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Fishing with Father

Relationships / May 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fishing with father
you may catch his attention
deepest fish in lake

Reed Between the Lions

Audio Recordings, Relationships / May 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My mother’s will was always
stronger than my won’t

My father’s won’t was always
stronger than my will

Caretaker soft or Cowboy strong

How quick I learned to change my face
to face the faces that I faced

I can still spin that mirror now so you
can see the face you want to see

But neither you nor I will know
which one is me

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Climbout Sunsets

Audio Recordings, Flight / May 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

John Gillespie Magee
slipped the surly bonds of earth
reached out and touched the face of God

Planes are bigger and faster now
I in my Aero Commander
commander of the air

Climbing at dusk have set the sun
on the lip of the world
and held it there

Have rode the Concorde
faster than the speed of sound
and faster than the earth goes round
that can lift it up where it went down

And there are times I’d best the lark
to try to hold or yet turn back
baby’s smiles and love’s first spark

I think Magee, the reverence would see
as we all fight the dying of the light
and try to touch the Sistine finger
a little longer before night

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Rekindled

Audio Recordings, Relationships / May 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Babies
bright smiles
that warmed and seared your heart

Long banked
in photo album embers

One
grandchild’s grin
and you’re ablaze again

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Indian River, Ontario

Haiku, Nature, Travel / May 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Above waterfall
in circle of highest pine
green showers down

By the waterfall
body rests in hammock
cells rush to the sea

Below waterfall
power beyond soap and rub
washes off city

Lying by the bank
trees holding blue hammock
lift it to the sky

Indian River
great blue heron stands
wise Tibetan monk

Flying the Concorde

Flight, Pilots, Travel / May 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I am not immune to the desire
to wind the stem of old time back
and with as much success as most

Except when the Concorde flew the sky
and I, pilot to pilot in the cockpit stood
and watched the earth reverse for me
on a flight from London to DC

What have I done you ask
with the slice of time I stole

Saved it in a bank of cloud
above the ocean eight miles up
where I can go if I ever wish
to write a check for a smile or a kiss

Don’t Worry Mate

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Ranch Life, Travel / May 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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The Alp Leaps Up

Nature, Travel / May 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The alp leaps up
like a chamois shot

that hid behind
soft cloud and hill

and breaks us
with its broken beauty — Photo taken from train between Munich and Vienna

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A Train

Travel / May 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Munich - Salzburg - Vienna 2019

The thing about a train
is that your feet never leave the ground

Though your toes
must curl in elfin curl
from hide of cow to wheels of steel

as you travel the rails
of others trails that lead you to your own

Riding in Cars with Kinder

Travel / tagged Children / May 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Düsseldorf in spring
I share the back seat jail
with a kinder just turned one

Bindings force our faces
face to face

We laugh
at each other’s laugh
until the whole car shines

The world is indeed small
and round as two bellies quaking

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