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Another Valentine

Relationships / February 15, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The ever petaled rose grows
year by joy by tear

how soft it smooths
the creases of the years
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Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Love, Valentine's Day / February 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Oregon in Winter

Flight, Nature, Travel / February 12, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The big plane slows, mists rise to meet it
droplets begin to play along the windows

My body, mostly water
falling through clouds, mostly water

I have been traveling some

The water in me comes from
the limestone caverns of Austin
the rivers of Upstate New York, and
million year old glaciers in the Rockies of Alberta

The clouds have been around the world
rising and falling as river, air and sea

Quiet now, as I am
I can feel them meeting again
hear them, telling stories
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View to the East

Haiku, Nature, String Too Short To Save / tagged Winter / February 11, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Reading haiku 
in the limb-veined dawn 
I do not long for spring
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Groundhog Day

Personal Growth, String Too Short To Save / February 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
While I feared my shadow
it was never spring
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Desiderata Revisited

News / tagged Philosophy / February 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The world may be
 
        unfolding as it should


though at present  

           a little morigami 
        
                 than I can crane
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Cold

Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Winter / February 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Decisions

Nature / February 6, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I was of three minds
like a tree
in which there are three blackbirds
 - Wallace Stevens
Rooted to the ground I wait
for one to fly away
and free me up to flip a coin
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Narcissus in the North

Uncategorized / February 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
How I grew more beautiful
all through spring and summer
           and into the golden fall

            Winter has been hard
            ice fishing for my face
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Winter on Mt Olympus

Poems about Poetry / February 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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  1. Anonymous on Rule BritannicaNovember 6, 2026

    Amen to that.

  2. Sandi Hebley on Ready for WinterOctober 26, 2026

    😁😁

  3. NEIL MEILI on Laughing With the DeadOctober 25, 2026

    Thanks for the story Sandi, And bet he is and that I would have liked him Neil

  4. Sandi Hebley on Okay Now – MostlyOctober 22, 2026

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  5. Sandi Hebley on Laughing With the DeadOctober 21, 2026

    One of my fondest memories is that the last full sentence my dad spoke was to tell a visitor a…

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