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Tears of Sugar

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Funeral, Gratitude, Grief, Joy / September 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Tears of sugar tears of salt So beautiful or so sad and sometimes half and half Like stories at a wake - Oh how she made us laugh
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Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Grief / September 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
another one for Sharon Another poem today and you not there to share No answer to my whisper and no answer to my shout The box canyon's had the end blown out
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Motherin’ Up

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Coping, Grief / September 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sometimes you lose a cow sometimes you lose a calf You wrap the orphan in the dead calf's skin and the mother takes her in like kin Gold enough there for a country song It's a hurtin song - you can sing along About true love died and true love gone and foolin yourself just long enough to keep on keeping on
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Peace on the Prairie

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / September 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Cows, mostly quiet long as you don't steal their calf and don't brand their ass
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Cowboy in the City

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Nature / tagged Fear / September 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
A bull in his place is a creature of grace It is not the bull but the fear in the bull that endangers the china in the shop
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Leonard Toujours

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / September 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Leonard looking down Quel Mona Lisa visage Montreal looks up

Mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal, Quebec

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Missing Leonard

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Grief / September 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Leonard Cohen is gone He doesn't call, he doesn't write So huddle with me now fellow worshipers and weepers Huddle with me now round the poem and the song and listen for the breadcrumb and the hint of old perfume that speak of other ways to God that through the holes in Jesus and the goddess
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Goodnight Marilyn

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Elvis Presley, Heroes, Idols, James Dean, Jesus Christ, John Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Profit, Robert Kennedy / September 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Dyin ain't easy but it's a living Heroes will be expected to die young to keep their fans from growing old and will be well rewarded in unspendable gold If it’s sex you give then sex it pays so take along the two young Ks Though a frozen-instant Porsche crash could be worth a lot of cash And the Colonel smiles as money piles for haunting supermarket aisles But for biggest gross and longest run it’s still the cross at thirty one
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Marilyn Forever

Audio Recordings / tagged Marilyn Monroe / September 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Many men may pray to Mary but many more to Marilyn With Marilyn on calendar or windowsill time stands still and always will It is Marilyn who always forgives even when we forget to pray It is Marilyn who knows that we are all Misfits too fragile for the roles we are asked to play
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Marilyn in the Mountains

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Jasper, Marilyn Monroe / September 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sixty years after the release of the film returning again to The River of No Return Stepping again in a river that you can't step in twice sleeping again in a cabin by the cabin where you slept Listening again to the rapids that run over the same rocks and still chew at the roots of the same bent tree Listening for the whispers of the words you went away without saying the words we are all still waiting to hear
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