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Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Wisdom Ism

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Learning / February 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If your parents didn't give you smart
don't lose heart

Just eat your spinach
and peel your eyes
there may still be time for wise

Buddy Training

Audio Recordings / tagged Dogs, Experience, Learning, Pain / February 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Experience is a hard teacher.
She gives the test first, the lesson after - Anonymous

Training terriers would require a world without squirrels

Or if they would not teach by taunting
but give sharp lessons to cold noses
like porcupines are kind enough to do

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Dog Years

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, pets / February 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The dog
grows old beside us

Same distance
at a greater pace

And teaches us by not
giving it much thought

Image by z75217 from Pixabay

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Through Chicken Wire Darkly

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Faith, Fear, Hope, Literature, War, Xenophobia / February 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The bounding beauty of foxes
if mostly lost on the housers of hens

A race any race
has a beauty in its face
seldom seen through crosshairs
or the fear of being seen through them

Kits and kittens give some hope
and reading the love bits of holy books
and the poetry of poets not named Poe

Look Not Too Deep in Fairy Tales

Audio Recordings, Relationships / February 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stepmothers mean are often seen
and jealous sisters all too true

There are princes who
have never seen a castle
you may find or may find you

though seldom will
you lose a perfect fitting shoe

Image by Ales Krivec from Pixabay

A Villanelle to Marry Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Choice, Conflict, Love / February 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In seeking love at any price
pretending war in love is fair
a villanelle will not suffice

Ignoring all old sage advice
will not wisely get you there
in seeking love at any price

Sun Tsu’s arts don’t read twice
in plotting how to make a pair
a villanelle will not suffice

Do not farm for thrown rice
with no paddy pure to share
in seeking love at any price

For wafting wiles of scented spice
to lure your quarry to your lair
a villanelle will not suffice

Hiding the plot with veil of nice
will not a loving home prepare
in seeking love at any price
a villanelle will not suffice

Shelter

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Chaos, Forgiveness, Healing, Love, Survival, Uncertainty, War / February 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We parked our souls in the shade of the chaos - Bill Holm

Tho around and within us din
we forgave each stumbling sin
'kissed it well' the oft barked shin

and warmed each other in the bed
still the envy of the dead

February

Audio Recordings, Environment, Poems about Poetry / tagged Optimism, Weather, Winter / February 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

February is the cruelest month
even if T.S. Eliot said it was April

Eliot wasn't from Saskatchewan
where February sits halfway between
winter's come and it ain't ever going to leave

It is also Valentines and Mandela free
so thinking about love will always help a lot
and remembering it's the shortest month we've got

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A Penny Not Saved

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Abraham Lincoln / February 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The penny is gone
no way Honest Abe could face
what's going on now

A Long Way From Town

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Sky, Solitude, Stars / February 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This summer
I hope to get back to the farm

turn out the yard lights
in the dark of the moon
and look up in four-year-old awe

with a smile
the Milky Way will remember

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Ken Christopher on Buddy TrainingFebruary 19, 2025
Yep, tough love
Kimberly Heinrich on Dog YearsFebruary 18, 2025
You could not possibly have known that today was the day that I had to have my beloved dog euthanized.…
Barbara Joy Bruce on FebruaryFebruary 13, 2025
love it! Thanks, Neil!
Ken Christopher on Ancestry . BarnFebruary 7, 2025
You bet; nice one Neil
Barb on Her Mother Sings to VioletsFebruary 2, 2025
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