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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

Sitting at the Feet of Maya Angelou

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / June 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Gandhi is gone

Guatama is gone

Jesus and Mohammed to long ground
into true believers' meat
I wouldn't know them on the street

And Socrates and Plato would speak Greek

But, right here and right now
so close we almost touch

I bask and revel
in purest presence
and direct transmission
from this poetic patron saint

Will my life and poems change?

This is a woman
who for years did not speak
because her worlds could kill a man
and now speaks words that can save him

Will my life and poems change?

Poem arising from a Maya Angelou reading in Calgary, Alberta, with the author and his daughter Roberta in the front rows.

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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Land Breathing Deep After Rain

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Creativity / April 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A line in a dream
that I grab and hold till morning
Let sit for a week and start to write
the last line of a thousand poems

You meet me at the airport
after a long away and a long flight
Land breathing deep after rain

Old college buddies gather for a beer
Land breathing deep after rain

Brothers and sisters at the lake
cousins building in the sand
Land breathing deep after rain

Write yours here

__________________________

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Land breathing deep after rain

A Prairie Villanelle

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Travel / April 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If prairie wheels again had I
I'd chew the gravel and the air
with prairie roads to fly

I'd plume the earth into the sky
to show them I was there
if prairie wheels again had I

Past places where dead neighbours lie
I'd not linger, who would dare
with prairie roads to fly

Dust to dust gets in your eye
I'd look for other things to share
if prairie wheels again had I

Then greener farmyards I'd pass by
in mem-mirages free of care
with prairie roads to fly

I'd roll past all that makes you cry
afloat in susnsets clear and fair
if prairie wheels again had I
with prairie roads to fly

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