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Ode to the Farmer

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Appreciation, Danger, Death, Hunger / November 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No one will be surprised by the report
that farming is a very dangerous sport

What flapping empty-fingered gloves
point back to momentary lapses
What limbs with what power
have been taken off
by power take-offs

What tendons snapped like glass
and bones cut clean as grass
by unthinking mowers

And what of those neighbours
dead and true
who for a minute forgetting
what they knew
through red machines
combined with their grain

All these have earned his dusty tear
and many a “who’s next” fear

Year after year after year after year

And yet deep in the soils of time
the seeds of his goodness
are growing
while the world
turns in slow seasons

And he will be ready
when at last they declare
a true war on poverty
and are willing to bomb
with wheat

The Farm, The Ranch and the Sweeping Scythe

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Adversity, Beauty, Death, Hardship, Weather / November 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sunrise can be brilly bright
and all day long
everything out to get you

The horse can kick or fall
the bull has horns of steel

Every machine is grinding its teeth
in wait for a chance to bite

and every snowstorm
eager to find you
too far from the barn
and stiffen you like the manure-pile cat

The sunsets worth surviving for

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Farm and Ranch Nowadays

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / November 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tractors keep getting bigger
combines and chemicals too

Ranching a hundred years
a horse a saddle and a rope

Author’s Uncle Arnold on Wallis tractor, Saskatchewan 1928

Thanks Be To Cod

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Cod Liver Oil, Health / November 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were only given
one vitamin in winter
and none in the summer

In summer we had gardens and sun
in winter the oil of the liver of fish
and we got it by big spoons full
not in Nothing going on here capsules

The children of today hardly learn
with opportunes for wisdom wasted
unable to measure how good for you
without the gauge of how bad it tasted

Storm Windows of the Soul

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Prairie Life, Winter / November 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall in Saskatchewan
and storm windows going up

Three round holes under the flap
for the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
to enter on Sunday
and the exhaust of the Maytag’s
little gas engine to exit on Monday

Nature will be held at bay
family and guests opening a door
will close it slam-ass quick behind them

It will be that way till a warm day in May
when ladders go up windows come down
and the pagan gods rush in again

Seenery

Uncategorized / November 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uno Mas Para Los Muertos

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Ancestors, Death, memories / November 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Though
the tears of the dead
be without salt

It is more kind
to remember to act
in ways that bring
them joy

Dia de los Muertos for Gringos

Audio Recordings, Family, Remembering / tagged Day of the Dead, Death, Memory / November 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Refused a feast
on but one day a year
they nibble at our
every hour

Dia de los Muertos para Sophia

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Pruning, Survival / November 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the ice storm last spring
Sophia was dealt such a svelte

She used to be big as a village
now a third of the village is gone

We will leave food and flowers
and a stone where the branches were

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