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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.

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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

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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
Nancy Fierstien on TroubledMarch 18, 2025
Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
Ken Christopher on Negative Space in New York CityMarch 17, 2025
Prairie boy in NYC
Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025
I love this poem make more like it
Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025
Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

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