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No Smoking After

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged delusion / February 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The praying mantis
does not kiss and tell

He has heard the rumours
but thinks, and don't we all
that he will be the one exception

Coupling

Relationships / tagged sensuality / February 16, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Even in this moment
somewhere in the city
there are couples coupling

The best and the worst
coupling, coupling, coupling

At the highest peaks of love
and the lowest forms of crime
somewhere in the city couples coupling

Old Sappy Love Song

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Love / February 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Heart
carved in
a maple tree
weeps sweet in memory

Genesis A Love Story

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Love / February 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the first day God created light
on the fourth the sun and moon and stars

I see and feel the sun
court the moon and awe the arching stars

But what of the light before the light
is that the light I see in you

Valentines

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Appreciation, Communication, Love, Writing / February 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every Saint Valentine's Day
one should write a poem
to their beloved

Not just to remind them
how lovely they are
And your burning desire
to show it

But also how lucky you are
to know that you know it

Lonely Light

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Desire, Loneliness, Yearning / February 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All the lonely
light the sun sends out

in search of linkage and reflection

that slips past
planets like Mars and ours

The dateless
in a corner at the prom
with such aching gifts to give

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There Are Loves

Audio Recordings, Relationships / February 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are loves
that come with the wrapper off
Gods and mothers come to mind

There are loves
that must be learned
some may say must be earned
in the basement suite of loneliness

If You Don’t Know Snow

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Forgiveness, Winter / January 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you don't know snow
forgiveness is an empty word

With dynamite he tried
to open up the drifted road

It absorbed the blow complete
and expanded back to fit the hole

May your friendships softly follow

Tourists Lost and Found

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Connection, Experience / January 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

To go to a church
and not say a prayer
offends the makers of candles

Any anywhere and every everywhere
has a wish to bless and be blessed

If there are waters swim in them
if there are parties sing at them
if a funeral, cross yourself as it passes

The taking of pictures and giving of
money are top of the skin exchanges

All the world is lonely as you
what you do for it, it will do for you

A Word in the Woods

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Affection, Energy, Trust / January 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you
in need or wild abandon
throw your arms around a tree
it is the tree that hugs you back

But don't
be so sanguine with a porcupine

There are people in this world
who live in joy and trust in God
and being with them so do you

And some so filled with static of fear
that your hair stands up when near

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Sandi Hebley on Lonely LightFebruary 12, 2026
How sweet!
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…

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