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Magdalene

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Easter, Faith, resurrection / April 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is storied that Mary Magdalene was the first person Jesus appeared to after his resurrection.

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Poets in Springtime

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Easter, Hope, Rebirth / April 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not the job of the poet
to speak of spring in the springtime

The task is to gather
the cool winds of April
to freshen your face in July

And all through the fallings of fall
and all through the dyings of winter

And all through the long days of Lent
all through the pain of the Friday
reminding us always of Sunday

Easter Saturday

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Easter, Jesus, Miracles, Prophecy, resurrection / April 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The impossible has happened
(silence)
The impossible is about to happen

The Reds of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Easter, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Spring / April 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A radiance of cardinals
an inebriation of winecups

Indian paintbrush
in a field of bluebonnets

Easter running down his ribs

A Manx’s Tale

Audio Recordings / tagged Cats, Death, Grief, Love, Mourning, pets / April 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's nothing as strong or as fragile as life
And nothing soft as a kitten's purr

And I'm awake and I'm sad and it's three in the morning
And it's Mother's Day and she doesn't even live in kittens

She and Jane would curl up together while I stayed up and wrote or worked or worried
Later I'd slip quietly into the warmth of
steady breathing and the soft blanket
of sound it rested on

In the night (not fickle but generous) she would go from bed to bed and bring to each of the children the comfort they might need
and lay down the same soft cushions for their sweet dreams

I don't know what her life was, or where it's gone or how to say thanks
and I can't sleep

It's two days now since she's been around
and the bedroom echoes
with the absence of her sound

Another for the Cat

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Cats, pets, Spring, Wild Animals / April 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It's spring again
and the cat won't stay in
feralmones must be kicking in

Photo credit: James Bullock with thanks to Lady Grey

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One for the Cat

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Cats, pets / March 31, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buffy at fourteen
down to only two speeds
catnap and catnip

The Bobcat

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Fear, Wild Animals / March 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Boy scout camp, St. Victor Saskatchewan. About 50 miles (80km) north of the Montana border

Image by milesz from Pixabay

Black Beauty

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Cats, pets / March 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When we moved to Grandfather's old farm
no on had been living there for a while
and all the cats had gone wild

We found a litter of kittens
hidden deep in a corner of the loft
and among them
the most beautiful black and white kitten

Spitting and crouching under the eaves
she scratched all of us to the bone
If I'd been a tree there would
have been six rings

Much persistence we got her out
much time and love and we tamed her
if one every really tames a cat

Best cat ever
adopted by our cousins when we moved
and one of the things we most looked forward to on our visits was Black Beauty and her newest of who knew how many litters

The tomcats in that town were also
excelled judges of beauty

Dervil

Audio Recordings / tagged Cats, Intelligence, pets, Reincarnation / March 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dervil was the only cat
I ever knew with opposable thumbs

He didn't really have them
but you could see
that he remembered them
from a recent incarnation
as a slightly lower life form

Studiously unrolling the roll and flushing it down the toilet

Standing tall to grasp and turn
handles on the doors

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