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Tag Archives: Prairie Life

The Elevator

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Crops, Grain, Prairie Life / August 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Seed filled erection
proud on the prairie
when the west was young

Picture by Ron Dormer. Available for viewing and purchase in the restaurant at Temple Gardens Hotel & Spa in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

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After the Christmas Party

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Blizzard, Prairie Life, Survival / December 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Anitfreeze or whisky
too much or too little you're in trouble

This is the scene that you would see
if the swirling snow would let you 

A young man in an old Ford truck
heading West at three miles an hour

Driver's window open arm extended full length
Mittened hand holding twelve volt spotlight
beam groping the ridge along the graveled lane

Two feet from death on one side
ten on the other, and happy
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The Turkey Shoot

Audio Recordings / tagged Learning, Prairie Life / October 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Small town Saskatchewan
raising money for the curling rink

Targets fifty feet away
and old bent-sight 22's to shoot

The trick to bringing a turkey home
was not how well at the bullseye shot
but how fast you learned that life
is sometimes

three inches down

and two to the left of where you aim
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Train Day

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Courval, Ghost Town, Prairie Life, Saskatchewan, Train Day, Trains / May 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Once a week, once a week
they came from all around, all around
and swelled, and swelled
the size of our young town

And the chugging grew, and the chugging grew
and the chugging grew, and the whistle blew
and all was new, and the children knew

But now the lines are down, all down
old folks and old dogs in the town
not a child nor a pup, nor a pup
and not one elevator up
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