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Word Divisions

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication, Connection, Optimism / October 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can know your native language
and still feel all alone
as pilots talk to pilots
in a code that's all their own

Yet not even one to one
can they share that love of air
or touch the other's feelings
of the fear and beauty there

Sailors talk to sailors
of wind and sail and rope
of nights upon the ocean
of courage and of hope

Yet the words just can't convey
their love of sea and air
nor touch the other's feelings
of the fear and beauty there

And though cowboys talk to cowboys
in a special kind of drawl
there's still a space between them
the words can't tell at all

Not those nights of cold and stars
with coyotes on the air
nor the call of open spaces
with the fear and beauty there

Watch as lovers talk to lovers
in ways only two can share
as they build between them
a framework light and fair

While a web that's spun of maybes
hangs so fragile in the air
that one false word can shatter
into pain, the beauty there

And yet

There are still some crazy poets
out riding hatless in the sun
still trying to do the very thing
we all know can't be done

Still Quioting for a language
that can speak to everyone

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Outdigenous

Audio Recordings / tagged :anguage, Communication, Culture, First Nations, Indigenous Peoples, Loss, Native American / September 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A dog is not a dog
in languages where it is
a wolf and no man's friend

Every language has, or had
words that do not translate to others

Seven hundred languages in Australia
before English discovered them to death

How many in the Americas, many to few
their words for mourning not here for this poem

Aboriginal pictograph, Kakadu National Park, Arnhem Land, Australia

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Train to Toronto

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Communication, English, French, Humor / July 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bi-jovial porter
ties two cultures
with language of laughter

The Other Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Capacity, Communication, Generosity / May 31, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Kim Heinrich

No need to ask
the depth of their well

What they say
is not how you'll tell

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Valentines

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Appreciation, Communication, Love, Writing / February 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every Saint Valentine's Day
one should write a poem
to their beloved

Not just to remind them
how lovely they are
And your burning desire
to show it

But also how lucky you are
to know that you know it

Echo

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Complaining / February 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Kvetching in a canyon
reverbles off the rocks

If the canyon's a no-ender
it will not return to sender

Just echo and echo away
souring someone else's Sabbath

AI is Made of Us

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Communication, Future, Teaching, Technology / January 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The messages
we give our children
shape the world to come

Messages

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Connetion / January 16, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When someone in camp could see
what the scout saw twenty hills away

When a bushmen hunting party
brings down an eland in the Kalahari
and those at home begin building
their small fire larger for the cooking

When Tesla knew the moment
his mother back in Europe died
new ideas of electricity come to life

Somewhere out there in this moment
there may be messages for you
but who and what are you tuning to

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Cowversations

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Communication, Humor / November 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One of the reasons I got out of ranching
was the long drought of good conversation

Cowhands
true to their fame are men of few words

Horses ain't bad
they will at least point their ears and pretend

But cows, it was the cows that did it
how they'd saucer eye like listening
while you chewed them out in detail
about all the dumb things that they'd done

Turn away to ruminate upon the lesson
and two days later kick you for no reason

Conversations with Horses

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Animals, Communication / November 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I never had a horse that talked to me
like Mister Ed on sixties TV

If I had I might have learned a lot

I did talk to them of course
but mostly by knee and rein and spur
and sometimes thank you for a job well done

As for messages for me, I can only imagine
- or count the number of times bucked off

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Anonymous on FallingOctober 4, 2026
Beautiful
Sandi Hebley on Word DivisionsOctober 1, 2026
Thank you, crazy poet!
Sandi Hebley on Qu’Appelle and ESLSeptember 29, 2026
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Sandi Hebley on OutdigenousSeptember 28, 2026
Wow!
Sandi Hebley on My Uncle Shot My DogSeptember 27, 2026
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