Neil Meili

Zen Cowboy Poet & Freelance Philosopher

Skip to content

Home
Contact
Neil’s Books
Poems
Kind Words
A Neil a Day Poems

Tag Archives: Crops

Conspicuous Non Consumption

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Crops, Drought, Fear / September 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You might wonder
when you drive past a farmyard
with a million dollar combine sitting
beside a thirty thousand dollar house

You must remember what they can't forget
that the dirty thirties blew through here
and one of these days they might be back
and anything as hubris as sloth or waste
may cause the gods once again
to visit down grasshoppers, hail and dust

These gods
do not object to spending on production
or the machines that help bring in the crop
but woe to those who spend on themselves

The Elevator

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Crops, Grain, Prairie Life / August 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Seed filled erection
proud on the prairie
when the west was young

Picture by Ron Dormer. Available for viewing and purchase in the restaurant at Temple Gardens Hotel & Spa in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

1 Reply

Setting a Good Example

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Adversity, Crops, Faith, Waiting / July 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The farmer prays for rain
and goes right back to work

He seeds the seeds
and he weeds the weeds
and oats his horse if he has one

But as summer goes by he may scan the sky
with the boils and the patience of Job
and mutter, as Job might have muttered
while trying to set a good example for God

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 7

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Crops, Drought, Rain / July 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stopping for water
dry eyes turn westward
reading the clouds

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 1

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Crops, Hay, Heat, Summer, Wheat / July 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hay bales pile
the sun stays to watch
will evening come

Search

Neil’s Latest Book Available in Paperback and Large Print Edition though Amazon worldwide

Social

View zencowboypoet’s profile on Facebook
View @meilineil’s profile on Twitter
View neilmeili’s profile on Instagram

Want More Poetry? Sign Up Here.

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!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
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!!
Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil

Audio Recordings
Cattle
Cowboy Poetry
Cows
Environment
Family
Farm
Flight
Haiku
Limerick
Manure
Nature
News
Nostalgia
Personal Growth
Pilots
Poems about Poetry
Ranch Life
Relationships
Remembering
String Too Short To Save
Travel
Uncategorized

Tags

Aboriginal Aging Alcohol Art Art & Artists Autumn Beauty Birds Childhood Children Connection Covid19 Death Dogs Dreams Faith Family Farm Fear First Nations Friendship Gratitude Greece Grief Hope Horses Humor Love Mother Music Nature Poetry Politics Prairie Psychology Ranch Life Regret Religion sensuality Solitude Spring Voice Dialogue War Winter Wisdom

©2015 Neil Meili. All Right Reserved.

Theme Designed By ThemeVan | Powered by WordPress

Loading Comments...

Write a Comment...

Email

Name

Website