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Poems and stories about growing older,aging, deteriorating

School Reunion

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Friendship, School, Sports / May 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to school with supermen
all fearless and bulletproof
in hockey, football and life

They couldn’t be hurt
and if there was any doubt
take two aspirin and run it out

Today their knees lock up
a golf club swing cracks a rib
one steps wrong - his leg’s in a cast

They’re getting more human by the day
and sometimes even at night

I blame it all on the hole in the ozone
letting in more and more kryptonite

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Two Pictures of Hawaii

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Aging / March 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the east side of Oahu
when the sun comes up just right
you can see the mountains of Molokai and Maui

In picture number one
I am standing in the foreground
trim and twenties, trying to look like I belong

In picture number two
I am the camera, and the picture ages with me

Snowbirds in Flight

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Winter / February 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Icicles are seldom but never not curved
given the shape of eavestroughs and all
and deaths not uncommon when they fall
Many a Canadian grown up with that threat
and each year older holding harder to living
will run from that moon as fast as they can
and not until next April will you see them again

Tree Rings

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Relationships / tagged Aging, Education, Growth, Mentors / January 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Year of the Rabbit Day Two

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Astrology, Fate, Life, Luck / January 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The years shall run like rabbits - W.H. Auden

And the rabbit is off
with the hounds chasing

the track is twelve years long

The rabbit grows slower
the hounds grow ever nearer

Will we make it round once more

The Rabbit is one of the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

Kintsugi

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Healing, Love / December 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Like kintsugi cup
all old breaks now filled with gold
you so beautiful

What is Kintsugi ?

Narcissus in the North

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Image / November 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How I grew more beautiful
all through spring and summer
and into the golden fall

Winter has been hard
ice fishing for my face

The Indolent

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Retirement / August 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Having passed the age where
most have retired by choice or force
and with no particular trade to retire from
I watch sports on TV
all of which I played in my youth
with varying degrees of limited skill
and still care as much about the outcome
I read, because at ten
I fell in love with a teacher twice my age
And because bored was a word
never to be uttered on a working ranch
and the world infinitely interesting I carry on

On Reading Alan Dugan

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging / June 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading Alan Dugan, and not, and again
and not again, and again, and then again

The curmudgeon-colored misanthrope
deepening his claw-set each time

Not sure if he is getting better
or I am getting worse

Half Past May and Counting

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Faith, Spring / May 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This many years from farming
I still feel the urge to be afield
a plowing and a planting

A plowing and a planting
and a praying for some rain
and a praying for some rain

Not that this constant goading
should be seen as lack of trust

But knowing he is also old
and sometimes needs reminding

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Ken Christopher on Minutia in MarchApril 1, 2025
21 beats, 4 past hyku, (sp); perhaps a new form. Beautiful poem
Ken Christopher on Father’s PoemMarch 29, 2025
Lovely‼️
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

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