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GOD / DOG / MIRROR

Audio Recordings / tagged Afterlife, Companionship, Connection, Death, pets / May 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Kenny Wirges

God is Dog in a mirrror
Dog is God in a mirror

Kenny had always
a dog at his side

Now he lives in that space
between mirrors
with one on either side

Dogs and Boys

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Companionship, Connection, Dogs, Love, pets / May 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty thousand years
they walked the plains together

The boy did not know that
The dog did not know that

Or did they

Photo of author’s Uncle Bruce with Pepper circa 1928

Never Alone

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Companionship, Literature / January 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You need never sleep alone
if there's room in your bed for a book

Dickinson might have had Emerson

Blue-Eyed Boy

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Companionship, Dogs, Freedom, Play, Prairie / May 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Blue-eyed boy
blasts off from breakfast
like a quail on a rail

Collie dog leaps on board
and they’re off across the prairie
barely touching the tops of hills

Sun gives warmth or cloud gives shade
all depending on his whim
birds and rocks and swaying grass
everything living embraces him

Burrs don’t stick and thorns don’t prick
even fences, joining in the play
happily turn their barbs away

Floating along on the wings of four
not long now till they slam that door

Author, about age 4, on the Saskatchewan ranch

Retreats and Retreats

Audio Recordings / tagged Companionship, Hermit, Hiding, Searching, Solitude, Spirituality / April 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One
has chosen
his hut to be closer to God

One to be farther from man

I hope
the second has a dog
so neither man will be alone

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Sandi Hebley on Timmy’s Down the WellMay 29, 2026
🤗 Love this!
Barb on Dog WhistlersMay 26, 2026
That is an amazing, precious picture! So dear.
Anonymous on WisdomMay 17, 2026
🤗 Very wise and true.
Sandi Hebley on School ReunionMay 16, 2026
Live it! I’m one immune to kryptonite— not Superman,
Anonymous on School ReunionMay 16, 2026
Love it!

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