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What Charles Can’t Say Anymore

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Coronation, King Charles, Leadership, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Family / May 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The planet it warming
the rain forest is burning
much modern architecture sucks

When you get to be the king
you no longer get to do your thing
at least not the way you used to do it

Unlike his mom he can't just wear
a suit of yellow and flower of blue
to show Ukraine that his heart is there

They say his mother never set a foot wrong

This may be a little too much to expect
perhaps he will have to get by remembering
the worlds of his mentor Laurens van Der Post

"If I look after the footsteps, and lengthen my stride, the miles will take care of themselves"

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The Canon of Fodder

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Death, Sacrifice, War / April 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

And ain't every fodder
of every cannon
dying for someone else's sins

Sweet Jesus as their model

Dreams of Safety

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Hope, Identity, War / April 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Over the wall
fires are burning
and black clouds rolling

Out of black cloud rolling
a rainbow beaming

Out of rainbow beaming
raindrops falling

Each drop to its colour
clinging

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Man Upright

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth / tagged Death, evolution, Hope, Kindness, War / March 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Carpet bombings in Ukraine
Concentration camps in China
Mass shooting du jour in the USA

Who would blame you for believing
that man is a natural miserable critter
and any decency the rare exception

If you want to spit out that cactus turd
try starting out each day with a search
for someone doing something kind
even if it has to be you

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Limerick for Luhansk

Audio Recordings, Limerick, News / tagged Destruction, Fear, Grief, Russia, Solidarity, Ukraine, War / March 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Luhansk is a Ukrainian city currently occupied by Russia

There was a man a long year at war
where all about lay tattered and tore

He said to his wife
This is no kind of life

But let’s huddle together once more

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Not Being in Ukraine

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Atrocities, Death, Russia, Ukraine, War / March 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Not being in Ukraine
we have no right to write

Not being in Ukraine
our silence is a treachery

Ostap Slyvynsky is in Ukraine
he has a right to write of wrongs

It is two a.m. in Texas
I will not make them right by reading
will not wake anyone by not sleeping

In court there is a witness stand
made of dark wood dark things are said

If this were not so, no justice done
I will ask the steno to read them again

Ukrainian Poet Ostap Slyvynsky

Equanimity

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Hope / March 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mona Lisa smiled
through the French revolution
she'll be fine today

Survival

Audio Recordings, Family, News / tagged Death, Despair, Fear, Loneliness, War / February 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are wolves
everywhere and closer

Your parents are busy flailing
at the snarling snouts and dripping fangs

Busy wrapping their own and each other's bloody wounds

While you curl up, cold and lonely
in the bottom of the sleigh
thinking, I'll die if someone
doesn't pick me up and hold me soon

Thinking of the children of Ukraine on the 1st anniversary of the Russian invasion

A Poem in Waiting

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Death, Ukraine, War / February 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You’re early or they’re late
Cheap chairs and no mags
another covid cancellation

Time drags
Search for similes begins

Long lines
outside the Pearly Gates
after earthquake in Turkey

and Putin puttin’ on the blitz

February 24th marks the one year anniversary of Putin’s blundering blitzkrieg attack on Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkTCRWihPNo

Just Blues

Audio Recordings, News, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Death, Despair, Friendship, Sadness / February 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

“Nothing” the unjust man complained
“is just”(“or un-” the just rejoined
e.e. cummings

Just coughing my way thru covid

Just reading the morning news
full of earthquakes and arrogance

Just noting that the cow
(meaning the price of beef)
has jumped over the moon
and taken the lettuce with it

Just missing to the bone
my bucket brigade of joy
who have kicked it

Just not pulling off this time
that old cure for the curse

Just not feeling any better
because others got it worse

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