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Where News is News

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, News, Ranch Life / tagged NASA, Small Town, Space Travel / August 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On April 16th 1972
Apollo 16 blasted off
for a landing on the moon

While on a farm
just outside Coderre Saskatchewan
a two headed calf was being born

For 50 miles
in all directions
one was bigger news than the other

Small Town Grief

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Childhood, Grief, Pespective / August 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When a boy in our school died
from a word we could say but not spell
It was the only death to count

There was no TV to diminish by compare
and spread our grief so thin
it would not cover him

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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

Beware

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Justice, Law, Trump / June 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Call it a witch hunt
but don't call it off just yet
there might be a witch

The Donald arraigned – again

What Charles Can’t Say Anymore

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Coronation, King Charles, Leadership, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Family / May 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The planet it warming
the rain forest is burning
much modern architecture sucks

When you get to be the king
you no longer get to do your thing
at least not the way you used to do it

Unlike his mom he can't just wear
a suit of yellow and flower of blue
to show Ukraine that his heart is there

They say his mother never set a foot wrong

This may be a little too much to expect
perhaps he will have to get by remembering
the worlds of his mentor Laurens van Der Post

"If I look after the footsteps, and lengthen my stride, the miles will take care of themselves"

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The Canon of Fodder

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Death, Sacrifice, War / April 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

And ain't every fodder
of every cannon
dying for someone else's sins

Sweet Jesus as their model

Dreams of Safety

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Hope, Identity, War / April 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Over the wall
fires are burning
and black clouds rolling

Out of black cloud rolling
a rainbow beaming

Out of rainbow beaming
raindrops falling

Each drop to its colour
clinging

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Man Upright

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth / tagged Death, evolution, Hope, Kindness, War / March 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Carpet bombings in Ukraine
Concentration camps in China
Mass shooting du jour in the USA

Who would blame you for believing
that man is a natural miserable critter
and any decency the rare exception

If you want to spit out that cactus turd
try starting out each day with a search
for someone doing something kind
even if it has to be you

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Limerick for Luhansk

Audio Recordings, Limerick, News / tagged Destruction, Fear, Grief, Russia, Solidarity, Ukraine, War / March 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Luhansk is a Ukrainian city currently occupied by Russia

There was a man a long year at war
where all about lay tattered and tore

He said to his wife
This is no kind of life

But let’s huddle together once more

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