January 2021 – Neil Meili

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Prophets and Losses

Audio Recordings, News, Relationships / tagged Belief, Cult, Dictators, Faith / January 16, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Our faith being true
sadly never guarantees
that object is too

Photo of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, German by ArtTower from Pixabay

Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Politics / January 15, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

6th - Auto immune disease ravages the body politic

13th - The body fights back

20th - Has a cure been found

- Will anti-vaxxers roll up their sleeves

Image by Anita S. from Pixabay

Im-Peaching the Poets

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Politics / January 14, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How to rhyme
in an unrhyming time

How to sound soulful
describing unsoulful subjects

Nothing rhymes
with orange, not even blood

Black and White

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Courage / January 13, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Old mister magpie
yin-yang trickster
coyote of the sky

Wearing on the outside
what I’m hiding
in the in

Black and white
and good and evil in
clear and equal measure

Sitting on a fencepost
scolding me for
a coward

Photo by Ovidiu Cozma on Unsplash

Eagle Eye at Eighteen

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Regret / January 12, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Golden Eagle hangs
on a string of grace
a hundred yards
to the west

I raise the 32-20
Winchester
and squeeze off
a shot

Dead hit in the breast
the string breaks and it drops

Quick voice in my head
Damn fine shot

Slow voice from my heart
Damn fool

Wake Turbulence

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Winds of Change / January 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Deep in the night the great horned owl
strokes silence with silence

If you land a small plane behind a 747
(Don’t land a small plane behind a 747)
If you land a small plane behind a 747
the invisible vortex from its wingtips
can toss you back into the air
or slap you hard into
the ground

Behind the great owl
the softness of its passing hangs in the air

The Bobcat

Audio Recordings, Nature, Remembering / January 10, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Close by the Boy Scout camp
I came upon a bobcat in a tree

I looked at the bobcat
and the bobcat looked at me

She was poise and beauty
and one with where she sat

I was knob knees shaking
knob knees shaking and a funny hat

Boy scout camp, St. Victor Saskatchewan. About 50 miles (80km) north of the Montana border

Image by milesz from Pixabay

The Badger

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / January 9, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Observe the Badger
creature of the earth

See how she moves with the grace and ferocity of tectonic plates

Observe the badger
but do not try to pet
her soft earth softness
Do not let your hand
get caught
between the plates

Speaking of Rats

Audio Recordings / tagged Politics / January 8, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are no rats
in the province of Alberta
(You could look it up)

The borders I hear
are patrolled by patrols

Not sure how that works
poison traps and clubs perhaps

Eager boys with 22’s

Or school pipe bands facing
outward playing Hamelin songs

The lunar Year of the Rat runs from January 25th 2020 through February 11th 2021.

Equanimity

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Perspective, Politics / January 7, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mona Lisa smiled
through the French Revolution
she'll be fine today

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