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Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Comfort, Grief, Support / December 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As long as you read this poem
I will be writing it.
Alden Nowlan - An Exchange of Gifts

Deep down I hope you know
I wrote this poem for you
even though you might have had
a different name and face and place

There was a man in the Southwest
who lived with widows in a serial way
and sometimes made them mothers again

The children have reunions
and tell stories and have a name for him
they call him "The Comforter"

How Thorough Was Thoreau

Audio Recordings, Family, Poems about Poetry / tagged Food, Hermit, Poet, Recluse, Support, Walden / November 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Meditating on pond and sky
is better with donuts and pie

Delivered no doubt silently
by mom and sis each Sunday

Fair Ball

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Baseball, Childhood, Sport, Support / September 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So what if my father
only came out once
to watch me play baseball

He was a busy man

I caught a hard line drive

Fire Relief Concert in Austin

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Charity, George Strait, Help, Lyle Lovett, Music, Musicians, Support, Texas, Wildfire, Willie Nelson / July 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s damn dry
in Texas this year Y’all

It was summer in spring
and it’s still summer in fall

Big old lakes are all piss-puddle small
and the cows are eatin’ Bar-B-Q grass
the ones that are eatin’ at all

A million trees and a thousand homes
burned up in Bastrop just like dry sticks

But the stars are gathering over in Austin
Willie and George and the Dixie Chicks

Neighbors who know and care how they feel
Lovett and friends and Asleep at the Wheel

So let’s all chip in and do what we do
I’ll write a poem, what about you?

Willie Nelson singing Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die at Fire Relief: The Concert for Central Texas October 17, 2011 – Click here to listen to him perform it live in 2013

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Oakmagadon

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Destruction, Ice Storm, Mourning, Support, Texas, Trees / February 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two weeks after
the once in a never before ice storm
branches are still falling from the oaks

Being branches from live oaks
the leaves which never leave are left
silvering in great piles along the streets

Hundreds of years old
Sophia shudders barer in the cold

It would take a hands-clasped minyan
chosen from the chosen ones to hug her

She looks like she needs that hug — What’s a minyan?

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