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Circles

Audio Recordings / tagged Aboriginals, First Nations, Wisdom / January 18, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Primitive peoples see life in circles
but we've tried to straighten them out
taught them hot to get ahead
and what life's really about

For we know the ways of progress
and we're moving along just fine

But did we forget to our own regret
that there's nothing inside a line

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Sacred Dance

Audio Recordings / tagged Community, Healing / January 17, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Bushmen of the Kalahari
dance all night in a circle
dance a calf-deep trench in the sand

In a circle around the circle
sit those in need of a healing

And because it is a sacred dance
any dancer at any time may step
out of the dance and do the healing
and then return to the dance again

Knowing without knowing
that everyone is a healer sometimes
everyone needs a healing sometimes

You just keep dancing

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Messages

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Connetion / January 16, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When someone in camp could see
what the scout saw twenty hills away

When a bushmen hunting party
brings down an eland in the Kalahari
and those at home begin building
their small fire larger for the cooking

When Tesla knew the moment
his mother back in Europe died
new ideas of electricity come to life

Somewhere out there in this moment
there may be messages for you
but who and what are you tuning to

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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

Core Strength

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Healing, Rejuvenation, Seasons, Trees / January 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Unshaded by leaves
all winter long the old oak
drinks deep of the sun

View to the East

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Beauty, Contentment, Trees, Winter / January 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading haiku
in the limb-veined dawn
I do not long for spring

In Dying the Dying

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Journey, Loss / January 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In dying the dying
must look to the dead

and hope the the years
of forgetting their name
will not be met by the same

In dying the dying must look to the dead

The living can only
wave clinging from shore
what you'll need is the dead
with the map and the oar

So call to them now
send food if you can
they forgave you before
pray they'll do it again

Grave Robber

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loss, Love / January 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I believe in a place better
why would I wish to lure
them back to a lesser

And if I believe that love
is not one of those things that you can't take with you
then they have mine with them

And hopefully though I feel the urge
remember what cannot give by taking

They Go to Prepare a Place

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Love / January 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may not
be fatal to be loved by me
but sometimes it seems to be

I will not here name the names
most you will find in other poems
filled with yearnings of other homes

Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who lit my life and left
true in joy and song
a lie in that muses do not die

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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…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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