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Lost at Sea

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, ALS, Alzheimers/Dementia, Cancer, Death, Disease / May 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Uncles, aunts, old friends and more
all sinking below the metaphor
on the way to that distant shore

The keel hauling of cancer
Walking Gerhig's plank with ALS

Hanging from the yardarm
of emphysema's choking rope

The lightning stroke of stroke

The sudden iceberg of heart attack

The slow arctic crush of hoary old age
or slowly sailing, deeper and deeper
into Alzheimers' fog-bound banks

There are a though sand ways
to get back to the launching line
Not sure I'm ready to speculate on mine

Flying the Yellow Flag

News / tagged Covid19, Cowardice, Disease, Government, Quarantine / May 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Is covid the new cholera

Where leaders lead
or flag in their response

The more half-assed
the more half masts

History of yellow flags warning of diseasehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_flag_(contagion)

Nature and Nurture

Nature, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Disease, Quarantine / March 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Always a virus
sometimes the wolves cull the herd
sometimes herds circle

Image by Harald Matern from Pixabay

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The Sheep of Holland

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Disease / October 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sheep soft on the soft wet grass
between our house and the old windmill

Sheep running in the distance
a long row of cotton candy
pulled by an invisible string

March lambs gambolling
on the sides and tops of dikes

The black cloud of hoof and mouth
gathering over England
strikes as we leave

Watching the news in Atlanta
my farmer fear pulls me back

Memory revises

I stand in the bare fields
look at the bare dikes

Taste the burning wool

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Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!
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Thanks Kim, Sometimes the poems seem to know. Sorry for your loss, Neil
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Yep, tough love
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You could not possibly have known that today was the day that I had to have my beloved dog euthanized.…
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love it! Thanks, Neil!

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