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Time-Lapse Prairie

Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / June 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Clouds
chase shadows
across the hide of hills

Blues
of light and dark
mix in palate ponds

Two antelope
enger from the left and gone

Through Eclipse Glasses Darkly

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged awareness, Perspective / April 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How you can shut a door
and open it again to a different view

How if you never noticed
what was on the other side before
you may not notice now

Ageism

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Aging, Perspective, Respect, Youth / March 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Under the ancient oak
young bluebonnets bloom

Neither judging the other
as too young to know or old to act

Saskatchewan from the Skies

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Pilots, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Perspective, River / July 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Man lays down grids
while nature smiles in wander

This is hard to see from a tractor
but your neighbour Wally has a plane

It won't look the same below again

Light

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Perspective / April 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about light
is that it never gets tired

Three million years at the speed of itself
from that star to here
without a slow day or a stop to complain

On the days that I remember
things move pretty well as well

Kaleidoscope

Audio Recordings / tagged Beauty, Perspective, Vision / March 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Having enough
vision in my left eye
to see colour and light
I'll install a kaleidoscope
and cover it with a pink patch

Then when shaking my head
about the world my right
and should be right is seeing
I can but lift the patch and wow

Narcissus in the West

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Perspective / November 29, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Of course the view is all about you
The loneliness of panoramic plains
The big-small making mountains
It's still a mirror even if you're looking through

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What Hans Christian Andersen Forgot

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Knowledge, Perspective, Shame / June 27, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The emperor indeed has no clothes
but then again neither have we

It was much the same with Adam and Eve

The bible does not say who was the first to point

Click here to read Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

Unity Sight

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged First Nations, Native Americans, Peace, Perspective / June 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poem inspired by a conversation with the artist Al Manybears

Vortextual

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / April 25, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing on the prairie
long enough to know

That the middle of nowhere
is also
the centre of everywhere

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