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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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Groundhog Day

Personal Growth, String Too Short To Save / February 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
While I feared my shadow
it was never spring
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Desiderata Revisited

News / tagged Philosophy / February 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The world may be
 
        unfolding as it should


though at present  

           a little morigami 
        
                 than I can crane
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Cold

Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Winter / February 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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