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Memories of Frank

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Coach, Mentor, Notre Dame, Pere, School, Teacher / September 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In 1955
me and my parents drive
the summer deserted streets of Wilcox
trying to figure out
where the college might be

and come upon a tall young man
nailing siding to a building

It is Frank Germann
who guides us to Pere
Guided me through years of college
and in many ways still guides me to this day

It my be metaphorically perfect to have
first seen Frank with a hammer in his hand

Just as Pere was not only the builder
but also the material with which God built

So was Frank

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All the Days

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering, Travel / tagged Grief / September 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sparkling that heavens the earth - Galway Kinnell

In all our travels together
magic was afoot a -yard a-mile

I still have your laughter on the tape
world and heaven have your smile

Tears of Sugar

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Funeral, Gratitude, Grief, Joy / September 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tears of sugar
tears of salt

So beautiful or so sad
and sometimes half and half

Like stories at a wake
- Oh how she made us laugh

Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Grief / September 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

another one for Sharon
Another poem today
and you not there to share

No answer to my whisper
and no answer to my shout

The box canyon's had the end blown out

Motherin’ Up

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Coping, Grief / September 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes you lose a cow
sometimes you lose a calf
You wrap the orphan
in the dead calf's skin
and the mother takes her in
like kin
Gold enough there for a country song
It's a hurtin song - you can sing along
About true love died and true love gone
and foolin yourself just long enough
to keep on keeping on

Goodnight Marilyn

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Elvis Presley, Heroes, Idols, James Dean, Jesus Christ, John Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Profit, Robert Kennedy / September 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dyin ain't easy but it's a living

Heroes will be expected to die young
to keep their fans from growing old
and will be well rewarded
in unspendable gold

If it’s sex you give then sex it pays
so take along the two young Ks

Though a frozen-instant Porsche crash
could be worth a lot of cash

And the Colonel smiles as money piles
for haunting supermarket aisles

But for biggest gross and longest run
it’s still the cross at thirty one

Dark Eyed Lady

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / August 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

An instant connection
with riches and light
that's deep than centuries
and warmer than life

Though if death's darkness
is as welcoming as this
no wonder people hurry
to sink into that bliss

And though I'm pretty sure
I'm not ready to be dead
I'd like to sit by those waters
and rest my weary head

And drop pebbles of my poetry
just to watch the ripples spread

Ode to a Dying Rose

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Death, Life / August 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If poems could not
be written about love and death
the shelves would be lighter for it

How much lighter you ask

How about empty

Grandfather’s Pipe

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Relationships, Remembering / August 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long after he had died
I used to smoke my grandfather's pipe

Not really one of his old pipes
but a knobby meerschaum that I had bought
probably because it reminded me of him
the sweetness of his tobacco and his being
At least it reminds me of them now
Or was it him smoking it and me

To The Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Remembering / August 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to the zoo with you
I went to the zoo with you

There were lions and tigers and elephants
and cotton candy too

but I went to the zoo with your
with you, with you, with you

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