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Dad and Saint Peter

Cowboy Poetry, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship / August 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I'm not here for the harps Just direct me to the party where all my old friends gather now

Velcro 2

Personal Growth, Relationships / August 10, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Velcro has two sides
and will not stick to shine

A bully walks by
I react like the past is true
while nothing seems to stick to you

Authority with a scowl
withers you to weak knee give
while others smile and let them live

Velcro has two sides
sometimes a loop sometimes a hook

If it sticks and pulls it’s time to look

Velcro

Relationships / August 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Velcro has two sides and doesn't stick to shine or hook to hook or loop to loop and sometimes never yours to mine

How The Ear and the Eye

Nature, Relationships / August 7, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How the ear and the eye
both sender and receiver be

How like the sun
you warm all that you softly see

And do not think
dear hammer anvil ear
that little drum plays but for thee

CRYSTAL PALACE

Relationships / August 6, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

People are glass houses and should not throw stones

The Inner Critic

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Psychology / August 3, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poor little Keystone Cop
(although often not so funny)
leaping from shoulder to shoulder
trying so hard to keep us safe
Yelling or whispering in each ear
the old rules based on fear

Telling us
what we should have done
and what we should never do
enforcing rules learned long ago
that may no longer be true

The voice of your mother still
nags when your room’s not neat
The voice of your father
still wants you up at dawn
Your teacher and your coach
Your country and your culture
Your parents and your younger selves
with messages to keep you safe

The cop only knows
what he used to know
and still does what he was told to do
You don’t have to destroy him
or shove him out the door

Just put your arm around him
and tell him
you’re no longer four

Dad and Roy

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Friendship / July 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad and Roy were the best of friends
they drank and fought and played
and laughed like nobody laughed
for fifty years and more

Dad had a room in the nursing home
way down at the end of the hall
When Roy was admitted as well
a nurse wheeled him down that hall

They sat footrest to footrest a minute
then Roy said “So it’s come to this”
and they both had a hell of a laugh
Dad died in late December
Roy lasted three months more
They are buried twenty feet apart
in the prairie town where they played

I can see them there now
sitting on their shiny new stones
having a smoke and a chew
and a good pull on a forty of rye

Roy says “So it’s come to this”
and they both have a hell of a laugh

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Mood Descending a Staircase

Relationships / July 29, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What do I do
if daring to share
I bring you down too

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Never More Beautiful

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Cancer, Death, Friendship / July 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Visited last year and again last month
with old friend Lee in Tennessee

Ten years and more of cancer
and that Chattannooga choo choo
may be pulling out soon

The skin more and more transparent
the soul more and more shining through

I expect by the next time we drop in
a floating glimpse of Alice’s cat
with a Mona Lisa grin

War Wound

Relationships / tagged Dehumanization, War / July 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You got it in the barracks
you got it with the gun

You got it when they taught you
not everyone is one

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