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Lilac Time

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Experience, Flowers, Memory, Scent / June 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The nostrils of the young
though keen
receive but half a scent

How many years
til it be doubled by memory

As more words than one
are needed to make rhyme

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Dragons

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Travel / June 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Beyond the maps of the ancient world
There be dragons
Beyond the ways of parents and peers
There be dragons
Beyond the days of preachers and of teachers
There be dragons
Beyond where you know or have dared to go
There be dragons
A toe tip, a step, and a stride
Heart, arm and sword
steeled by the fiery breath
How sweet the dragon's meat
and the maiden's
Another mark on another map
Here be dead dragons

Where Were You In The Eclipse

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth / tagged Change / April 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Is it the covering
or uncovering of the sun
that you believe in mostly

Do you go quiet as a bird
fold your web like a Mexican spider
treat the omen as the end of your reign
or be the one to sit on the vacated throne

Stadiums along the path in America
were filled with people cheering
when the sun left and when it returned
while the winners sold hot dogs to them all

Through Eclipse Glasses Darkly

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged awareness, Perspective / April 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How you can shut a door
and open it again to a different view

How if you never noticed
what was on the other side before
you may not notice now

The Diamond Ring Effect

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Eclipse, Polarity / April 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun of thought
the moon of feelings
so oft in conflict and discord
have become as one again

And each will travel richer for a while
with the giftings of a little of each other

The Color of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth / tagged Growth, Seasons, Spring / March 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - Dylan Thomas

The color of spring
is not but grass and budding leaves

The color of spring
is that which wakes in us to greet it

The color spring
is our answering or calling from within

The color of spring

is there with eyes either open or closed

White Bluebonnet Blessing

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged First Nations, Hope, Native Americans, Peace, Wisdom / March 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A white buffalo calf is a big deal
and it is said White Buffalo Woman
brought the pipe of peace to the Sioux
Relating that legend Black Elk says...
This they tell,
and whether it happened so or not I do not know;
but if you think about it, you can see that it is true

In years to come they may speak of the spring
when the white bluebonnet
brought goodness back to Texas and the USA

Paradiso

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Faith, Heaven, Literature, Paradise, Religion, Searching / February 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Finally diving into Dante
skipping Inferno and Pergatorio
and straight through to Paradiso

Theory being that life will provide plenty
of coals to walk on with or without my help

Protestant at Catholic school
I've passed through the purgatory
of "No Questions" nuns teaching catechism

Heaven on the other hand
might still be a thing for earning
and worth the price of active search
with any maps and guides a blessing

There's Beatrice now, I'll follow her and let you know

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Tip-Toeing Into the Light

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Fear, Growth, transformation / January 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Swedish poet Erik Romberg wrote a wish
That one might be translated into light and song

And yet the fear
always that little niggling fear
that we might lose something in the translation

Take Time to Heal

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth / tagged Healing, New Year, Rest / January 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Take time to heal
Futures build on scar tissue
not open wounds

Wishing you a quiet reset and a happy new year

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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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