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The Albums

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Aging, Family / June 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mother's shrinkage was marked by domicile

House, apartment, retirement and nursing home
shedding at each move, furniture, china, and art
except for, and never, the old photo albums
heavy in padded leather brown and green

Each visit when conversation stuttered to a stall
(Religion all but Baptist drowned and what use is weather without crops)
out would come the albums
and in we all would dive
for pennies bright and shiny
at the bottom of the pool

Here's one from 1958
How young the queen looked then

Roses in My Rear View Mirror

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / June 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(and a few bluebonnets too)

There's a family always laughing
There are girls and they're all smiling

There's a collie dog a roaming
chasing gophers down their holes

There's a ranch with grass all greening fifteen minutes after rain

Maybe you can go home again

Invitation by Flower

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Flower, Garden, Love / June 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Little lantana growing
through old bench boards

Saying Come sit with me
and we will be flowers three

Let us smile on one another
like there will never be another

Okay Now – Mostly

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Loss, Mourning, Sadness / June 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I'm okay now
when with every thought of you

Gratitude for the years
gets there before the tears

Mostly

Dove lupine in Sharon’s San Marcos garden

Visitation

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Friendship, Grace, Grief, Memorial, serendipity / June 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Between an angel and a dragonfly
there is no difference by scale

One
or the other circled
all the planting of the tree
that will be fed by Sharon's ashes.

Memorial sharing for Sharon Stuart; fellow poet, fellow traveler, held last Sunday in San Marcos Texas.

Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Grief / June 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

another one for Sharon
Another poem today
and you not there to share

Now answer to my whisper
and no answer to my shout

The box canyon's had the end blown out

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Dearly Not Departed

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / June 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Sharon

I have a picture
not taken by a camera

Of you
in a white peasant blouse
standing in a field of bluebonnets

Any time I take it out will be spring

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Circling the Square

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Community / June 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The old towns in South Texas
have a town square that all life circles around

One sees it also in Mexico and Spain
but that was where I saw them first
and an instant home ness rose

In the small towns of Saskatchewan
where I was born and raised
there was only a Main Street
and that was only always a road out of town

Town square San Marcos Texas, thirty miles south of Austin
Photo credit: Sharon Stuart

Prairie Bumper Sticker

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia / tagged Saskatchewan / June 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Train Day

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Saskatchewan, Small Town / June 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once a week, once a week
they came from 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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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
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Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
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Prairie boy in NYC
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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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