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Envy of the Lithe and Limber

Audio Recordings, Flight, Ranch Life / tagged Ability / August 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How in the air they spin

In circuses and cirque soleil
and Barishnikov in the ballet

Cartwheels, flips and pirouettes
like Blue Angels in their jets

their bodies that is but not mine

Unless you count the time in air
bucked off again by that old mare

Word Divisions

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication / August 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can know your native language
and still feel all alone
as pilots talk to pilots
in a code that’s all their own

Yet not even one to one
can they share that love of air
or touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

Sailors talk to sailors
of wind and sail and rope
of nights upon the ocean
of courage and of hope

Yet the words just can’t convey
their love of sea and air
nor touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

And though cowboys talk to cowboys
in a special kind of drawl
there’s still a space between them
the words can’t tell at all

Not those nights of cold and stars
with coyotes on the air
nor the call of open spaces
with the fear and beauty there

Watch as lovers talk to lovers
in ways only two can share
as they build between them
a framework light and fair

While a web that’s spun of maybes
hangs so fragile in the air
that one false word can shatter
into pain, the beauty there

And yet

There are still some crazy poets
out riding hatless in the sun
still trying to do the very thing
we all know can’t be done

Still Quixoting for a language
that can speak to everyone

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Deer Valley Airport

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nostalgia / tagged Airplanes, Aviation, Friendship, Pilots / August 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The man who flies an airplane... must believe in the unseen - Richard Bach

In the northern environs of Phoenix
the air is dry enough for old airplanes
and The Red Baron bar wet enough for dry pilots

Along the double row of yellow hangers
A Mark X1V Spitfire, a 1930’s Great Lakes
a Ryan pt 22 Eisenhower supposedly soloed in
and Jim Higgins’ WW1 reproduction SE-5a biplane

Whether you are hangering a Cessna or a T-33
you are part of a private club with no paperwork or fees
and get to sip champagne with Blue Angels after the show

In honor of National Aviation Day and all the author’s friends in the sky

Wake Turbulence

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Birds / July 7, 2024 / 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 sla you hard
into the ground

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

Barn Swallows

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Ranch Life / tagged Birds / July 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They swoop
from beneath the eaves
carving an invitation
to the big red ship
Come slip your moorings
and follow us across the sea

Deluge at the Austin Airport

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Delay, Storm, Weather / May 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waves of rain and wind crash against the windows
planes hunker tight to tarmac while planes from away stay away

Inside, the rippling masses flow from changed gate to changed gate
seeking connection with any uniform with information on connections

Every hour brings another announcement of another hour late
until the whispered ‘canceled’ appears up on the board

Dreams of Flying

Audio Recordings, Flight / tagged Death, Dreams / April 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For getting out the window
the best stroke is the breaststroke
after you get up speed soaring is easy

I wonder if that's what dying is like

I wonder if Chagall
or Tibetan guides through the bardo
have any hints on how to stick the landing

Charlie Golf Xray November Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry / March 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

November Eight Triple One Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / March 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Below the Rim

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / March 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you had your own plane
and a bit of scoff lawlessness

You could drop down below the rim
at the far western end of the canyon
and fly most of its lobiquitous length
with the setting sun over your shoulder
lighting up the rocks all along your path

If you or anyone ever said
you'd spent too much on that plane
your mind would go back there again.

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Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil
Gerri Aiudi on Dad and RoySeptember 21, 2024
great poem ... love it
Ken Christopher on Old Wives Lake MassacreSeptember 11, 2024
Yes!!!!!!
Gerri Aiudi on Old Wives Lake MassacreSeptember 11, 2024
I love this and Stone Hammers
Ken Christopher on Sitting in My Father’s DeskSeptember 2, 2024
Very good!, I liked’d the Emily Dickinson one too, powerhouse babe all from the solitude of her room. Shen you…

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