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Oregon in Winter

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature, Travel / January 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The big plan 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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Down Under

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Faith, Reincarnation, Religion / December 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Flying toward the sunset
crossing the International date line
you do not exist on this earth for a day

You may be in heaven or hell
depending on who you are meeting there
and it may seem or be that you're there forever

Fortunately there are alternatives
plenty of religions believe in return tickets
and you may get to fly again into another sunrise

The Busman’s Holiday

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Writing / May 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I’ve done it now
run out of places to hide
painted myself into a corner
surrounded on every side

For like every pilot
that ever learned to fly
I’ve got to help the captain
when I’m in the sky

And the time I’ve spent a thumbing
and a hauling heavy loads
links me with the Gypsies
that I meet along the roads

And if I look from side to side
at the land along the way
why the farmer and the rancher in me
wants to have its say

And if I should stop to rest
at an inn along the way
the years I’ve spent in
running one
with constant detail mars
my stay

If that wasn’t bad enough
now I’ve started out to write
and every shadow, thought,
or urge that comes to me
both day and night

has a message and a pull
to my soul and to my pen
so that I may never be
alone - or at rest again

The Day I Saw the UFO

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Ranch Life / December 18, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I'm sitting
with my back against the tractor tire
eating lunch in the long field by the lake

It flies over directly south to north
plenty high and far from humanly fast
It is made of a metal that shines out of itself
I rise with a smile
brush the crumbs from my jeans
set my eyes on the furrow
and let out the clutch

I Am Pelican

Audio Recordings, Environment, Flight, Nature / tagged Aboriginal, Birds, Colonialism, First Nations / October 2, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Vs of Spring

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature, Travel / tagged Birds / June 17, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Canada geese
are hurrying back now
to the country of their birth

Flying over field and swamp
over borders they don’t heed

Over their park- lazy cousins
who do not feel the joy or need

Image by minka2507 from Pixabay

Wake Turbulence

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Winds of Change / January 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Deep in the night the great horned owl
strokes silence with silence

If you land a small plane behind a 747
(Don’t land a small plane behind a 747)
If you land a small plane behind a 747
the invisible vortex from its wingtips
can toss you back into the air
or slap you hard into
the ground

Behind the great owl
the softness of its passing hangs in the air

Looking Down and In

Audio Recordings, Flight / tagged Perspective / December 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Looking down
from high buildings people are ants

Looking down from high planes
they are invisible and real as inside us
all those millions and billions of life forms
work and scheme for our good or our demise

Charlie Golf Xray November Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Airplane, Maule, Plane / August 27, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

STOL stands for
Short Take Off and Landing

Get off the ground
In a hundred and fifty feet
stick a landing in about the same

Looking for a metaphor

Author’s Maule M5-235 Calgary, AB Canada

November 7858 Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Relationships, Travel / tagged Airplane, Cessna, Plane / August 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You never forget your first

Beauty is nice, and grace
but if it is to lasting be

forgiveness is the key

Author’s first airplane, Cessna 172 Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, AZ

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