January 2025 – Neil Meili

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Lunar New Year 2025

Audio Recordings / tagged Astrology, Trump, Year of the Snake / January 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you were born in the year of the sign of the snake you can also celebrate your birthday and my birthday too

And wonder how did they see so far and wise
through those half-opened eyes
the gifts and challenges of our lives

All our weaknesses and strengths
and strategies to thrive and survive
what rode in on the dragon last year

Titanic America III

Audio Recordings, Haiku / January 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ice in the water
captain still full speed ahead
bets are on the berg

Titanic America II

Audio Recordings, News / January 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A great ship has struck
a great rock in the ocean
who gets the lifeboats

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Titanic America

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Destruction, MAGA / January 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once more a great force
strikes a greater in the sea
most of it unseen

Image by Đỗ Thiệp from Pixabay

Buffalo Dance

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Activism, Change, Choice, Perspective, Politics, Trump / January 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd
but you can be happy if you've a mind to - Roger Miller

Buffalo Bill is back
in the White House for a while

But somewhere
buffalo bulls are sowing
and somewhere herds are growing

Four years of calves from now
the curves of one will pass the other
and you'll be happy if you've a mind to

The Buffalo Treaty https://buffalorelations.land Transferring intergenerational knowledge and sharing amongst Nations.

Harrowing Experience

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Deportation, Disruption, Immigrants, Robert Burns, Trump / January 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Wee, sleekit, cowrin. tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie. - Robert Burns

Two hundred and forty years ago
Robert Burns plowedshared through
a field mouse's home and contritely wrote:

That wee-bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble
Has cost thee monie a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,

Magaman promising now
to replay the incident with intent
to plow through and scatter the straw
of all that they have earned and built

O, what a panic’s anns an breasties

With some comfort later in the poem

The best laid schemes
o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley

Freeing the Minions

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Injustice, January 6, Justice, Pardon, prisoner, Trump / January 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

By yon courthouse steps
blindfolded Justice holds her scales

With a small smile today
that those sent on treason tasks
will not in dungeons dankness rot
while he who sent them sits a throne

Though just as happy
fair being fair
if he had joined them there

Image by Dieter from Pixabay

Prairie Trumpet

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Fear, Threats, Trump / January 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bull pawing the ground
doesn't mean he'll charge for sure
best run anyway

Sleeping on MAGA’s Couch

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Control, MAGA, Politics, Regret / January 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Primaried now and out in the cold
cause I couldn't be bullied to bend

You might be wearing the red hat now
could be eating orange snow in the end

Past Translating Present

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dictators, Joy, MAGA, Nazi, Perspective, Power, Regret, Trump / January 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In her youth she'd been a Hitler Youth
filled with purpose and power
and the joy of pre-teen camaraderie

All now dimmed and damned wheen seen
through smoke from Auschwitz ovens
though somewhere in her still it shines
brightest diamond of her life

This was the story, or was it two
she sought my help to put to poem

That was thirty years ago
I might do a better job today
informed by watching rallies
filled with power hope and joy
and how it will look in their regret

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Barb on Her Mother Sings to VioletsFebruary 2, 2025
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Nancy Fierstien on Titanic America IIJanuary 28, 2025
Thanks for the disciplined stroke of the pen you used to write every line! I hope it gets some folks…
Gail on In-TuitionJanuary 2, 2025
Love it! “The cost of this is only in the not.”
Ken Christopher on Missing the MysteryDecember 30, 2024
Yes, the Mystery is what keeps it exciting
Ken Christopher on Christmas CardsDecember 29, 2024
Yep, the sleigh got us to town on train day and me to school every day, the poem is a…

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