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Eclipsed

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death / April 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you were
my sun and moon
and all I saw was you

The sky was
filled with stars unseen
and now you're
one to me

Eclipse

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Death / April 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I've had
enough of total eclipse
each time they closed the casket

Never wearing
the right kind of glasses
to see the sun come out again

Mona Lisa

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Inspiration, Muse / March 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I'm so thankful you were there
like a Mona Lisa fair

To show me things I'd never see
and to model for my poetry

Which is not to compare
the artist or the style

But only to confirm again
the value of a smile

Shrapnel

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Anger, Fear / February 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

His anger was a hand grenade

You never knew
what you might say or do to pull the pin

Had it been a bomb you might have heard it ticking

A Valentines Poem with Thorns

Audio Recordings, Relationships / February 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The beauty of a rose always
outweighs the pain
of the thorn

In this same spirit I would pray
that Valens be forgiven
their tines

Only when we bleed can we see
what lives within
the heart

Garbo Passes

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Fame, Introvert, Recluse / February 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

She didn't
really want to be alone
She just didn't want
to be with most
of the people
who wanted
to be with her

She just didn't have
anything more
to give to those
who only wanted to take

The Needy Introvert

Audio Recordings, Relationships / February 11, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Alone but not alone
always wanting to hide
from everyone with someone

Whenever trapped in a people corral
scanning for one to cut out of the herd

A Mobius Trip

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / February 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Always an emigrant, never an immigrant
one foot in each country for thirty years
more running from than running to
more neither nor than either or

Always abandoning in some way
family, friends and dependable plans
and any constancy demands

Half desperate, always in search
for new ones who will give enough
and not demand too much

I keep my Canadian in Canada
and am careful when I pack
I stow my twang at the border
and pick it up on the way back

Flying from Calgary to Toronto, Eda asks
"How come you've started to talk in a drawl?"

Just as the captain comes on the blower to say
"In order to avoid a big storm on our left
we are now flying over North Dakota"

You are the U in Houston to Me

Audio Recordings, Environment, Relationships, Travel / tagged Pollution, Smog, Texas / February 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How could I ever leave you love
if you didn’t live in Houston

If it wasn’t for the humid swamp
and the trash along the bayou
how could I say good-bye to you

You know I love you dearly
and it ain’t you that makes me run
but Houston traffic’s far from fun
and every Bubba’s got a gun

Yet even with all of that
and the country’s worst damn air
you know that I’ll keep coming back
as long as you are there

And I’ll keep leaving Houston too
after a muggy smoggy day or two

One of these days I hope you know
I’ll take you with me when I go

The Death of a Thousand Cups

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death / January 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some die by inches, some by ounces

Little by little he sank below the surface
each meeting less and less of him there
- a discussion without a quorum

It's been a few months now
and he hasn't appeared in dreams
or haunting our old haunts

It was so long
since he knew he was alive
he may not yet know that he is dead

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Siblants interlapping with interference waves construct this delightful hologram of spring: well done my friend
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21 beats, 4 past hyku, (sp); perhaps a new form. Beautiful poem
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Lovely‼️
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Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
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Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…

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