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Black Sky in the Morning

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Free Speech, Hate, Journalism, Trump / February 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A Krakatoa cloud
is spreading across the land
filled with blitzkrieg lightning
and hell hath no fury like it hail

The Achilles heel of Rumplestiltskin
was naming him by name
where is the princess or the poet
who in these times will dare the same

Lunar New Year 2025

Audio Recordings / tagged Astrology, Trump, Year of the Snake / January 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you were born in the year of the sign of the snake you can also celebrate your birthday and my birthday too

And wonder how did they see so far and wise
through those half-opened eyes
the gifts and challenges of our lives

All our weaknesses and strengths
and strategies to thrive and survive
what rode in on the dragon last year

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.

Harrowing Experience

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Deportation, Disruption, Immigrants, Robert Burns, Trump / January 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Wee, sleekit, cowrin. tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie. - Robert Burns

Two hundred and forty years ago
Robert Burns plowedshared through
a field mouse's home and contritely wrote:

That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,

Magaman promising now
to replay the incident with intent
to plow through and scatter the straw
of all that they have earned and built

O, what a panic’s anns an breasties

With some comfort later in the poem

The best laid schemes
o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley

Freeing the Minions

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Injustice, January 6, Justice, Pardon, prisoner, Trump / January 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

By yon courthouse steps
blindfolded Justice holds her scales

With a small smile today
that those sent on treason tasks
will not in dungeons dankness rot
while he who sent them sits a throne

Though just as happy
fair being fair
if he had joined them there

Image by Dieter from Pixabay

Prairie Trumpet

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Fear, Threats, Trump / January 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bull pawing the ground
doesn't mean he'll charge for sure
best run anyway

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

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

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

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

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