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Remembrance Day Coming Up A Storm

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Armistice Day, Death, Grief, Mourning, Peace, Sacrifice, Soldiers, Veterans, War / November 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The wind dries
tears upon the cheeks
while flags go clapping on

Leaves & petals
dance on wreaths
leaning on the cenotaph

And is that
whisling that we hear
a tune for less war or more

Prairie Boys

Audio Recordings / tagged Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Travel, Veterans, War / November 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Peaceful in a non-committal way
more likely to be killed by machinery
than a fellow human being

If you wanted to see a war
you would have to travel across
a great deal of land and more sea

Careful always with your cash
you would not purchase a return ticket

Going off to war – North West Mounted Police Division – Expanse, Saskatchewan, 1915

Wreaths

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Armistice Day, Conflict, Death, Mourning, Remembrance Day, Sacrifice, Veterans, War / November 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Another wreath on the cenotaph
honors the fallen in wars of the past

Black bordered envelopes
are delivered much quicker now

So let us include in our mourning
those who fell this morning
those who are falling right now
and those before your reading this

Include the weavers
of circles of roses and thorns
fingers bloody in their hurrying
trying, though they can’t, to keep up

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Prairie Boys

Audio Recordings / tagged Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, Veterans, War / November 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Going off to war – North West Mounted Police Division – Expanse, Saskatchewan 1915

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Iudita Harlan on Longing for FamilyNovember 26, 2025
Neil Lovely poem. Sending love to you and Darcy. Iudita
Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

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