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Pulling Pipe

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Community, Heroes, Struggle, Work / September 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Trouble down the well
and me, my dad and my brothers
are Texas roughnecks

pulling, spinning and stacking pipe
pipe and rod and "Careful dammit!
If you drop that rod the well is shot"

We're Red Adair, fighting a fire
we're wet and muddy and cold and made
and we've got to get it done by dark

The gold down there's not black but red
and iron rich sea hiding away
from the pulling power of the prairie sun

Looking back fifty years from a poet's perch

I pull, spin and stack
metaphor and meaining

Back then it was just men
doing what they had to do

and white-faced cattle waiting

Lost Octopus

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Loneliness, Pain, Struggle / July 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh how we flail
when we're hurt and unheard

Surely we can find
somewhere anywhere to connect

One listening friend would be great
and, better yet, two or four or eight

Hope

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Adversity, Hope, Optimism, Struggle, Tenacity / April 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

World hard and harder
walls and paths build
stone by stone
in the cracks - flowers

Fear piled on pain
stone paths merge
with rock wall rise
in the cracks - flowers

Hard days and hard nights
path of pain joins wall of fear
in the cracks - flowers

Countries

Travel / tagged Struggle / March 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Texas and Canada both born of push and pain
Like provinces and states will never be
Cut as they were along the dotted lines of cesarean birth

The Republic of Texas was a sovereign nation in North America that existed from October 2, 1835, to February 19, 1846

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Love it! “The cost of this is only in the not.”
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Yes, the Mystery is what keeps it exciting
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Yep, the sleigh got us to town on train day and me to school every day, the poem is a…
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So simple, so captivating! Nice Neil to give me the feel :) Murray A
Ken Christopher on John DeereDecember 21, 2024
Love it❤️

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