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Sheets to the Wind

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Chores, Laundry, Memory, Scent, Winter / March 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Reminded by Marymae the other day of Monday's wash in Tuesday's wind and bending sheets to bring them in It was just enough starch and thirty degrees below in March And about how fingers got cold as hell but I think it was really about the smell Yes that was the part she wanted to tell it was really the freshness of that smell
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Ghosts in Winter

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Humor, Laundry, snowbirds, Winter / March 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In Saskatchewan they go south You can tell by the empty sheets and shirts flapping frozen on the line
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Practicing

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication, Connection, Frustration / March 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
This morning I am practicing being a ghost Thinking of all the people I can't quite touch all the thirsts I can't quite quench Waving my hands, reciting my poems saying see me ... see me

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay

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A Week in the Redwoods

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged California, Communication, Forest, Listening, Technology / February 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Trees taller than a cell phone tower The iPhone says you are not getting your messages The redwoods say - listen
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Redwoods in the Rain

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged California, Contentment, Trees / February 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Trees grow that high so they can sip fog from the sky But everyone enjoys a full-bib feast from time to time And it might just be the wind but I think I heard a sigh
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To the Buddha

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth / tagged Buddhism, Meditation / February 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
To the Buddha every tree is a bodhi tree you can join him there
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Doing the Work

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Depression, Faith, Growth, Struggle, Therapy / February 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Dark nights of the soul may come again This time I will have more candles
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Rinpoche at Esalen II

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation / February 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You cannot truly have a meditation until is is broken he says I sit deeper than I have ever been deepened by the 28 kindred souls as deep as they can go He hits the crystal bowl one quick ringing note A trap door beneath me opens and I fall
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Rinpoche at Esalen

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Esalen, God, Joy, Spirituality / February 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Small round happy Tibetan spirit bubbling teaching from his words and being The search for God is everything but it is not serious
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Bone on Bone

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Aging, Bravado, Experience, Healing, Injury, Masculinity, Pain, Therapy / February 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The achy side of middle age Julia Alvarez - The Cemetery of Untold Stories It is well though untrue to say my knees got like this from kneeling though might pray to have them bend again At Robert Bly's men's gatherings they pinned a ribbon where each wound had come from trying to be men I won't bore you with the many mine nor gie the younger advice to ignore as I would have ignored it in my youth and when they learn put ribbons on blue ones for pride and red for regret
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  1. Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025

    I love this poem make more like it

  2. Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025

    Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

  3. Neil on Dog YearsFebruary 22, 2025

    Thanks Kim, Sometimes the poems seem to know. Sorry for your loss, Neil

  4. Ken Christopher on Buddy TrainingFebruary 19, 2025

    Yep, tough love

  5. Kimberly Heinrich on Dog YearsFebruary 18, 2025

    You could not possibly have known that today was the day that I had to have my beloved dog euthanized.…

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