daily gentlre reminder ...this broight me many memories of walking out into the open prairie searching for…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

Audio Recordings
Cattle
Cowboy Poetry
Cows
Environment
Family
Farm
Flight
Haiku
Limerick
Manure
Nature
News
Nostalgia
Personal Growth
Pilots
Poems about Poetry
Ranch Life
Relationships
Remembering
String Too Short To Save
Travel
Uncategorized

Tags

Aboriginal Aging Alcohol Art Art & Artists Autumn Beauty Birds Childhood Communication Connection Covid19 Death Dogs Dreams Faith Family Fear First Nations Friendship Gratitude Grief Healing Hope Horses Humor Loss Love Mother Music Nature Perspective Poetry Prairie Psychology Ranch Life Regret Religion sensuality Solitude Spring Voice Dialogue War Winter Wisdom

©2015 Neil Meili. All Right Reserved.

Theme Designed By ThemeVan | Powered by WordPress

Loading Comments...

Write a Comment...

Email

Name

Website