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Troubled

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Activism, Art & Artists, Fascism, Ireland, Oppression, Protest, Voice / March 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Irish poet Seamus Heaney
pen in his hand "snug as a gun"
was much troubled by the Troubles
and the always question of duty
of the armed to speak for the unarmed

Many died for their writing
while many more died in silence
and did anything they didn't say save anyone

Hells and Hitlers come and go
methinks there may be one again

What shall I do with this pen

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Begorrah

Audio Recordings, Limerick / tagged Alcohol, Drinking, St. Patrick's Day / March 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There was a man from here
who would not drink green beer

Said it made his insides
feel like Godzilla's bride's

He called it caution - it was fear

Negative Space in New York City

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art, City, Prairie / March 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Mohawks Building Skyscrapers

Audio Recordings / tagged Building, Colonialism, Construction, Displacement, First Nations, Native American / March 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bird-high on a beam
they reclaim a bit of sky

By not looking down
at what's been pulled
from beneath their feet

How Mohawk ‘Skywalkers’ Helped Build New York City’s Tallest Skyscrapers

Sodbusters

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Displacement, First Nations, Foreclosure, Homesteading, Native American, Pioneers, Settlers, Work / March 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We homestead in our bodies too - Bill Holm

You have to prove it up
build some shelter
plant some seed
or let the next guy try

You will turn up arrowheads
---- the bankers got them too

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dominion-lands-policy

Farming Wind

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Change, Green Energy, Natural Resources, Wind Energy / March 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once pettable hills
rows of angry hackles raise
and cows curdling graze

The Fog of Farming

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, News, Ranch Life / tagged Appreciation, awareness, Beauty, Individuals / March 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In an eighty acre field of flax
it is easy
to overlook
the beauty of a single flower

Look What’s Growing Again

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth / tagged Bigotry, Fear, Hatred, Intolerance, Misogeny, Prejudice, racism, Trump, Xenophobia / March 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If the soil is right
2000 year old seeds can sprout and grow

A well-pigmented poet friend
who spent her young years in DC
returned the first time Trump was in
and saw lynch in every policeman's eye

In all of us may lie all seeds
and some of them are weeds

Maybe that
is why we have hoes

Jeremiah Laments Again

Audio Recordings, Environment, News / tagged Despair, Destruction, Prophecy, Trump, Warning / March 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's not a lot of joy
and precious little thanks
in pointing out the greed of priests
and the falseness of false prophets
and how that sort of thing
can cause temples and cities to fall
and you might get thrown down a well

Which might be causing
today's poets and prophets some pause
with Drill Baby Drill echoing across the land

Painting of the prophet Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt Van Reign, 1630 https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-3276

The Rise and Fall and Failure to Rise Again of the Roman Empire

Audio Recordings / tagged Destruction, History, Politics / March 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Vu from Deja
is becoming all too clear
and the sound of fiddles all too near

The Neo-Nero nearness may be wrong
but it don't take many notes to recognize a song

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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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