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Terminal

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Death, Heaven, Hell, Materialism, Temptation / January 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Direct flights
to heaven are for angels only

Most of us will have to go
through hell or Dallas on the way

Your luggage will be lost in Denver
and moving sidewalks mostly don't

The whole hall is one long mall
meant to tempt you on your way
and the big board for listing gates
never states which is the pearly one

Photo of Denver International Airport

Poetry Immersion Therapy

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Discovery, Growth / January 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Canada me and Graham
the only live people writing poems
and his were better than mine

In Austin everybody wrote poetry
although some called it music
and all of them were better than me
and that's the perfect place to be

So I followed them from mic to mic
and let their water clear my mind

And other bards from other lands
came to drink from that Barton Spring

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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Tuques

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Canadian History, Warmth, Winter / November 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty below
and time for tuques again
and gratitudes
for them that invented them

And the coureurs de bois
or the runners of the woods
that rocked them in the fur trade
Montreal to the Rockies and back

Or maybe from La Tuque Quebec
the only town named after a hat

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

Minot

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Insects / September 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hotels and motels
once had fancy ashtrays
and their names proudly on them
hoping you might take them home
and remember and come back again

In Minot, North Dakota
the Holiday Inn had a fly swatter
with its name in plenty point font
to encourage you to leave it or take it
and remember a place so full of flies

I have wonderful memories of Minot
but every time I harken back … Swat

Stone Hammers

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged First Nations, Native Americans / September 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In my house
two stone hammers
picked from the ancient land
where Cree and Blackfoot fought and died

Beside the deep ruts of the Red River carts
showing yet through a hundred years of grass

Mounted police on the Fort Walsh trail
to stop the whisky and move the rail

Stony silent bookends now
with many more stories to tell
than the pages they hold between them

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Birds / August 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
has to look up from her art
geese may be flying

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

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A Pointillist Dream

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Seurat kind of day
Sidney, BC or Paris
a pointillist dream

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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…
Anonymous on Why Children Are ChristmasDecember 23, 2024
So simple, so captivating! Nice Neil to give me the feel :) Murray A
Ken Christopher on John DeereDecember 21, 2024
Love it❤️

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