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Waiting

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall / September 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The stillness of fall

is more still
than the stillness of winter

It is the stillness
of waiting for winter

Image by Momentmal from Pixabay

The Tattoos of Dorian Gray

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Secrets, Vulnerability / September 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long sleeved and high necked shirts
could protect him from the crowd

But when he bathed the truth came out
in wrinkled cupids, moms and babes

Inspired by the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Image by Photorama from Pixabay

Limits of Poetry

Audio Recordings, Environment, Haiku, News, Poems about Poetry / September 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Orange doesn't rhyme
smoke smudges sunsets in the West
fake face in the East

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

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The Ides of Marching

Audio Recordings / tagged Protest, Unrest, War / September 12, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stopped
for the night
in a marked by X

Half way
on the way
to victory or defeat

Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay

9-11 (Faces)

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News, Remembering / September 11, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Yes Means Yes

Uncategorized / September 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Yes Means Yes
In Norse tradition
First man created was Ask
Remember boys please

Sölvesborg, Sweden – Sculpture “Ask och Embla” (Ask and Embla) by Stig Blomberg

Magnets

Audio Recordings, Relationships / September 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With the power of the poles
and the unlearned skill of compasses
we are drawn round the curve of the earth
And we touch, and move, and the iron filings dance

Acorn Promise

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Hope, Trees / September 8, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sitting in oak shade
holding in your warming hand
shade for the future

Regrets

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Covid19 / September 7, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You must give up your hope
for a better past - Irvin Yalom

Over your shoulder a virus
stalking your every move and movie
that you can’t go out to see

So you stay at home
and play old ones in your head
of, If I had only said or not said

or cast my vote another way
that they might still be alive today

Swivel your search to coming attractions

Of Bears and Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Fear, Love / September 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You could draw a hundred mile circle
around our Saskatchewan ranch
and not find a bear anywhere

And yet, there was always a bear

Chasing me
chasing me through my dreams
until I fell, always fell, into a well
and awoke still falling

They say, in falling dreams
you die if you hit bottom before waking

That was when I was four
I don’t dream that dream anymore

Yet when I find myself falling in love
tumbling down and down into love
that old bear is still there

And the fear to let go and hit bottom

Image by ArtTower from Pixabay

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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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