February 2023 – Neil Meili

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Legacy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Hal Stone, Psychology / February 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hal met with Jung while young
in person and in dream

The world of dreams was rich to Hal
and to all who met him there

One night we sat on a corner curb
and spoke of this and that
looked up to see the intersect
clear marked Time and Wisdom

Though Hal may have taken
his last sweet breath of time
I dream the dream of meet again
at Wisdom and Forever

Dreams

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / February 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Digging out once again
from dreaming
I’m dreaming I’m dreaming

Where I tread pasts
and foretell futures
Embrace taboo embraces
chase and am chased
in many a circled chase

Buildings never built
I construct and walk among
Chat with Father, Mother and Carl Jung

New music I compose on a Strad
I heard in concert only once
Understand and speak
Spanish, French and Greek

Write direct and act the parts
in full-length movies

If you think in the morning I’d be tired
you’d be right

Of Bears and Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Childhood, Dreams, Fear, Love / February 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Eggshells Need Love Too

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Despair, Loneliness / February 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lately I've been feeling so empty
and more fragile than ever before

Everything that I believed in is gone

Desperate I turn
my jagged edges to the world

Step on me
with sensitive feet you will be sorry
with lumbering boots, I will be crushed

Survival

Audio Recordings, Family, News / tagged Death, Despair, Fear, Loneliness, War / February 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are wolves
everywhere and closer

Your parents are busy flailing
at the snarling snouts and dripping fangs

Busy wrapping their own and each other's bloody wounds

While you curl up, cold and lonely
in the bottom of the sleigh
thinking, I'll die if someone
doesn't pick me up and hold me soon

Thinking of the children of Ukraine on the 1st anniversary of the Russian invasion

A Poem in Waiting

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Death, Ukraine, War / February 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You’re early or they’re late
Cheap chairs and no mags
another covid cancellation

Time drags
Search for similes begins

Long lines
outside the Pearly Gates
after earthquake in Turkey

and Putin puttin’ on the blitz

February 24th marks the one year anniversary of Putin’s blundering blitzkrieg attack on Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkTCRWihPNo

The Sadness of Arborists

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Ice Storm / February 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Knowing that
next year
their trees

will by trying
to grow leaves

on phantom limbs

Taps

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Destruction, Ice Storm, Mourning, Sadness, Trees / February 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Austin
the trees after the freeze
are either dead or in mourning

There's a dead one now
with a still-clinging trumpet vine
playing taps

Big Oak Front Yard Austin

Audio Recordings / tagged Care, Love, Tree, William Blake / February 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way ... As a man is, so he sees" - William Blake

Alejandro
and Dorsey and me
almost kissing under the tree

Sophia close to 300 lies about her age

Alejandro with the city, has tenderly spent
six hours freeing her tresses from power line distresses

Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, William singing now

Oakmagadon

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Destruction, Ice Storm, Mourning, Support, Texas, Trees / February 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two weeks after
the once in a never before ice storm
branches are still falling from the oaks

Being branches from live oaks
the leaves which never leave are left
silvering in great piles along the streets

Hundreds of years old
Sophia shudders barer in the cold

It would take a hands-clasped minyan
chosen from the chosen ones to hug her

She looks like she needs that hug — What’s a minyan?

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