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Terminal

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Death, Heaven, Hell, Materialism, Temptation / January 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Direct flights
to heaven are for angels only

Most of us will have to go
through hell or Dallas on the way

Your luggage will be lost in Denver
and moving sidewalks mostly don't

The whole hall is one long mall
meant to tempt you on your way
and the big board for listing gates
never states which is the pearly one

Photo of Denver International Airport

Not Quite Sainthood

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Humor, Last Word, Presidents, Trump / January 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Jimmy Carter was
an eminently decent man

but not above living this long
just to throw half-mast shade
on an inauguration parade

Image courtesy of The Carter Center

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

Conversion

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Faith, Martyrdom, Repentance / December 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When near
the end of arise descend

Should I embrace the papacy
for the comfort of last rights

Or turn my face to Mecca
and strap on a belt of bombs
for all the virgins waiting

Don’t Sam McGee Me

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Cremation, Death, Robert Service / December 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Klondike cold or no
I will not
in the furnace go

deny the dancing worms
their dance

or diet overly
to short them in their feast

The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service

After the Death

Audio Recordings / tagged Anguish, Death, Grief, Loss / November 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Orli and Gideon)

These are the days of the rats in the cages

The burrowing into sawdust corners
and gnawing on bars
and the running on wheels
mostly the running on wheels

Even at night, specially at night
white God in his lab coat naps in the corner

and you know with perfect logic and insanity

If you could just do it fast enough
if you could just do it right enough

Like the wheels of old watches
all the cogs would fit the way they used to
when the good ones all had jewels
sleeping safe in their dark cases

And each morning you had to wind them up
if you wanted hours in your day

And you know, wish, know, wish, know,
that this is another way that this must go

And if you could just get the woulda, coulda, shoulda, could, woulds, shoulda, woulda, coulda, shoulda , wheels to mesh their gears just right

You could turn it all back

The 20th year of celebrating the short but impactful life of Tildan with a memorial swim in her honor

Snap

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Gandhi, Hinduism / October 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Death is an elastic band

The farther from God
we have stretched in our living
the bigger the slap when we let go

Gandhi shot
just says Ram, Ram and he's home

It is said in the Puranas that by chanting the name of Ram, salvation will be attained.

God is Getting On

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Death, Poachers, Politics, Trump, Violence, War / October 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

God is getting on
and suffering the eyesight of the old

In his youth
he could see every sparrow fall

Cataract clouded now
can hardly see an elephant
fall face-down on its tusks
or them that pulled the triggers

The widow or the orphan
or them that pulled the triggers

In his defence it must be notes
they were all dressed in camouflage
and some with faces painted orange

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Washday Monday

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Consequences, Death, Grief, Patriotism, War / October 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When the war is over
who will wash
the blood from the flags

How big the pot
how much water hot
how many widows stirring

How Is It That I Laugh

Audio Recordings, News, Relationships / tagged Celebration, Death, Friendship, Grief, Israel, Jerusalem, Memory, Palestine, War / October 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How is it that I laugh easier now
eve though so many
that I laughed with laugh no more
and at their memory can only smile

In Isreal on the Mount of Olives
we were included in a wedding party
where Muslims drank orange soda
men danced with men and laughed

So much of the world is far from fun
but that was yesterday and tomorrow
In the hotel of seven arches only joy

Hotel 7 Arches sits atop the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem

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