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Tastes of Childhood

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Aging, Christmas, Experience, imagination, Literature, Traditions / December 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I was two or three
and my mother read to me

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole
I fell down the rabbit hole
tumbling over and over in the air
the memory is still there

Ribbon candy and real candles on the tree

Christmas chocolates made at home
from a factory recipe someone
slipped to someone on a train

Taste buds still budding
tasting with my whole body

Slowly I've forgotten how
only love and fear can do it now

Cloud Castles

Audio Recordings / tagged imagination / May 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every longing princess
can have a white knight on a charger
and every lonely child a puppy

On the Trampoline

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Children, Connection, imagination, Play / June 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Alura and I jump till we’re tired
decide my leg is broken in two places
and rest looking up at yellow butterflies
and squirrels playing in the twinning tree
as fall winds rock it toward a winter’s sleep

The young nurse writes prescriptions
lays on healing hands
sprays medicine from an atomizer pen
a few sharp-stick injections in the arm
and I am well again

Another Indian River memory

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay

Cloud Castles

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged imagination / August 4, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every longing princess
can have a white night on a charger
and every lonely child a puppy

Inspiration for this poem came from a 12th century Korean poem; Summer Clouds, by Chong Chisang

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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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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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