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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

Palette

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Art & Artists, Beauty / February 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A farmer in a playful mood might plant
a field of purple flowering flax
beside a field of mustard yellow mustard

Van Gogh would give his other ear for such a sight

Ode to Frost on the Window

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Frost, Winter / December 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So what it you didn't go south for the winter

Palm trees are lovely
and also waters green and blue

But where in all that
can you be again reminded
that we are made of crystals too

Photo credit: Author’s grandson William Bullock

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A Gift in Winter

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Frost, Ice, Magic, Snow, Winter / December 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes
in the long dark of a winter night
the Swarovski fairy will pop by
and wand each tree to crystal

Run into the streets and woods
and thank her in the slant-light dawn

before
the burning envy
of the sun cancels out the spell

The Uncertainty of Snowflakes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Decicions, Snow, Winter / December 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Today the sky is filled with flakes

so soft and large and light
so suspended in their flight
that they can't seem to decide

Back to heaven from whence they came
down to rest on a downy bed
or float forever where they are

Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Delight, Magic, Words / December 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief magic shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over her shoulder as she sketched in the woods

A word for when the pure white horse trailing black reins came thundering past her and a friend on a Snow White day

For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I

Sheet lightning eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start in a point over your head and shower around you

For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other

Because of all this, it is now your word too

Thank you Gloria

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Reading the News and Watching the Butterflies

Audio Recordings, Nature, News / tagged Beauty, Conflict, Death, Peace, War / November 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The news is filled with dying and crying
the butterflies fillet from flower to flower

If butterflies could read the news
would they also feel too heavy to fly

The Farm, The Ranch and the Sweeping Scythe

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Adversity, Beauty, Death, Hardship, Weather / November 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sunrise can be brilly bright
and all day long
everything out to get you

The horse can kick or fall
the bull has horns of steel

Every machine is grinding its teeth
in wait for a chance to bite

and every snowstorm
eager to find you
too far from the barn
and stiffen you like the manure-pile cat

The sunsets worth surviving for

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Ukrainian Easter

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Beauty, Destruction, Hope, Pysanky, Rebirth, Ukraine, War / April 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Easter Eggs of Ukraine
are beautiful beyond imagining
and were not meant to be scrambled

Wishing peace and hope to those celebrating Easter today and Orthodox Easter next Sunday

Kaleidoscope

Audio Recordings / tagged Beauty, Perspective, Vision / March 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Having enough
vision in my left eye
to see colour and light
I'll install a kaleidoscope
and cover it with a pink patch

Then when shaking my head
about the world my right
and should be right is seeing
I can but lift the patch and wow

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Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!
Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil

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