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Victory Garden 2020

Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Covid19, Gardening, Health, Vegetables / May 20, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

More vegetables this year
less trips to the store

More flowers too

This will not
be beat by beets alone — Our garden in Edmonton courtesy of James and Katherine

A Poem in Search of a Verb

Poems about Poetry / May 19, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A verb like zischeln
German for: to whisper angrily

A verb to punch above its weight

A poem to knock you
right out of the left side of the bed

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Ice Fishing

Poems about Poetry / May 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Searching for a poem
half-formed last summer fall
afloat in a small bark boat

Turning to see the river thick with ice
I’ve carved a hole and wait with bait

Hey There

Relationships / tagged Healing, Heartbreak, Music / May 17, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hey there
you with the scars in your eyes
love ever made a fool of you

Songwriters will change
the scars to stars and ever to never

Sometimes that sort of thing helps

All the Isms that Is

Uncategorized / May 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Most all isms start with fire
though many end in ashes

Pity then for cousin Pragmat
born in cold and growing colder

Spring Came In

Nature / May 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spring came in
like a slinky on stair

Coiling and recoiling
twenty degrees at a leap

The robin looking at the
crocus twice to see if it was real

Double Rainbow

Environment, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Isolation / May 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you love someone you love their journey - Alicia Keys

It is nice in the sky for two
to arc together in each other’s glow

Sometimes in times of quarantine
distance must be arced by memory

Double Rainbow in a Thunderstorm Image by SuperHerftigGeneral from Pixabay

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In Good Company 2020

Personal Growth / tagged Covid19, Isolation, Personal Growth, Perspective, Philosophy, Prison / May 13, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Feeling like you’re in jail right now
make of it what you will, or look to these
Anne Frank
I live in a crazy time

Victor Frankl
Between stimulus and response
there is a space.
In that space is our power
to choose our response

John on the island of Patmos
You have set before me
an open door
which no man can close

Image by James Timothy Peters from Pixabay

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Morning in America

News / tagged Covid19, Prison / May 12, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Covid walls
and irony bars
do not a prison make

Observe if you will
that those who do most locking up
resist the most the locking down

And now that all are prisoners all
learn not to give what we can’t take

Homes

Family, Relationships / tagged Abuse / May 11, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All homes should be safe
except that some are not

A virus can creep in
fear, greed, anger, sin

Danger from without - within

Sometimes never enough soap
to wash you safe again

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