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An Invitation

Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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One Chicken Little Too Few

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fables, Warning / November 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Feeling the Bads and Buying the Goods

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Consumerism, Debt, Freedom, Manipulation, Placebo, Shopping / November 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Watching the news will make you nervous
you may want to buy something

The new things will make you feel new
they're different, so you're different too

A Ford or a Buick or a Big Brother story
a hat or a purse or a home wrapped in glory

Someone will be there with something to sell
with something to make you feel safe and well

And all it will cost is freedom or money
And you won't have to pay today

Black Friday

Audio Recordings / tagged Consumerism, Consumption, Disparity, Famine, Feast, Regret / November 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Driing past the homeless
on the way to the big box store

Wishing that I'd eaten less
and given more

Home Again

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / November 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You could go home again
if you and home were the same

Longing for Family

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Connection, Disconnection, Loneliness, Siblings / November 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I was an only child
the second of five

We were often in
the same house

sometimes attended
the same schools
churches too

and are searching
for each other still

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Earning the Knowing Nod

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Community, Connections, Experience, Recognition / November 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You have been to the same school
sat at the same desk with a tack on the seat
and a ruler
with a ruler rapping your knuckles raw

You have been equally
but differently broken and healed by love

You meet across a room or in a grocery or airplane aisle

They nod, you nod, you both smile

Modern Medicine It Ain’t

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / November 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

10 cc's of Carnation Milk

Inject it just beneath the skin
pink eye cured in a Hereford calf

Old wives remedies you say
maybe that's how they got that way

Reincarnation Milk

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Connection, Flavor, Food / November 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This only works for one generation
but memories of food can conjure them back

Every lemon meringue
in the world has mother in its color and clouds

Any key lime pie, Longhi's in Lahaina before the fire

All moussaka anywhere is Momma's on Mykonos

And even Carnation milk
which I never liked, brings Dad to the kitchen table

Cowversations

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Communication, Humor / November 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One of the reasons I got out of ranching
was the long drought of good conversation

Cowhands
true to their fame are men of few words

Horses ain't bad
they will at least point their ears and pretend

But cows, it was the cows that did it
how they'd saucer eye like listening
while you chewed them out in detail
about all the dumb things that they'd done

Turn away to ruminate upon the lesson
and two days later kick you for no reason

Conversations with Horses

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Animals, Communication / November 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I never had a horse that talked to me
like Mister Ed on sixties TV

If I had I might have learned a lot

I did talk to them of course
but mostly by knee and rein and spur
and sometimes thank you for a job well done

As for messages for me, I can only imagine
- or count the number of times bucked off

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Iudita Harlan on Longing for FamilyNovember 26, 2025
Neil Lovely poem. Sending love to you and Darcy. Iudita
Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

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