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Maynard Download

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Connection, Death, Guides, Technology / January 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Maynard and Leanne
were love and learning
writers teachers and seers

Leanne had gone on
leaving Maynard her learning
you know how it is these days
one iphone touching another

All afternoon he shared stories
some in words, some in code
one iphone touching another

Not sure about the passwords
but if you lean close to this poem

https://pathoftheheartwriting.com/guidance

You Think Therefore I Am

Audio Recordings / tagged Attention, Fear, Insecurity, Social Media, Trump / January 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

William Stafford's mother
spoke of some people in town as
"So boring you get tired of them
even when they're not around"

Is it fear that that is us
that wakes us all a-sweat at two a.m.
to send out all cap tweets
hoping their echoes will make us real

Poets in Peacetime

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Commentary, Protest, Readiness / January 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poets like soldiers
are of little value in times of peace
But it is important that
they maintain their readiness
with a certain degree of discipline
some exercises with live ammunition
and long marches with heavy packs

Letter to Erato

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Change, Current Events, Inspiration, Muse, Politics, Protest, Trudeau, Trump / January 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dear Muse, What do we do's now

From your mountain
you have seen much peace and war
with saints, tyrants, and much more
and with every age gifted verse to fit it

From here this one looks like a doozy
with faces and words painted to deceive
and new forms daily formed to disinform

Your poet flocks mill round your mountain
prey to false shepherds and real wolves

Shall we bring back Basho, no
or Ali to sting like a butterfly float like bee
or roll back sunsets cowboys have rode into

No, and no, these days call
for new forms of protest and of praise
these days have us on our knees - so please

Echoes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Connection, Greatest Hits, Popularity / January 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I must go down to the sea again
- John Masefield "Sea Fever"

I must go down to the sea again
hold my ear to a conch curved shell
and listen to the surf converse

John Masefield
poet laureate thirty seven years
reading the same poem
to different seas of shining faces

Shore and shell in conversation

Click here to read “Sea Fever” by John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England from 1930 to 1967

The Presence of Absence

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Thought / January 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The leap in the line
tween the gift and the get
that feeds your brain its bread
where the poet lives though dead

The nothing-there space
between the leaves and leaves of trees
has a life of its own with every breeze
Meet you there tween the Ah and the Ha

Weathered In

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Elements, Weather, Winter / January 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Weather in the city
has a lot of walls involved

Weather in the country
is God in all his nearness

Man Is a Counting Animal

Audio Recordings / tagged Achievement, Aging, Milestones, New Year, Religion / January 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was? - Satchel Paige

Notches on a gun
kills on the sides of fighter planes
dollars in the bank, candles on a cake

Cats can't count to ten
and start looking for a saviour
ending playful kittenhood of life nine

In-Tuition

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Experience, Intuition, Learning / January 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Life is kindergarten grade school and uni
You get to play and you have to pay

Life is also learning to listen
to tickles and hunches
and hints and voices beyond the sphere of ear

The cost of this is only in the not

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New Years Fears

Audio Recordings / tagged Despair, Fear, Hope, Politics / January 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Never mind that old fight
of darkness against light
now darkness
doth with darkness fight

Power seized and power bought
and only for oneself each thought

But is all this but seems and seems
and may be trumped by children's dreams

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Tom on Basketball in CanadaApril 18, 2025
Neil, as you may know we live about 15 miles from his former farm. The locals have installed a bronze…
Ken Christopher on Hockey Night in CanadaApril 17, 2025
Good one, it’s still goin on
Ken Christopher on ShitstormApril 4, 2025
My former comment had an error, should have read: Great poem Neil, has some slippery elements that mix it up…
Kenneth on Walden PondApril 3, 2025
Siblants interlapping with interference waves construct this delightful hologram of spring: well done my friend
Ken Christopher on Minutia in MarchApril 1, 2025
21 beats, 4 past hyku, (sp); perhaps a new form. Beautiful poem

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