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The Branch Not Taken

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Choices, Detours, Introspection, Journey / February 21, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The limb on the road
travellers see and step over
to continue safely on their way

can trip a poet up
all the way to seed and roots
and all the leaves grown and lost

and every storm welcomed and feared
including the one last night that laid it there

AI Ain’t ME

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Artificial Intelligence, Emotion, Technology / January 20, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Computers he said
can write poetry as well
as girl or man or anyone can

Will not fear until I hear
how that computer feels
when it starts or stops a tear

Never Alone

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Companionship, Literature / January 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You need never sleep alone
if there's room in your bed for a book

Dickinson might have had Emerson

For the Poetry

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Education / January 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For the poetry
I have walked long walks
on large ranch with faithful dog
and picked the crocus from the earth

For the poetry
I have comforted
a mother and bowed to a father

Gone to schools
that taught strange things
and passed them on to others

Fallen in love and never out
rode horses and flown planes
and built buildings stick by stick

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Pickles and Poets

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Addiction, Art & Artists, Immersion / January 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

AA members
talk about how after
enough time in the brine
a cucumber becomes a pickle
and will never be a cucumber again

Maybe the same with poets
after enough time in the brine
of the reading and writing of rhyme
where a tumbler clicks and no way back

My Excuse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

W.S. Merwin. famous poet he
and the Torah use no punctuation

So now now whenever forever
I do not have either neither

Granary

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every poem is a granary

You can feed on what's there
or grow another from a seed

Image by Siggy Nowak from Pixabay

To Feel is to Understand

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Experience, Sharing, Story / January 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't show me
a ball of twine of your conclusions
without the threads that made it up

Is it heavy as the world
Atlas carried upon his back
or light as a child's bouncing toy

Show me the strings
of failure pain and joy

take me on your journey's track
that we may roll it forth and back

Poems Over Their Skis

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection / December 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poems belong to those that need them
Mario to Pablo Neruda in Il Postino

Sometimes poets and poems
think they know who needs them

Who it will change for the better
or who might laud them loudly

Well meaning though they might be
they've lost the plot if there was one

Let them open Neruda anywhere
and pull the string to loose the bow
or the gift he gave to you he did not know

Waxing Poetic

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / December 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

With old wooden skis
you hot waxed the bottoms
and polished them til they shone and slid
It is an art and a craft learned and earned

In the days before lifts
you climbed back each time to the top

There is a joy in the well carved run
both in the doing and in the watching

Poets love metaphor and simile
love the waxing and the polishing

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