September 2024 – Neil Meili

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If Adam Was

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Guilt, Judgement, Sin / September 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If Adam was
the first virgin birth
and Eve the first Caesarean

And every father deep down knows
that every time his children sin
it is due to what he did or didn’t do
how uneasy sits the crown of God

Ain’t that a Shame

Audio Recordings / tagged Adam, Eden, Eve, Paradise, Sin / September 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What if
the only sin in
the garden was the fig leaf

With Ghosts

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Humor, Loneliness, Sharing, Stories / September 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I was ever alone, alone
I'd go hunting for a house with ghosts

They tend to derpress the real estate prices
and add little or nothing to grocery expenses

I'm always happy to hear anyone's stories
and they must have some doozies to share

They will extend the same courtesy to me
listening to my poetry endlessly and patiently
and groaning like you did at the groanier ones

Election Year

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art, Opinion / September 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Another year of poems
from lame to luminous

Every reader gets a vote
electoral college doesn't count

A Poem A Day

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Attention, Observation, Practice / September 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A poem a day
every fly and butterfly
fully noticed now

Today marks the 6th anniversary of A Neil A Day Free Verse

Running Without Scissors

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / September 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Thomas Gray's Elegy)
No mark or cut upon the world
No origami cranes to whoop
No alphabet for poet soup

An ode to an elegy: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray

Latitude Attitude

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Ideas / September 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Austin shares a latitude with Cairo and Lhasa

It has little to do with weather
and much to do with whether or not
the thoughts thought there
are thoughts that shape the world

Thom the World Poet is here to prove it

What’s in a Name

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Beauty, Immigration, Italy / September 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Rina Ferrarelli

San Giovanni in Fiore
translates to St. John in bloom

One could ponder whether the radiance is flowers or saint or both

We know a poet from there
transplanted to America - Still in bloom

Fowl Supper

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Community, Harvest, Sharing / September 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't call it fall
even though it happens then

Because it's all
about turkey and the trimmings
and the trimmings are community

Men had the toil and the joy
of bringing in the sheaves
Women the toil and joy
of turning them into bread and pies

In Tibet and the Southwest states
sand paintings are made and blown away
nothing is permanent so they say
nobody counts how long the feelings stay

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Dad and Roy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Humor / September 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad and Roy were the best of friends
they drank and fought and played
and laughed like nobody laughed
for fifty years and more

Dad had a room in the nursing home
way down at the end of the hall
When Roy was admitted as well
a nurse wheeled him down that hall

They sat footrest to footrest
then Roy said "So it's come to this"
and they both had a hell of a laugh

Dad died in late December
Roy lasted three months more
They were buried twenty feet apart
in the prairie town where they played

I can see them there now
sitting on their shiny new stones
having a smoke and a chew
and a good pull on a forty of rye

Roy says "So it's come to this"
and they both have a hell of a laugh

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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!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
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!!
Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil

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