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Seenery

Uncategorized / November 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Small Town Grade Seven

Uncategorized / August 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In a town of six or seven hundred
you get a cross section of the country

One classmate's father's suicide 
with shotgun spattered walls

One boy, my age, drowned
in an upturned truck in a muddy ditch

One with leukaemia, white as the snow

One redhead, Leslie French, as beautiful and mysterious as the language

One blonde, Shirlely Long, to long for

She's only interested in grade 9 boys

One bruised heart

Not yet hard enough to be broken
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Long May She Light

Uncategorized / tagged Politics / November 6, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Yes Means Yes

Uncategorized / September 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Yes Means Yes
In Norse tradition
First man created was Ask
Remember boys please

Sölvesborg, Sweden – Sculpture “Ask och Embla” (Ask and Embla) by Stig Blomberg

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Lenses

Uncategorized / tagged Dream, Perspective / May 24, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Wanted this to be
a microscope morning
nothing near as big as me

It soon turned telescope
giants everywhere to see

Back to bed with periscope
to scan the roughing sea
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All the Isms that Is

Uncategorized / May 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Most all isms start with fire
though many end in ashes

Pity then for cousin Pragmat
born in cold and growing colder
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The Wheel Deal

Uncategorized / May 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The wheel 
alone is nothing more
than a round rock rolling down a hill

The humble axle
still center of hurricane and man
is what makes the worlds go round

Image by Matthias Böckel from Pixabay

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Spring in Moose Jaw

Farm, Ranch Life, Uncategorized / tagged Weather / May 4, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In the city
retired farmers still watch
the weather

In greening front yards
wooden ducks nailed to
white posts

Wings spinning backwards

Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, where the author’s parents, and many other ranchers and farmer couples make their home in their retirement.

If you are looking for a duck whirligig check here

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Easter Saturday

Uncategorized / tagged Christ, Crucifiction / April 11, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The impossible has happened
(silence)
The impossible is about to happen
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Spring is Spring

Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Uncategorized / March 13, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
cherry blossom scent
fuelled ancient haiku flame
lilac does the same
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