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Halloween Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Consumerism, Consumption, Decorations, Holidays, Inflation / October 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Spending more this year on ghosts and goblins and gear the tricks on you dear
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Embracing Our Messengers

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Communication, Wisdom / October 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
We are lived by powers we pretend to understand W.H. Auden The demons and daemons are dancing and the head of every pin thick with angels The dead are with us and the long dead too with messages for the world and messages for me and you We are all guests at Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell but do we say "I do"
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Mensa Mortality Moan

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Death, Fear, Identity, Intelligence / October 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Smart enough to know can't take cash , but what if you can't take your IQ
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Two Dead Guys Walk Into a Bar

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Friendship, Heaven, Humor, St. Peter / October 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
(for Bill Mooney) What if you have to make the old saint laugh before he agrees to open the gate Working on a few lines just in case Sure would be good to see Mooney and the old gang again and I'm pretty sure that they got in
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Where Has All the Music Gone

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia / tagged Catholic, Faith, Music, Tradition / October 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Latin mass with the rhythm of a censer swinging The King James bible where the psalms were still songs Would I hesitate at the pearly gate to confirm that harps were still in tune
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Church Organ as MRI Machine

Audio Recordings / tagged Balance, Connection, Faith, Healing / October 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
All week long our protons pulled this way and that by the magnets of the world Sitting soft on a hard pew almost any Sunday the first chord of a hymn snaps them back in line again
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Sagrada Familia

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Architecture, Beauty, Church, Spain / October 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It took Antoni Gaudi to see that if a tree can be a cathedral a cathedral can also be a tree That is still stands is proof that the branches from its trunks can hold the canopy of the roof It is trite and true to say that Gaudi build poetry and I'd love to build a poem where one could come and sit as softly on a hardwood pew in a place so radiant lit
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Poet Trees in Fall

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Communication / October 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
(for Irving Layton) Branches naked in the wind pointing to their works below molding their way into the grave
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Rustlin’ Ain’t All About Cows

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall, Trees / October 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Down by the Blanco as the fall dances start Sycamore trees in the Texas breeze rustle their skirts round their knobbly knees
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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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  1. Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025

    Lovin' this one, line after line!

  2. Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025

    Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???

  3. Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025

    Indeed!

  4. Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025

    Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

  5. Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025

    Lovely!

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