August 2023 – Neil Meili

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Blue Moon Blues

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Grief / August 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Many a moon I have howled
with the she-wolves of this world
and many of them not here to howl

Last night’s blue supermoon – a phenomenon that won’t occur again until 2037

Sky and Air

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships / August 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the place where you were born
like the first look
into your mother’s eyes were the skies

The size color and cut of particles of dust

Mists rising where the mists rise
and the angles of reflection and refraction

Sunrises noons and sunsets
of your youth and of your longing

You can go home again

Back to the Barn

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Birds / August 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Look how the swallows thread the sky - B.J. Buckley

Watching swallows swoop and loop
from the window of the loft again
would mend some tears in the years

Barn – Sunshine – Thoughts

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Dust / August 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The mote and the beam
are both in my eye

Witness to sunlight's break and enter
through errors in dry boards

I have sneezed
and changed a world

Barn Swallows

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Ranch Life / tagged Barn, Birds / August 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They swoop
from beneath the eaves
carving an invitation
to the big red ship

Come slip your moorings
and follow us across the sea

New Hay

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Harvest / August 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The scent of hay
thrown upward in the cutting

Too rich and heavy to remain aloft
falls back to lie among its fallen friends

Walk shuffling small feet through it
and it lifts again in clouds to nostrils

Breathed in sweet particles remain
I do believe ... there's some there yet

One More for Kenny

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Grief, Separation / August 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We were Siamese cousins
joined at the hip

So adept we never stepped
on each others toes

God the great and clumsy surgeon
has divided us

Wearing the right clothes
the scar doesn’t show
but people sometimes wonder
why I walk in circles

The Pickup Truck

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / tagged Dating, Driving, Friendship / August 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Kenny and me
in the little
blue chevy

Three
or was it four
giggly girls between us

Kenny takes his hands from the wheel
and says to the nearest one, “You drive”

She says “No”, and means it, so nobody drives

The truck going neither fast nor slow
leaves the road and heads off across the field

Until a 2-foot wall of mud settles the argument

Night Shift

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia / tagged Cars, Small Town, Youth / August 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They swoop
from beneath the eaves
carving an invitation
to the big red ship

Come slip your moorings
and follow us across the sea

Toads & Toads

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Fairy Tales, frogs, Pollution / August 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Marianne Moore describes poetry as
Creating imaginary gardens
with real toads in them

And has left us imagining
what manner of toads

Giving you a wart to worry toads
Kissisng Princesses into lovers toads

Or toads of diminishing numbers
singing songs of coal miners' canaries

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Ken Christopher on Never Thought Of It As SolitudeNovember 19, 2024
Very nice!
Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
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Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!

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