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An Invitation

Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Neil wanders the world in awe – Mirrors and metaphor everywhere. You can join him on this journey with a Poem in your Inbox every day.  Click Here to start today

 

Poetry at Bergen

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Language / February 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If Austin is the Athens of America Bergen is the Austin of Holland Sunday afternoon reading in seven languages Feeling the difference Harsh precision of the Dutch If you could understand the language you would understand the poem Russian The power of a shot of cold vodka and survival on the steppes Afrikaans Dutch rubbed smooth by the soft hills of Africa Latin Still the mother of language singing through her children Spanish Music of Lorca moving your body as you listen French Dark musings of Rimbaud a shrug in every verb English The fish does not see water but there was food everywhere
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Under the Porch

Relationships / tagged Dogs / February 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The thing about parents is they see you as they’d like you to be, and you ain’t The thing about teachers and coaches is they see you getting all those A’s and scoring on every play, and you cain’t The thing about dogs is Hey, quit lickin’ on my face you fool
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Hockey Night in Canada

Nostalgia / tagged Hockey, Montreal Canadiens, Sport / February 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Every boy across the land ears glued to the radio set Leafs against the Habs Battle of the Plains of Abraham fought again - shot by shot
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Steps in Time

Relationships, Travel / tagged Family / February 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Austin

Audio Recordings / tagged Kindness, Suicide / February 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day – this poem is a good reminder that even the smallest kind act, at the right time, in the right place, can truly change somebody’s world.

Patricia meets a young man in Austin He tells her a story about the time he decided to end it all Walking home from buying the gun he meets a woman on the street She smiles at him as they pass He throws the gun away
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Gracelets

Uncategorized / February 16, 2019 / 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 gracelets 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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Another Valentine

Relationships / February 15, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The ever petaled rose grows year by joy by tear how soft it smooths the creases of the years
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Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Love, Valentine's Day / February 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Oregon in Winter

Flight, Nature, Travel / February 12, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The big plane slows, mists rise to meet it droplets begin to play along the windows My body, mostly water falling through clouds, mostly water I have been traveling some The water in me comes from the limestone caverns of Austin the rivers of Upstate New York, and million year old glaciers in the Rockies of Alberta The clouds have been around the world rising and falling as river, air and sea Quiet now, as I am I can feel them meeting again hear them, telling stories
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View to the East

Haiku, Nature, String Too Short To Save / tagged Winter / February 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Reading haiku in the limb-veined dawn I do not long for spring
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