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A Long Way From Town

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Sky, Solitude, Stars / February 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This summer
I hope to get back to the farm

turn out the yard lights
in the dark of the moon
and look up in four-year-old awe

with a smile
the Milky Way will remember

Tabula Rasa on the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Dogs, Solitude / February 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bee thinking about
what I might have been thinking about
on those long walks, just me and the dog
and coming to the conclusion - nothing much

The dog had her nose to follow
and she older and wiser than my four or five
more likely I just followed where it took her

A covey of partridge might explode in our face
a killdeer fake hurt to mislead us from her nest
or gophers barely beat us in a race to their hole

Even though I don't remember what there was
the secret of the joy might have been what wasn't
and what there wasn't in all those acres was people

With people you had to use your wits and words
and about a hundred million ways to get it wrong

Just me and the dog it was nothing but song

A Friend Came and Went

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Solitude / August 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend came and went
loneliness now lonelier
will a haiku help

Moon Lonely Tonight

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Solitude / April 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Hermit Envy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loneliness, Separation, Solitude / January 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about being alone
is finding someone to lie to
about how good it feels

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The Lonely Men

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Bachelors, Hardship, Pioneers, Saskatchewan, Settlers, Solitude / January 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Their little dark houses still dotted the prairie when I was growing up

They all seemed to cling to he soil as if their life force had all been used up in the long and difficult transplanting, and they could hang on but no longer grow
Or they stood alone surrounded by sadness and the small and smaller markers of what had fallen to the reaper's scythe

Their roots, loosened year after year
by the hot winds and the deep frosts became more and more brittle

Until one by one they broke off like tumbleweeds and were gone

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Alone at Covid Time

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Quarantine, Solitude / October 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Left side of the bed
covered with books not you

Corners as sharp
as an argument unresolved

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Beyond

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships, String Too Short To Save / tagged Covid19, Quarantine, Solitude / July 19, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Beyond the shut-ins window
the waiting world yet waits

10pm, Edmonton, July sky

Hermit Envy

Ranch Life / tagged Loneliness, Solitude / July 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about being alone
is finding someone to lie to
about how good it feels

Longing for Family

Relationships / tagged Connection, Family, Solitude / November 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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You could not possibly have known that today was the day that I had to have my beloved dog euthanized.…
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