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Poets on Dragons

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / September 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poets riding dragons
leap from tale to fairy tale
catch them if you can

Emily

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / August 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Again it is two a.m.
and I am Emily Dickinson

Deep in my books and solitude

Answering the small great questions
How am I
What kind of day has it been

Notes from a shut-in's bed
to friends a hundred years dead

Photo of Emily Dickinson’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts – now the Emily Dickinson Museum https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/the-museum/our-site/the-homestead/

Anna

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Oppression, Resiliance, Russia / August 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Could a drop of blood
from the pen of Anna Akhmatova
enter my blood
that I might write with a deeper red

A Husband falls to the firing squad
a son in prison for no greater crime
than carrying his father's name

Seventeen months by a Leningrad prison
sshe waits in line each day for word of life
mid screams of thse who learn of death

She has been a poet for thrirty years and more
woman in line asks, "Can you describe this"
she becomes a poet now

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Linsey-Woolsey Poetry

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Cloth, Fabric, Weaving / August 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With linen as warp of feelings
and wool as the weft of words
the whole thing holds together

Too much of one or the other
it chafes or just plain falls apart

Click here for the Linsey-Woolsey Definition

Punctuation

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Certainty, Communication, Questions / August 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Benny Anderson
the great Danish poet writes
of bending question marks
into exclamation points

But should there be
a squiggly mark halfway between
to denote some lingering doubt
before re-posting it out

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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A Friend Came and Went

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Solitude / August 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend came and went
loneliness now lonelier
will a haiku help

Candle Lake

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Birds / July 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Northern dawn
Soft haiku sky
Seven loons float by

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / July 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Saskatoon is a berry and a town
fabled in story and in song
juicy as the river running through it

It’s hard to get a poem
to beat like a beating heart
but visit with your stethoscope
and tell me what you hear

Just back from family reunion in Saskatoon adding to the heartbeat.

Lake Louise to Jasper

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Banff, Jasper, Rocky Mountains / July 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poet
struck dumb
by the folly
of throwing
a word against a mountain

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Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026
Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
LeoraLawrence Porter on Sacred DanceJanuary 18, 2026
Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…
barbara joy on MessagesJanuary 16, 2026
profound
Eda Lishman on For the PoetryJanuary 7, 2026
Neil: what a daily gentlre reminder ...this broight me many memories of walking out into the open prairie searching for…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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