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Karolina

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Greece, Independence / September 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Artist Laureate of Mykanos
her adopted town floats above the canvas

Windmills dance on the hills
church domes and white houses
rebound light across the narrow lanes

Ships bob on the bluest water
watched by pink pelican and faithful dog

In her pictures handsome Greek men
work the boats and bars

Forty years from Boston town
she knows too much of these men
but the island nights get cold

Her art raised their two children

–it cost a lot

but to marry one of these
patriarchetypical sons of pirates
would have cost more soul
than this artist or her art would pay

Read more about Karolina of Mykonos

Widows

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Death, Greece, Survivors, Tradition, War / September 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Greece is a land of widows
black dresses with brooms on empty stairs
This comes from ten thousand years of wars

Greece is a land of proud and arrogant men
This comes from lives of great danger
and the supply and demands
of ten thousand years
of widows

Bad Moon Rising

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Grief / September 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Coyote howls past the moon
Anger, sorrow, copper, where?

Written after the death of dear friend Copper Love, with thanks to her family for allowing us to share one of Copper’s paintings. To see more of Copper’s art click here

Blue Moon Blues

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Grief / August 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Many a moon I have howled
with the she-wolves of this world
and many of them not here to howl

Last night’s blue supermoon – a phenomenon that won’t occur again until 2037

Sky and Air

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships / August 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the place where you were born
like the first look
into your mother’s eyes were the skies

The size color and cut of particles of dust

Mists rising where the mists rise
and the angles of reflection and refraction

Sunrises noons and sunsets
of your youth and of your longing

You can go home again

One More for Kenny

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Grief, Separation / August 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were Siamese cousins
joined at the hip

So adept we never stepped
on each others toes

God the great and clumsy surgeon
has divided us

Wearing the right clothes
the scar doesn’t show
but people sometimes wonder
why I walk in circles

Playing Old 78s at the Nursing Home

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Alzheimers, Dementia, Forgetting, Memory / August 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Aunt Myrtle
skips a groove from time to time

The needle, still diamond sharp
plays 1952 for a round or two

Then the niceness of the people here
Grandpa's bad temper, and the size of the long kitchen at the farm

The sweetness of her husband
sometimes here and sometimes gone
and where is he now?

Reminded that he died some years ago with quick humour still intact, replies
That would explain why he never comes to visit

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Lea

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged jokes, memories, Small Town / July 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you walked west from your home
down the main street to the heart of Coderre
a car driving in from the country
could slip up silently behind you

A quick blast of the horn
and your knees would collapse
and you’d drop like a stone

Good sport in a small town

If you were walking down that street today
and I was driving behind
I would be sorely tempted to do it again
but this time I would want to catch you

Little Brown Jug

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Music / July 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father had three sons

and taught them all
how to tie a grain sack, how to cut a calf
how to talk to a horse you walked up behind so you wouldn't get kicked or killed

Good things to know
but none of us is working cattle now

He played a mean harmonica
would that he would have taught us that

One of author’s father’s favorite tunes. Here done by Glenn Miller

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Good Fences Make Good Memories

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / July 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Slow driving west
down Saskatchewan 363

Paved now
but mud and gravel
50 years ago when Dad & Wally
came over from the home place
to help me build 14 miles of fence

Half a mile from the old Fort Walsh trail
where the Mounties hauled supplies
for a starving Sitting Bull

A lot of history
and a damn good fence
still standing, still stretching
like time, and our time together

Smooth and endless
over the soft rolling hills

From this distance
you can’t see the barbs in the wire

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