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Small Town Growing Smaller and Larger

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Perspective / February 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Been looking at mine for quite some time
through telescope and microscope
everyone and everything not as seeemed

Could it be the changing me's that sees
Could it be the equipment that I'm using
Dad's leather-shedding slide-out spyglass
and a toy microscope left by a frugal Santa

Vortextual

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / February 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing on the prairie
long enough to know

That the middle of nowhere
is also
the center of everywhere

Buffalo Dance

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Activism, Change, Choice, Perspective, Politics, Trump / January 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd
but you can be happy if you've a mind to - Roger Miller

Buffalo Bill is back
in the White House for a while

But somewhere
buffalo bulls are sowing
and somewhere herds are growing

Four years of calves from now
the curves of one will pass the other
and you'll be happy if you've a mind to

The Buffalo Treaty https://buffalorelations.land Transferring intergenerational knowledge and sharing amongst Nations.

Past Translating Present

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dictators, Joy, MAGA, Nazi, Perspective, Power, Regret, Trump / January 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In her youth she'd been a Hitler Youth
filled with purpose and power
and the joy of pre-teen camaraderie

All now dimmed and damned wheen seen
through smoke from Auschwitz ovens
though somewhere in her still it shines
brightest diamond of her life

This was the story, or was it two
she sought my help to put to poem

That was thirty years ago
I might do a better job today
informed by watching rallies
filled with power hope and joy
and how it will look in their regret

Volvo Yearning For Its Youth

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Aging, Cars, Change, Experience, Perspective, Transportation, Trump / January 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

White hood turning gray
hail pocked like parked
at the driving range all day

Sunroof glued shut
from resting under live oak lust

Suspension creaking like the knees
of the owners getting out and in

And yet she still has all her gears
keeps family safe from Tesla fears

Likes to call them wisdom dents
and will not support mad presidents

Why Children Are Christmas

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Imago Therapy, Perspective, Voice Dialogue / December 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

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Turning Point

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation, Perspective / December 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I said it's good to see you back
How's your search for all knowing going

She said, I had it down pat
if meditation is where it's at

with breathing below perception
and everything nearing perfection

Then one day on a Kiwi beach
deep in the oneness a loud voice said

"Y

Image by Welcome to All ! ツ from Pixabay

The Tao Jones Average

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Balance, Perspective, Philosophy, Self Awareness / November 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That squiggly line on every graph

Between
the doing and the being
Between
the grasping and the letting go

Between
the white dot in the black
and the black dot in the white

of us all

Happy to Have Been Wrong

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Disappointment, Election, Perspective, Politics / November 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All through this last election schmear
I thought joy would triumph over fear

Not this time it would appear
but I had a much happier year

Image by xuuxuu from Pixabay

When the Bough Breaks

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Change, Destruction, Perspective / October 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The top 40 feet of the hammock tree fell
and left but enough for the anchors to hold

Lying there now there's nothing to see but sky

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You could not possibly have known that today was the day that I had to have my beloved dog euthanized.…
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