December 2024 – Neil Meili

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Conversion

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Faith, Martyrdom, Repentance / December 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When near
the end of arise descend

Should I embrace the papacy
for the comfort of last rights

Or turn my face to Mecca
and strap on a belt of bombs
for all the virgins waiting

Monastery at Night

Audio Recordings / tagged Celibacy, Dreams, Isolation / December 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The heavy keys have locked
heavy locks on heavy doors
and all the world withheld without

Yet in their cells are monks still men
no matter the roughness of the sheets
there is a softness of the thighs in dreams

Missing the Mystery

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Personal Growth / tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Comfort, Faith, Tradition / December 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A Protestant at Catholic school
I loved the music of the Mass
and all that ancient Latin singing
and sweet smoke of censer swinging

Our family's King James Bible
remembered that the Psalms were songs
We didn't go to church for news
and there were hymns that rocked the pews

At Esalen om mani padme hum
a praising of the jewel in the lotus
and the striking of Tibetan bowl
did more than math to soothe the soul

The rational mind likes login
but you don't have to take it to church

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Lambing Time

Audio Recordings / tagged Hope, Sacrifice, War / December 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Another Christmas morn
another innocent born
into war torn sheep shorn
let's try again - blow the horn

Galumphing Through the Snow

Audio Recordings / tagged Dogs, Freedom, pets, Play, Winter / December 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dogs without sleds leap loosely
a hound abound brings smiles to all

How Many Pins on the Head of an Angel

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Christmas, Connection / December 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty after midnight and up alone
sharing every Christmas past
with the angel of Austin present
alight on the well lit tree

Telling her of the first thin pine
strung with popcorn and candles clipped
back on the ranch before the power

Every crackle of every log
every crinkle of tissue torn
every child's first Christmas
and every parent's last
and every cousin and uncle and aunt
no longer as they say extant

Praying her to spread
her wings and wonder wide
that we may gather them all by dawn

Christmas Cards

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Christmas, Holiday, Traditions / December 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Back when mail was mail
and jam came in a pail
(with strawberries big as your thumb)
the thing I most remember
are the envelopes of December

It didn't surprise us
that Santa came by sleigh
anybody to get to our ranch
would have had to come by sleigh

so they came by card instead
and helped us light each clip-on candle
around the popcorned tree

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Tastes of Childhood

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Christmas, Experience, imagination, Literature, Traditions / December 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I was two or three
and my mother read to me

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole
I fell down the rabbit hole
tumbling over and over in the air
the memory is still there

Ribbon candy and real candles on the tree

Christmas chocolates made at home
from a factory recipe someone
slipped to someone on a train

Taste buds still budding
tasting with my whole body

Slowly I've forgotten how
only love and fear can do it now

Why Children Are Christmas

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Imago Therapy, Perspective, Voice Dialogue / December 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

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Turning Point

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation, Perspective / December 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I said it's good to see you back
How's your search for all knowing going

She said, I had it down pat
if meditation is where it's at

with breathing below perception
and everything nearing perfection

Then one day on a Kiwi beach
deep in the oneness a loud voice said

"Y

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