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Emily

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / August 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Again it is two a.m.
and I am Emily Dickinson

Deep in my books and solitude

Answering the small great questions
How am I
What kind of day has it been

Notes from a shut-in's bed
to friends a hundred years dead

Photo of Emily Dickinson’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts – now the Emily Dickinson Museum https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/the-museum/our-site/the-homestead/

Anna

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Oppression, Resiliance, Russia / August 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Could a drop of blood
from the pen of Anna Akhmatova
enter my blood
that I might write with a deeper red

A Husband falls to the firing squad
a son in prison for no greater crime
than carrying his father's name

Seventeen months by a Leningrad prison
sshe waits in line each day for word of life
mid screams of thse who learn of death

She has been a poet for thrirty years and more
woman in line asks, "Can you describe this"
she becomes a poet now

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Linsey-Woolsey Poetry

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Cloth, Fabric, Weaving / August 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With linen as warp of feelings
and wool as the weft of words
the whole thing holds together

Too much of one or the other
it chafes or just plain falls apart

Click here for the Linsey-Woolsey Definition

Paralympics in Paris

Audio Recordings / tagged Ability, Challenge, Competition, Excellence, Sport / August 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every sport has its hurdles
where you are and where from there
and blocks before the starting blocks

Medals are medals and worth the winning
even if you bite the gold because you cannot see it

Celebrating the start of the Paralympic Games in Paris

Healthy Is

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Health, Pain, Pleasure / August 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Healthy Is
not feeling your body
until someone touches it

Envy of the Lithe and Limber

Audio Recordings, Flight, Ranch Life / tagged Ability / August 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How in the air they spin

In circuses and cirque soleil
and Barishnikov in the ballet

Cartwheels, flips and pirouettes
like Blue Angels in their jets

their bodies that is but not mine

Unless you count the time in air
bucked off again by that old mare

Big Tent Politics

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Humor, Kamala, Trump / August 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns
who paint their faces in funny colors

Not far from here is a circus
with a lady on a high wire on a horse

In case you wondered what clowns fear

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Birds / August 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

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A Pointillist Dream

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Seurat kind of day
Sidney, BC or Paris
a pointillist dream

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