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An Invitation

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

Neil wanders the world in awe – Mirrors and metaphor everywhere. You can join him on this journey with a Poem in your Inbox every day. CLICK HERE to start today

Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who lit my life and left
true in joy and song
a lie in that muses do not die

How Lonely

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aphrodite, Connection, Dionysus, Hera, Medusa, mythology, Zeus / January 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How lonely must
the Greeks have been
to create so many gods

All powerful fathers
all manner of mothers

Sisters, brothers, cousins
for one to embrace or fear

an aunt with snaky hair
an uncle over fond of wine

nobody wants to go
to a party without a story to tell

Never Alone

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Companionship, Literature / January 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You need never sleep alone
if there's room in your bed for a book

Dickinson might have had Emerson

For the Poetry

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Education / January 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For the poetry
I have walked long walks
on large ranch with faithful dog
and picked the crocus from the earth

For the poetry
I have comforted
a mother and bowed to a father

Gone to schools
that taught strange things
and passed them on to others

Fallen in love and never out
rode horses and flown planes
and built buildings stick by stick

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Pickles and Poets

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Addiction, Art & Artists, Immersion / January 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

AA members
talk about how after
enough time in the brine
a cucumber becomes a pickle
and will never be a cucumber again

Maybe the same with poets
after enough time in the brine
of the reading and writing of rhyme
where a tumbler clicks and no way back

My Excuse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

W.S. Merwin. famous poet he
and the Torah use no punctuation

So now now whenever forever
I do not have either neither

Granary

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every poem is a granary

You can feed on what's there
or grow another from a seed

Image by Siggy Nowak from Pixabay

To Feel is to Understand

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Experience, Sharing, Story / January 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't show me
a ball of twine of your conclusions
without the threads that made it up

Is it heavy as the world
Atlas carried upon his back
or light as a child's bouncing toy

Show me the strings
of failure pain and joy

take me on your journey's track
that we may roll it forth and back

Buddha at the Bacchanalia

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Celebration, Fun, Perspective / January 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the dream
P&L threw a party
and what a party it was

Many a bottle bottomed
and many a button unbuttoned

While Buddha in a prone pose
watched unjudging from the mantle

More than under the bodhi tree
showing he could be attachment free

Introverts and Extroverts

Audio Recordings / tagged Contribution, Crowds, Solitude / December 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Those who
fill their buckets at private springs

Are not
less welcome in the thirsty garden
Than those who gather in crowds at the village pump

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