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Self Observation

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Travel / tagged Reflection / July 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Walking a mile
in your own moccasins

Dreams of My Father

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Dreams / July 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Six weeks you lay in that coma
what dreams you had
I never asked, you never said

The telling of dreams
was not a morning ritual in our home

If in grade two
I had been asked of yours
I'd most likely have said
More cows and a better horse

Little Brown Jug

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Music / July 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father had three sons

and taught them all
how to tie a grain sack, how to cut a calf
how to talk to a horse you walked up behind so you wouldn't get kicked or killed

Good things to know
but none of us is working cattle now

He played a mean harmonica
would that he would have taught us that

One of author’s father’s favorite tunes. Here done by Glenn Miller

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Good Fences Make Good Memories

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / July 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Slow driving west
down Saskatchewan 363

Paved now
but mud and gravel
50 years ago when Dad & Wally
came over from the home place
to help me build 14 miles of fence

Half a mile from the old Fort Walsh trail
where the Mounties hauled supplies
for a starving Sitting Bull

A lot of history
and a damn good fence
still standing, still stretching
like time, and our time together

Smooth and endless
over the soft rolling hills

From this distance
you can’t see the barbs in the wire

What a Boy Looks Up To

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Heroes / July 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Del Dube; skinny cowhand in the rafters
helping Dad to build the shed

Torn jeans and old bent boots
too full of holes for walking
but good enough to ride

Stepping light
from beam to beam
held up by air and cowboy pride
and a young boy's adoration

Del Dube and author’s brother Ernie

GOD / DOG / MIRROR

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Dogs, Faith, God, Heaven / July 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

GOD IS DOG IN A MIRROR
DOG IS GOD IN A MIRROR

KENNY HAD ALWAYS
A DOG AT HIS SIDE

NOW HE LIVES IN THAT SPACE
BETWEEN MIRRORS
WITH ONE ON EITHER SIDE

November 7858 Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Remembering / July 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You never forget your first

Beauty is nice, and grace
but if it is to lasting be

forgiveness is the key

Author’s first airplane, Cessna 172 Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ

Climbout Sunsets

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Relationships, Travel / tagged Aging, Michelangelo, Supersonic Flight / July 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

John Gillespie Magee
slipped the surly bonds of earth
reached out and touched the face of God

Planes are bigger and faster now
I in my Aero Commander
commander of the air

Climbing at dusk have set the sun
on the lip of the world
and held it there

Have rode the Concorde
faster than the speed of sound
and faster than the earth goes round
that can lift it up where it went down

And there are times I'd best the lark
to try to hold or yet turn back
baby's smiles and love's first spark

I think Magee, the reverence would see
as we all fight the dying of the light
and try to touch the Sistine finger
a little longer before night

Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots / tagged Joy, Wonder / July 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Wouldn't it be nice
if you went out with your instructor one morning
and the blue foothills sky was full of white puff ball clouds

And you smiled at each other
and began to play in and out of their magic
of shadows and light

And it felt much as lighter than air
as air is lighter than earth

And the hour took moments and forever
and the silence and awe followed you back
and he wouldn't even take your money for the ride

Now I know it's not legal to fly in clouds like that
so I'm not exactly saying that it happened
but wouldn't it be nice

How to Hook a Guy to Fly

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots / July 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buy him a ride with a barnstormer before he's ten
and see how big he grows as the town grows small

Put First Flight $5.00 in a magazine ad in Hawaii
Let the pilot do the take off and hand over the controls
Let him fly Waikiki beach to Diamond Head and back

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Very nice!
Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
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Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!

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