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What a Picture is Worth II

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / December 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A picture
may be worth a thousand words

And a haiku
by Basho worth ten thousand pictures

What a Picture is Worth

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Intimacy / December 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A picture
is worth a thousand words
but less than half a whisper

Image by Bianca Van Dijk from Pixabay

An Ode to Odes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / December 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Odes being songs of praise
should they not merit praise as well
giving and receiving being equal
if equal apertures be open

Who more jolly than Santa
soot covered though he be
and who more Mary looing
than a mother with baby at breast

Examples being circles all
this ode shall have no endings

After the Death

Audio Recordings / tagged Anguish, Death, Grief, Loss / November 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Orli and Gideon)

These are the days of the rats in the cages

The burrowing into sawdust corners
and gnawing on bars
and the running on wheels
mostly the running on wheels

Even at night, specially at night
white God in his lab coat naps in the corner

and you know with perfect logic and insanity

If you could just do it fast enough
if you could just do it right enough

Like the wheels of old watches
all the cogs would fit the way they used to
when the good ones all had jewels
sleeping safe in their dark cases

And each morning you had to wind them up
if you wanted hours in your day

And you know, wish, know, wish, know,
that this is another way that this must go

And if you could just get the woulda, coulda, shoulda, could, woulds, shoulda, woulda, coulda, shoulda , wheels to mesh their gears just right

You could turn it all back

The 20th year of celebrating the short but impactful life of Tildan with a memorial swim in her honor

This Times a Thousand

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Communication, Frustration, Misunderstanding, Sadness / November 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What I wanted to say
was that words can't say
what I was wanting to say

There are languages
that I do not know
that say it in pictures

Maybe if I learned a few
I could finally say to you

Or fail a thousand times as sadly

Stranger Connections

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Compassion, Love, Wisdom / November 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The small round Rinpoche at Esalen
was teaching Tibetan compassion

Start from where you are he said
feel the love you feel for one or two
or the people nearest dearest to you

Holding that feeling indiluted
add one more and then one more
til you start to feel the feeling fade
then pull back in til you feel it again

Sit with this today all day
and tomorrow try to add another
and if that works then add another
til every man becomes your brother

Buddha with a Tuque

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Calm, Serenity, Silence, Snow, Winter / November 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Serenity descends

Tuques

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Canadian History, Warmth, Winter / November 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty below
and time for tuques again
and gratitudes
for them that invented them

And the coureurs de bois
or the runners of the woods
that rocked them in the fur trade
Montreal to the Rockies and back

Or maybe from La Tuque Quebec
the only town named after a hat

Icing on the Cake

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Autumn, Beauty, Fall, Seasons, Winter / November 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The year is ending
first snow falls on last leaves
icing on the cake

November Snow

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Seasons, Snow, Winter / November 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sky was raining rabbit tails today
with no waft of wind to trouble them
And where they lit a banquet lay

Icing sugar thick on berries red
and brick waffles with whipped cream

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Very nice!
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So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
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Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
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Anger contained in love
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Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!

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