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Question to Furrow the Brow

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / June 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How can you take
the boy out of the farm
out of the boy
and why would you try

Back Again to Never Left

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood / June 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A happy childhood can't be cured
- Hortense Calisher

And there we were are there
boy and dog and endless hills
and night
and home to a door never locked

Author’s boyhood home

Cemeteries Not Few

Audio Recordings / tagged Connection, Death, Grave, Mourning / June 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cemeteries not few
are covered in grasses

How strange how seldom
we walk barefoot there

Most Funeral Pews

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Love, Mourning, Regret / June 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Most funeral pews are filled
with shoulda said I Love You more

while those who said it every day
wish for more days to have said it

but with no wish to change pews
with those who never said it

Getting Hot Around Here

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Hype, Politics / June 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Attack is the new connect

Amygdala
has moved to the front of the brain

Fox shrugs off a billion-dollar hit
and goes right back to shovelling coal

The Lesson

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News, Personal Growth / tagged Ego, Hubris / June 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You think you are cool
you will meet someone cooler
titanic lesson

Egodrive

Audio Recordings / tagged Ego, Hubris, Pride / June 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Beware the man of one book
and more so if he wrote it

And if you’re on an ego trip
check to see if you’re the driver

This advice I give for free
since mostly I’m giving it to me

The Road Less Re-travelled

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Remembering / tagged Forgiveness, Regret / June 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Giving up hope for a better past
has been recommended by many
for forgiveness and for happiness

Easy enough to say when the sun
is shining on the road you're on
but what of the dark and rainy nights
with the wipers scratching the glass
what of sleepless photo albums rich
with pictures that you didn't take

Happiness is fine for givers of advice
for those of all of us flipping pages
some forgiveness would be very nice

The Albums

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Family / June 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mother's shrinkage was marked by domicile

House, apartment, retirement and nursing home
shedding at each move, furniture, china, and art
except for, and never, the old photo albums
heavy in padded leather brown and green

Each visit when conversation stuttered to a stall
(Religion all but Baptist drowned and what use is weather without crops)
out would come the albums
and in we all would dive
for pennies bright and shiny
at the bottom of the pool

Here's one from 1958
How young the queen looked then

Roses in My Rear View Mirror

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / June 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(and a few bluebonnets too)

There's a family always laughing
There are girls and they're all smiling

There's a collie dog a roaming
chasing gophers down their holes

There's a ranch with grass all greening fifteen minutes after rain

Maybe you can go home again

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