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150 Shades

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Dogs / July 31, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Roxy

A hundred and fifty shades
of County Grey on Georgian Bay

There's a dog now by the dock

Like other dogs
she does not see colours well

Unlike other dogs
she lives where beauty has no need

Farm Dog

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life / tagged Death, Dogs, Love, Loyalty / July 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Under The Porch

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Dogs, Unconditional Love / September 12, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about parents is they see you as they'd like you to be, and you ain't
The thing about teachers and coaches is they see you getting all those A's and scoring on every play, and you c'aunt
The thing about dogs is
Hey quit lickin' on my face you fool

For Victor

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Dogs, Friendship, Loss / July 13, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The only trick an old dog can learn is how to be an old dog
The minimum of turns one has to take before lying down for that nap
That a bark is as good as a chance for keeping squirrels off the deck
And that after all these years of standing by your standing friends you've likely earned their kneeling by you now.

Sharon’s dog and the author’s pal. Also greatly missed.

Coyote Eyes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Dogs / October 8, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is Austin
so a poet is running for mayor

We stop by a backyard party
in our neighborhood to meet
greet and hopefully support her

It is Austin
so there is an eight piece band
The Bob Katz and they’re very good

A dog with coyote eyes
comes up and wants to be my friend
so I make up
a Coyote Eyes, Coyote Eyes song
and sing it to her while the band
lights up Johnny Cash’s Ring of Fire

And she looks up at me with those coyote eyes
and we are very much in love
But I am late for a poetry reading
at the English Café and have to leave
so she goes and sits by another man
She is looking up at him with those coyote eyes
I think she is trying to tell him
about the song

Thanks to veera Batlu for sharing their work on Unsplash.

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Blue Eyed Boy

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Dogs / September 23, 2020 / 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

Covid Summer Camp

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Covid19, Dogs, Quarantine / July 21, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A dog, a tent
some flowers and a tree

And maybe you and me

Featuring Buddy, camp mascot and head of security, Edmonton 2020

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Woof

Family, Nature / tagged Covid19, Dogs / June 28, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With six people
in this house on covid lockdown

The dog gets so many walks

the clouds
have taken the shape of his face

Dog Whistlers

Haiku / tagged Country Music, Dogs / March 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Of course dogs whistle
mostly old country tunes
sad we can’t hear them

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Air Rights

Audio Recordings / tagged Dogs / March 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Scooter the dog, big and black
barking at the big balloons

Balloons with bright stripes
shaped like a house or Mickey Mouse

Some opined it was a perspective thing
And they looked like balls for fetch and play

It might have been a conservative disposition
That defined his territory as
This long, this wide
And all the way up to God

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