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Hey There

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Grief, Healing, Heartache, Loss, Music / August 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hey there
you with the scars in your eyes
love ever made a fool of you

Songwriters will change
the scars to stars and ever to never

Sometimes that sort of thing helps

That Important

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / August 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it." – Richard Brautigan

If a tree falls in the forest
and no-one has written a poem for it
the rest of the forest must come down
to provide paper for the writing of it

Poetica Fugit

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / August 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poems
peed in snow
or etched in ice
last at least till spring

Stick-marked in sand
until next breeze or tide

Rainforest rhyme - no time

First Poem

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Remembering / tagged Illness, Loneliness / August 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The summer I was twelve or thirteen
I had, at the same time
whooping cough and mumps

Every cough was fire
and unfair fate and gargling razor blades

It was summer, and I laid six weeks on a cot
in a screened porch and watched kids play by

Many years later I found, and lost again
a poem scribbled on a Rexall drugstore bag

A short rant with attempted humor at the end

What surprises and delights me now
when all was despair and nothing could be done
I was brought to poetry, and saved by a pun

In the Beginning

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Birth / August 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Small town doctor
tired and out of sorts
resenting a 3:00 am delivery
and snapping at his helping nurse

Stands little in awe of the first born son
come to save the ranch

One wonders if the promise of a poet
would have outweighed his desire for his bed

Hospital in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan

What Time

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Connections / August 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do" - Gertrude Stein

Can a photograph stop time

Do hours spent fishing
count or not count in length of life

Can east-west Concorde add
or harps in heaven be heard
without space between the notes

How long can a poem
write itself before it mentions it to me

Poets, Pilots & Cowboys

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / July 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A poet will try to dissect the world
and he'll try to show you each part
and he'll write it all down with a pen
that he's dipped in an old carin' heart

While pilots hae the eyes of a hawk
and a strut in the way that they walk
and they give all that's in them to give
and they live every moment they live

And most cowboys are gentle not loud
and they're not all that good in a crowd
and they talk like they're about half asleep
but what they know boys and girls
they know deep

The Cowboys The Pilots and Poets

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / July 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Cowboys the Pilots and Poets
The girls they say love them all

For the pilots have and air of the danger
of those who can die if they fall

While a poet's crushed - petal scent
reflects all their beauty and pain

And a cowboy has a feel of the open
and a smell we won't speak of again

Maybe the pilots help them feel
life's edge of purest blue

While the poets act as mirrors
to depths they never knew

And the cowboys oh the cowboys
can touch them where it hurts

And they've got those fast
snap button shirts

Charlie Golf Xray November Golf

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry / tagged Airplanes / July 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

STOL stands for
Short Take Off and Landing

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

Looking for a metaphor

Peaking of Poetry

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Art & Artists, Creativity / June 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They speak of writers past their prime
and nothing over forty worth your time

My trick
has been to start beyond that age
with my doggerel but a starving pup

Free to write
to a hundred with room left to improve

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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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