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How Fallen Angels

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Blame, Sin / August 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How fallen angels
often insist they were tripped
and bad guys done it

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Unremember That

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Disappointment, Disillusionment, Information, Truth / August 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting
Amy Hempel - "Reasons to Live"

Though nowadays it might be wise
to treat all news as lies
obits and dead babies still seep through

And that thing you said about my perfect friend
that modified the modifier and the teller too
please tell me
that weren't true lest I lose not one friend but two

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Harem Scarem

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Death, Grief, Insecurity, Suicide Bombing, Violence, War / August 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Harems and bomb belts
men can't stand comparison
more virgins weeping

What is Heaven Like

Audio Recordings / tagged Afterlife, Belief, Faith, Religion, Suicide Bombing / August 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Is it a place of judgement or of none
Is it a toll gate or an open door
Some seem to know but don't agree
Is it a place where virgins go
for the pleasure of pleasuring forever
beards who blew up themselves and others
Some seem to know but don't agree

Is it a place of judgement of or none
or could it be that there's more than one
and we get to go where we feel most at home
Some seem to know but they don't agree

Ahead of the Curve

Audio Recordings / tagged Conflict, Excuses, Iraq, Religion, War / August 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rumsfeld and his posse coined a phrase
that gave them a free pass to attack Iraq
just in case Iraq might decide to attack

They called it preemptive retaliation

With prayer breakfasts every morning
asking perhaps for preemptive forgiveness
for all the sins they were about to commit

Them

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Blame, Others / August 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A four letter word
that puts all others to shame
who are we to blame

Herd Mentality

Audio Recordings / tagged Dehumanization, Separation, War, Xenophobia / August 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

North of the ranch house were the hills
named as a group and singly unfamed

Even old Frank who lived in a house
built full into one neer named the hill

Cows were a herd and never named
and a harem of horses was group only
until one condescended to carry you
and raised the relationship to naming

Armies, navies and those from away
were never parsed to persons

In Isreal many names and affections
in Gaza none
How to forget what I learned on the ranch

Rebuild

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Destruction, Devestation, Gaza, Isreal, Opportunists, Politics, Suffering / August 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What would a developer do
with the ruins of Gaza
and soon to be ruins of America

Pamphlets promise a paradise
or is it just a flip with loaded dice

In Translation

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Atomic Bombs, Japan, Reconcilliation, Survival, Survivors, War, WWII / August 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This week is
another Hiroshima anniversary
and this author's poems
are being translated into Japanese

They are in a book
of presence healing pain
what can they look
a Hibakusha in the eye and say

Hibakusha is the name given to those who survived the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, which took place 80 years ago this week.

Picking Raspberries in a Short-Sleeved Shirt

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Delight, Joy, Pain, Searching, Thorns / August 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

These are not roses
who will tear your heart out
with their beauty and its price

Though reaching through
the deepest bush
for the richest reds
will tickle-scratch you enough
to linger past taste buds fleeting joy

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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