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Mothers Day 2020

Family, Relationships / tagged Aging, Covid19, Separation / May 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mom
in the old moms home
in virus utero this year

God bless her keeping kicking

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The Farm, The Ranch and the Need for God

Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / May 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who pray to when the rains don’t come
who forget to thank when they do

Who curse when the John Deere breaks
and the cow jumps over the moon
(by the moon of course I mean
the fence to the alfalfa field)

Who in the long nights pondering
under stars too cold to be suns
a word big enough for big — Needlepoint picture of “The Old Home Place” by the author’s dad, Walter Meili
which he created as part of rehabilitation following his stroke

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Lifebuoy

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Family, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / April 25, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I never have learned to swear very well which just goes to show that training will tell
That there is much to be said for good homes and payoffs for stern discipline and hope
It's not that I don't know the words
but they all still taste like soap.

Old School

Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Education / March 3, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uncle Emil, a good man
through and through, knew school

Not from being there
but from watching those who had

Four years of university
and he still can’t milk a cow

I’m Ready For My New Hip Now

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Healing, Health / January 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I have finally forgiven

My old hip for all those years of pain

My mother for her hesitation
to carry me in a time of war

My father for the crushings
between the baler and the shed
and between his will and mine

And have taken also
the first small steps toward gratitude
for how far all three have carried me

Heaven

Family, Nature / tagged Death / December 31, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you've lived that long by the Miramichi You're probably right about what heaven is like

In loving memory of my son-in-law’s father Dr. Fred Bullock

Why Children Are Christmas

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / December 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

One For The Aunties

Family, Ranch Life / December 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who midwifed my father into the world in a packing crate shack in 1912
And washed up and went home without mentioning the blessed event to the government (an no one else did either)
Forty years later he applies for a passport and finds that he doesn't exist
Until they swear on on their memory and bring him into the world again

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The Austrian Uncles

Family / December 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Already old when I was young
revered as I would hope to be when old

Two brothers married to two sisters
of my father’s father

Great aunts
always as they’ve always been
busily bustling ‘round the house

While the uncles somehow stay
both present and out of the way

Little china cups in work-hard hands
black coffee and home brew
sipping the day away

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How Not to Be a Turkey on Thanksgiving Day

Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Holiday, Thanksgiving / November 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Practice Practice Practice

So sip each morn
and eve on plentitude

And on the day of gratitude
show up less loud and crude

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