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Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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The Bobcat

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Fear, Wild Animals / March 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Boy scout camp, St. Victor Saskatchewan. About 50 miles (80km) north of the Montana border

Image by milesz from Pixabay

Black Beauty

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Cats, pets / March 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When we moved to Grandfather's old farm
no on had been living there for a while
and all the cats had gone wild

We found a litter of kittens
hidden deep in a corner of the loft
and among them
the most beautiful black and white kitten

Spitting and crouching under the eaves
she scratched all of us to the bone
If I'd been a tree there would
have been six rings

Much persistence we got her out
much time and love and we tamed her
if one every really tames a cat

Best cat ever
adopted by our cousins when we moved
and one of the things we most looked forward to on our visits was Black Beauty and her newest of who knew how many litters

The tomcats in that town were also
excelled judges of beauty

Dervil

Audio Recordings / tagged Cats, Intelligence, pets, Reincarnation / March 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dervil was the only cat
I ever knew with opposable thumbs

He didn't really have them
but you could see
that he remembered them
from a recent incarnation
as a slightly lower life form

Studiously unrolling the roll and flushing it down the toilet

Standing tall to grasp and turn
handles on the doors

About Beauty

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Appreciation, Cats, pets / March 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing
about beauty is everything

There were angel wing
clouds in the sky driving home
and there was home

Cats have nine lives
and three sets of eyelids

Is it pity for our poorness
when they look at us that way

Hawking’s Wheels

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Marilyn Monroe, Mystery, Science, Stephen Hawking / March 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ezekiel saw a wheel a rollin
a wheel within a wheel a rollin
away in the middle of the air
- Old folk song

Hawking's chair and his body sat
as he traveled the wheels Ezekiel saw

While over his desk when he came and went
pictures of Einstein and Marilyn framed
the speed and shape of the beautyverse

A Haiku for Hawking

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Afterlife, Death, Faith, Science / March 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stephen Hawking dead
theories now put to the test
black hole or white light

Voyeurs

Audio Recordings / tagged Beginnings, Origins, Science, Space / March 24, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Voyeurs we are
through our Hubble glasses

Watching birthing of stars
from orgasms of gasses

Quantum Lunch

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Science, Wonder / March 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is nothing stable in this table

And yet
the ever so quickly spinning
nothingness
that is me
is happy this particle-wavve
filled morning
to rest on it with non-existent elbows
and gaze and gaze
at the improbable you

You Can’t Say Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Attention, Connection, Love / March 22, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can't
say love without pointing

Words are only ink and air

But did you see
that look, that touch, that there

Man of Mystery

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Humor, Perception, Satire / March 21, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All you need is
half the people thinking
you know more than you show

And the other half believing
you know less than you profess

And a smile enigmatic enough
to confirm both sides convictions

Marcel Duchamp’s satirical take on the Mona Lisa entitled L.H.O.O.Q.

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