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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

Mona Lisa

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists / January 6, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I’m so thankful you were there
like a Mona Lisa fair

To show me things I’d never see
and to model for my poetry

Which is not to compare
the artist or the style

But only to confirm again
the value of a smile

Women

Audio Recordings, Relationships / January 5, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are women and women
and she was one of them

With enough encouragement
one thinks they can tell one from the other
Only to find he is wrong both ways

River Rocks

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / January 4, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rocks alone
corners harsh as habit

Rocks in relationship
time and torrent tumbled

Soft and smooth to the touch
as river bed as any bed so blessed

Image by RitaE from Pixabay

Covid Time

Audio Recordings / tagged Covid19 / January 3, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Time spent fishing
is not subtracted from life

and idling
does not add miles to a car

How then could covid count

Image by David Cardinez from Pixabay

Dali Had A Clock For That

Audio Recordings / tagged Covid19 / January 2, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There’s
this thing about time in Covid time

Days are longer than they are long
and nights shorter than they are short
and sometimes quite the opposite

I nap when it is not nap time
and sup when it’s not supper

Days do not pass in the present
though insist in adding up as lost past

They say all this will pass, how will we know

2020 In The Rearview Mirror

Audio Recordings, Haiku / January 1, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Objects may still be
nearer than they need appear
try windshield wipers

Moondust in the Footprints

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / December 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Over fifty years ago
Armstrong landed on the moon

He isn’t there now
but we celebrate it yet

And since
the past is not the past
but in the moment we remember

I remember
you and us, I remember

Happy Birthday Jane

Understanding the Feminine

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / December 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The moon has a bright side that we see in the skies or reflected in water or eyes
The moon has a dark side which can never be ours she uses it only to commune with the stars

In gratitude for the 13th and final full moon of 2020

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