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Young Revere the Old

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Aging, Friendship, Respect / August 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young revere the old
an admonition most wise
may old do so too

Mother’s Poem

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Care, Love / August 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The kitchen has always been the center of the universe of any farm or ranch

She feeds their sleepy forms in morning
clothes them for the cold or warm
and prays them safe from harm

Looks out her window to the east
where barn shadows and rolling hills
greet them as they start their day

Men in firm direction to their work
children scattering to play

Then south across the lake to catch the water's mood foretelling wind or calm

Sometimes sees in morning
mirages of cutbanks rising
like mountains along the Eastern shore

Or more directly to the south
forms of her neighbour's homes rising and shimmering like memories of her youth

Seasons spiral out and in from this center
crocus and buttercups in the greening grass
cactus flowers and the joy of newborn calves

The growing season of the grain
and golden glory of a well stooked field

The shortening of days into winter
and the ever present stars
joined by the dance of northern lights

Within each season she has watched the play of seasons of each day
men returning from roundup
children from their play

While she waits always at the center
to warm and love

and safely tuck away

Mom and brother Wally in the ranch kitchen 1952

Quantum Lunch

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Science / July 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is nothing stable in this table

And yet
the ever so quickly spinning
nothingness that is me
is happy this particle-wave filled morning
to rest on it with non-existent elbows
and gaze and gaze
at the improbable you

Meeting for Coffee

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connetion, Story / July 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend is a story

Leap ahead ten years of pages
to the few
they care to share and in whatever order

You will have to make up the rest

The Badger

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / July 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Observe the badger
creature of the earth

See how she moves
with the grace and ferocity
of tectonic plates

Observe the badger
but do not try to pet
her soft earth softness

Do not let your hand
get caught
between the plates

Lost Octopus

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Loneliness, Pain, Struggle / July 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh how we flail
when we're hurt and unheard

Surely we can find
somewhere anywhere to connect

One listening friend would be great
and, better yet, two or four or eight

Good Guy Bad Guy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Good intentions, Public Opinion / July 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cowboy rides in
with his white had on to clean up the town

Cleaning up a town can be dirty work
and his hat's getting blacker and blacker

Not long now
Til they ride him out of town on a rail

So Easy to Love Those Who Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / June 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My first teacher hated teaching
and wasn’t fond of students either
I’d show you the strap marks
on my hands but they’re all growed over

Our second teacher loved teaching
and specially me each of us thought

I love watching sunsets
with someone who loves watching sunsets
Love howling at the moon
with someone who loves howling at moons

I never asked but guess
my second teacher loved sunsets and moons

Very Little House on the Prairie

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Changing Times, Conflict, Survival / June 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Out here the land is harsh and unforgiving - Connie Caldor

Yesteryear:
First years on the Saskatchewan prairie my grandparents lived in a house they built
from the packing cases that had carried their all
to keep them from fifty below and a hundred above

Yesterday:
My partner and I
went to the mats
over one degree
on the thermostat

Teacher (In Defence of Schoolboy Crushes)

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Education / June 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

She was my teacher in grade four
I fell in love for evermore

Not a love I could express
though with schoolwork might impress

And so I spent my nights and days
in search of learning and of praise

A flower opening to the light
in aching anguish and delight

Then she went and moved away
It seemed life ended on that day

Though looking back on that great year
not dimmed by time but made more clear

I see that ancient youthful yearning
remains of love of love and learning

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Ken Christopher on Minutia in MarchApril 1, 2025
21 beats, 4 past hyku, (sp); perhaps a new form. Beautiful poem
Ken Christopher on Father’s PoemMarch 29, 2025
Lovely‼️
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

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