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Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connections, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mum, Royal Family, United Nations, Winston Churchill / May 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They talk about degrees of separation

With apologies to Kevin Bacon
I like to think in degrees of connection

When I helped Madeleine Albright
down from that one tricky step
it was also everyone at the UN
and anyone who was anyone
in politics and power for thirty years

President Ford was a nice man
with a football player’s hand
that had shaken more than a few

When the Queen Mother in her 90s
was our guest in the Saskatchewan Hotel
I held her hand in both of mine a little
longer than called for in the book of protocol
wanting to make sure that Churchill got through

Long Wait the King

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Coronation, King Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Royalty / May 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Charles has been so long in the wings
that his feathers have lost some shine

All his best polo ponies have died
and corners knocked off of his pride

His mother unprepared yet prevailed
this much practice should have it nailed

Prince Charles, age 4, beside his grandmother at his mother’s coronation
Westminster Abbey, June 2, 1953

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What Charles Can’t Say Anymore

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Coronation, King Charles, Leadership, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Family / May 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The planet it warming
the rain forest is burning
much modern architecture sucks

When you get to be the king
you no longer get to do your thing
at least not the way you used to do it

Unlike his mom he can't just wear
a suit of yellow and flower of blue
to show Ukraine that his heart is there

They say his mother never set a foot wrong

This may be a little too much to expect
perhaps he will have to get by remembering
the worlds of his mentor Laurens van Der Post

"If I look after the footsteps, and lengthen my stride, the miles will take care of themselves"

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