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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

Shear Pin

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Change, Government, Machinery, Politics, Sacrifice, Safeguards / March 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Between the insensate power of the engine
and the vulnerable bits of the machine
there's a pin in a sleeve of a power-take-off
A little mechanical fuse if you will
that will give its life for the greater good

You will find it on the farm
Cutting blades of a binder or a swather
hindered in their back and forthness
or an auger trying to lift grit not grain

Hear the snap of the pin shearing off
saving parts from flying off in all directions
Remove the pain replace the pin and off again

Sometimes it takes a hero to save a country too

Dealing with Pricks

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Coping, Fragility, Healing, Hurt, Pain / March 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We are all voodoo dolls
some have learned the skills
of fending off or pulling out the pins

John A

Audio Recordings / tagged Colonialism, Heroes, Politics, racism, Revision / March 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The bible says
to honor your father
with never a caveat or a comma

If Canada
did a paternity test
John A would be the father
yet statues of John are coming down
for things he done he shouldn't a done
and knowing better he wouldn't a done

Bronze is made of copper and tin
and no man is without a touch of sin
so bring back or take down every one

Canada’s 1st Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

Ash Wednesday

Audio Recordings / tagged Catholic, Cross, Faith, Lent, Religion, Rites, ritual, Tradition / March 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Grandpa’s Cellar

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Memory, Power, Scent / March 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Along the east wall a row
of large glass betteries
charged and recharged
by the windmill in the yard

Close by the many crocks
of the fruits of his garden
on their way to wine

I have been brought to halt
by a passing waft
of strong cheese and pipe tobacco

But never once or likely
the musky mix of ozone
and yeast at the bottom of those stairs

Sheets to the Wind

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Chores, Laundry, Memory, Scent, Winter / March 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reminded by Marymae the other day

of Monday's wash in Tuesday's wind
and bending sheets to bring them in

It was just enough starch
and thirty degrees below in March

And about how fingers got cold as hell
but I think it was really about the smell

Yes that was the part she wanted to tell
it was really the freshness of that smell

Ghosts in Winter

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Humor, Laundry, snowbirds, Winter / March 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Saskatchewan they go south

You can tell by the empty
sheets and shirts
flapping frozen on the line

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