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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.

Sleeping on MAGA’s Couch

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Control, MAGA, Politics, Regret / January 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Primaried now and out in the cold
cause I couldn't be bullied to bend

You might be wearing the red hat now
could be eating orange snow in the end

And Still They Waltzed

Audio Recordings / tagged Fascism, Nazi, Occupation, Politics, Trump / January 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That was Vienna then

When jackboots glid
from note to note across a polished floor
with local girls that did not want to die

Will this be America now

Living in the Days of Mad Kings

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Leadership, Politics / January 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No mad kings in England
no Magna Carta or America

It is hard to think long strides
with swords hacking at your ankles
and leaping forward to look back
not a skill that we've uncovered
nor likely to be around to enjoy
it if comes out okay again

Letter to Erato

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Change, Current Events, Inspiration, Muse, Politics, Protest, Trudeau, Trump / January 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dear Muse, What do we do's now

From your mountain
you have seen much peace and war
with saints, tyrants, and much more
and with every age gifted verse to fit it

From here this one looks like a doozy
with faces and words painted to deceive
and new forms daily formed to disinform

Your poet flocks mill round your mountain
prey to false shepherds and real wolves

Shall we bring back Basho, no
or Ali to sting like a butterfly float like bee
or roll back sunsets cowboys have rode into

No, and no, these days call
for new forms of protest and of praise
these days have us on our knees - so please

New Years Fears

Audio Recordings / tagged Despair, Fear, Hope, Politics / January 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Never mind that old fight
of darkness against light
now darkness
doth with darkness fight

Power seized and power bought
and only for oneself each thought

But is all this but seems and seems
and may be trumped by children's dreams

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

Gerrymandering

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Politics, US Election / November 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The flounder is a fish
whose eyes migrate
from two sides of its head
to one and never travel back

There are politicians
who'd subdivide the sea
to get them in their district

January 6th Anniversary Song

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Democracy, Harris, Hope, Politics, Trump, Voting / November 4, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Leonard Cohen who checked out
when Trump was elected famously said
You won't like what comes after America
but didn't see how soon after almost came

Cohen sang You Want It Darker

Let's hope enough sing We Want It Brighter

Link to performance of You Want It Darker by Poet / Songwriter Leonard Cohen (Sept 1934 – Nov 2016)

Fools Gold

Audio Recordings / tagged Deception, Election, Politics, Trump / November 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Engineers wear an iron ring
made from a bridge that fell
from vibrations caused by wind
and loads not calculated for

Mayhap a mighty country falls
when voters misjudge mettle
and wear iron pyrite rings forever

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