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In Vegas

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Gambling / February 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(which aint' Saskatchewan)

In Vegas
you can still double your money
by folding it over
and putting it back in your pocket

In Vegas
you can cheer the winners on
and enjoy the art the losers paid for

In Vegas
there is golf and glitter
and you can walk outside all winter

Las Vegas Mile

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Casino, Gambling, Slot Machines / February 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Check-in desk
to guest room elevator
through the fire swamp of
blinking eyes of unusual size
luggage axle-deep in quicksand carpet

A gift shop to the left
filled with booze and bling
and hopefully some red slippers
so we can click our way back to Kansas

Sleeveless in Seattle

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Coffee, Rain, Weather / February 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some years Seattle
gets more rain than London

and yet
its citizens are often seen
umbrellaless on the boulevards

with nothing but caffeine
between them and the elements

Rude Arrivals

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Contrast / February 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Returning
from Hawaii at thirty below
is a slap in the face for desertion

Stepping
off a plane in Phoenix in July
is the nuns being right for the price of sin

Glider

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Cars, Freedom, Happiness, Joy / February 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My heart soars like a hawk
- Chief Dan George

One of those days
(and I wish you many)
with the wind at your back
matching the speed of your car
and the top down or sun-roof open

And you a brother
to every soaring bird in the sky
untethered and feathered and at peace

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

Living on an Island Many Called a Farm

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Isolation, Story / December 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes a sailor from abroad
would cross the wide sea of sod

Telling to the adults tales
of cities, mountains and war

Though I had doubts at two
if any part of it was true

Grace in Austin

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Africa, Elegance, Poise / December 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young slim and beautiful
she crosses 6th street
where no crosswalk is
into a darkened doorway

No one moves like that
who has not in her life or genes
carried a basket across the savannah
filled with eggs without a crack
or water without a wave

Saturday Night in Austin

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Fun, Happiness, Joy, Music, Willie Nelson / December 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's something about country music
that gets you feeling two inches taller
and all the gals are prettier up there too

I don't think it's just the boots
or Lone Star on tap at the Broken Spoke
that's got everybody in the place
feeling like they got there on Willie's bus

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Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

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Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
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Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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