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Monthly Archives: August 2022

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
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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
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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
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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 

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Still Missing Georgian Bay

Audio Recordings, Travel / August 3, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Still missing Georgian Bay
Every day farther away
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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
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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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