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Mosaics

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Connections, Design, Greece / September 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On Delos a floor caught our eye
with an Escher-like mosaic pattern

Optical illusions of rectangles in rows
still bright after thirty centuries

Next day in a New York airport
we take our seats in the lounge
fabric covering the chairs
in exact same pattern

Owls to Athens

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One does not take coal to Newcastle
or owls to Athens

But it is good to go
with an appreciation of coal and owls

It is also permitted to leave Newcastle
with a bit of coal in one's pocket

Or Athens with a small bronze of an owl

And memories of a questioning call
floating across the Agora
to the small cliff restaurant

Where we rest on the long climb down
from all the heights of the Acropolis

Below the Acropolis

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the agora bright red flowers
from seeds older than Socrates or wisdom
converse among the grasses
and look up at the temple covered hill

All Greeks Were Not on the Argo

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some it seems
have never raised an anchor

Asking the way to Delphi
they knew the direction
though not the roads

They were only able
to point out the next place to ask

The Sea

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Boats, Greece, mythology, Temptation / September 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the Mykonos to Delos ferry
past rocks with good seats for sirens
rocking in a cradle still rocking
since the gods were young

Feeling the wake of the island
where she floated invisible in the mists
before agreeing to dig in her feet
and challenge the jealous Hera
providing Leto a birthplace for the
ever grateful Apollo and Artemis

Feeling their blessings

Spent the afternoon remembering previous Greek travels and enjoying the beautiful Greek scenery (and a few laughs) at a showing of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Karolina

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Greece, Independence / September 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Artist Laureate of Mykanos
her adopted town floats above the canvas

Windmills dance on the hills
church domes and white houses
rebound light across the narrow lanes

Ships bob on the bluest water
watched by pink pelican and faithful dog

In her pictures handsome Greek men
work the boats and bars

Forty years from Boston town
she knows too much of these men
but the island nights get cold

Her art raised their two children

–it cost a lot

but to marry one of these
patriarchetypical sons of pirates
would have cost more soul
than this artist or her art would pay

Read more about Karolina of Mykonos

Widows

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Death, Greece, Survivors, Tradition, War / September 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Greece is a land of widows
black dresses with brooms on empty stairs
This comes from ten thousand years of wars

Greece is a land of proud and arrogant men
This comes from lives of great danger
and the supply and demands
of ten thousand years
of widows

Momma in Mykonos

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Marolina says, enjoy the room
my eighty two year old mother
lives on the first floor under your stairs
Call on her if you need anything

Momma doesn't understand our English
but most important that we understand
She could understand but chooses not to

She also knows that her daughter
must rent the rooms above her head
but she will not look up

Horevo Kathestos

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Greece, Philosophy, Teacher, War / March 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Socrates was a solider in his youth
quick on his feet enough to stay alive

Slower and quicker in the Agora
Horevo kathestos - dancing sitting down

Humming a tune still stuck in our heads

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Lions of Delos 2020

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Covid19, Greece / July 22, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Another trip covid crushed
the Lions of Delos howling in lonely

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