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Refrigerator

Audio Recordings, Family, Haiku / tagged Art, Food, Love / April 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Milk eggs cheese and meat
on the door the children's art
bodies and souls fed

Hope Flowers

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Education, Israel, Palestine, War / April 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Bethlehem a refugee
with sadness but no hate decreed
Another generation is what we need

And a school where the children
of the refugees of holocausts
and refugees of refugees
can learn together
learn to look inward f irst

This is a most beautiful and special place
with such regard for dignity and respect
so successful in their message of love
so f illed with fairness to each side

That Arafat’s Palestinians burn their busses
and Israelis torture teachers and riddle walls

While Caterpillars sent from across the sea
creep closer each day in their wonderful
mindless mechanical way with leveling intent

To be met with Gandhi smiles
and your help, if you give it

www.hopeflowersschool.org

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Hope

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Adversity, Hope, Optimism, Struggle, Tenacity / April 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

World hard and harder
walls and paths build
stone by stone
in the cracks - flowers

Fear piled on pain
stone paths merge
with rock wall rise
in the cracks - flowers

Hard days and hard nights
path of pain joins wall of fear
in the cracks - flowers

Perspective

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Holocaust, Homeland, Israel, Survival / April 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Israel this year
the number of Jews will reach six million

There are other Jews in other lands
but it is only here that you can stand

Put out your hands
palms up and softly cupped

Weigh each as equal
weigh each and say

“This many”

A poem written for Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2012

Faith in the Afterlife

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Faith, Humor / April 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Faith in the Afterlife

Burial suit
with two pairs of pants

Reincarnation by Loon

Audio Recordings, Nature, Remembering / tagged Birds / April 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Not there's a sound
you could take anywhere
and remember
when you returned

The Joy of the Loon

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Birds / April 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The joy of the loon
is in the sadness of his song
Candle Lake at dawn

Candle Lake 2000

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Rain, Spring / April 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Five in the morning

Wind shakes northern cabin
rain rattles roof and window

Plaintive loons cry and try
to lift the hidden sun

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The Reds of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Celebration, Christ, Easter, Flowers, Rebirth, Spring, Wildflowers / April 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A radiance of cardinals
an inebriation of winecups

Indian paintbrush
in a field of bluebonnets

Easter running down his ribs

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Reincarnation by Cloud

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Hope, Rebirth / April 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does the rain falling on us now
remember the palmed oasis
the emerald lake of the Rockies
the laughing over small stones

Hand in hand we stand
faces upward, wet with hope

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Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
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