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New Hay

Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Harvest / September 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The scent of hay
thrown upward in the cutting

Too rich and heavy to remain aloft
falls back to lie among its fallen friends

Walk shuffling small feet through it
and it lifts again in clouds to nostrils

Breathed in sweet particles remain
I do believe … there’s some there yet

Photo by Boba Jovanovic on Unsplash

Learning from Grandparents

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Relationships / tagged Family, grandparents, Grandparents Day / September 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

From my Swiss grandfather
who dreamed and grew a prairie Eden
combining Europe and Hy-Brasil
I learned the impossible is possible

From my English grandmother
I learned that niceness is very nice
but you can leave feeling empty
except for cookies and milk

From my father’s mother
and my mother’s father
I learned that early death
is a form of theft

Hy-Brasil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasil_(mythical_island)

Putin on the Ritz

String Too Short To Save / September 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Communism is dead
the day the leader
gets two crusts of bread

Edible Books

Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry / tagged Literature, reading / September 6, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up
of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all
my life. - Giorgos Seferis

A hut may be a granary, a mansion a desert

Where are the books piled Dagwood deep
Where does your mother read you to sleep

Where do the mangos of the South
and the spices of the East mix in feast

Image by Nino Carè from Pixabay

Good Advice

Cowboy Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / September 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whenever anything got broke or lost
Kim’s mother would always say:
Don’t cry over anything that can’t cry over you

Which is a good thing to remember
when your life becomes a country song
and your dog, and your wife
and your truck are gone

Your dog will miss you right away
and cry with the coyotes all the night
your wife will miss you later – maybe
and cry for all the coulda’s that might

but you’re sadly mistaken
if you think that old C-10 Chevy
following the repo truck down the lane
is going to miss you half as much as you miss it

Photo by Heather Mount on Unsplash

Seoul Sunsets

Flight, Haiku, Nature, String Too Short To Save, Travel / tagged Korea / September 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Watercolor sky
boats islands and water too
sunset landing Seoul

Image by Paul KIm from Pixabay

I Go Where the Wild Goose Goes

Travel / September 3, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Smiling tip of the V
at the start of every trip

Last bird on the left
dragging my feathers
home

A Holy Error

Haiku / September 2, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Making a scarecrow
in the image of Francis
the monk lost his crop

CABBIES OF ATHENS

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Chaos pounds over dead civilizations
horns blare battle cries, fists shake the air

Taxi driver warriors slash and stab
and play pirate with the meter

And woe befall the coward fare
who doubts their courage and their skill
by any attempt to buckle up that belt

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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
Nancy Fierstien on TroubledMarch 18, 2025
Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
Ken Christopher on Negative Space in New York CityMarch 17, 2025
Prairie boy in NYC
Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025
I love this poem make more like it
Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025
Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

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