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Grandfather’s Pipe

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships, Remembering / August 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long after he had died
I used to smoke my grandfather's pipe

Not really one of his old pipes
but a knobby meerschaum that I had bought
probably because it reminded me of him
the sweetness of his tobacco and his being
At least it reminds me of them now
Or was it him smoking it and me

Grandfather’s Moustache

Audio Recordings, Family / August 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The moustaches
of my grandfather and Carl Jung
(Twins separated at birth)
have lives of their own

Jung's stays in Switzerland
combing the unconscious

My grandfather's travels to Brazil and to Canada
gathers rainforest moisture, dirty thirties dirt
and remnants of strong cheese and pipe smoke
(Carl's contains some of that too)

When grandfather sneezes, I get to share it all

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To The Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / August 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to the zoo with you
I went to the zoo with you

There were lions and tigers and elephants
and cotton candy too

but I went to the zoo with your
with you, with you, with you

Wind Cloud

Audio Recordings / August 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once the wind
thought it was a cloud

When it was told
this was not so
It cried and cried

Until it was only
wind again
I

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

Still Missing Georgian Bay

Audio Recordings, Travel / August 3, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Still missing Georgian Bay
Every day farther away

Missing Georgian Bay

Audio Recordings, Environment, Haiku, Nature, Travel / August 2, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Missing Georgian Bay
with its many shades of grey
and a million years a day

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 1, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
needs to look up from her art
geese may be flying

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