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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

The Wink

Audio Recordings / tagged Confidence, Encounters, Humor, Protocol, Washington / February 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Dorsey was at school in DC
her and some pals were set up
for a White House private tour

Dorsey in the lead
on the path to the door
looking fine in a wide spring hat
with the President coming the other way

Being from the South she knew
that it was for the man to step aside

One of the suits gently suggested
that it didn't work that way here

Lyndon got the path
and she got a big wink when they passed

The Buddha Sat

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Enlightenment, Freedom, Humor / February 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Buddha
sat under the Bodhi Tree
ever so ever so long
trying to come up with the perfect joke

A joke so subtle yet simple as well
that whoever hot it would be set free

Only to find
when he succeeded
that it had been on him

and got up and walked away

Buddha With A Toque

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Peace, Serenity, Silence, Snow, Winter / February 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Serenity Descends

Winter Comforts

Audio Recordings / tagged Electrical Grid, Storms, Winter / January 31, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When lost in the snowy Alps
Saint Bernards bring you brandy

When sleeping alone
a hot water bottle is your friend

And Austinites remembering
five years after Snow-mageddon
thing with more power than the grid

have generators installed or lusted for
and go to the store before the storm

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

Talking to Snow

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Winter / January 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rain can spread rumors
ice will always sass you back
snow keeps your secrets

The Innocence of Snow

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nature, News, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / January 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter
was winter
and all the world

When the only light was lamp
and the only power God
and the innocence of snow
lay soft on lad and land

When floating breath of kin and kine
was pure and white as well
and mankind too as far as we could tell

Antennae daily now
break down the door with news of war

Winter on the ranch Kin = Family & Kine = Cattle

Snow Blind

Audio Recordings, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Winter / January 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Snow of the backs of cattle

snow on the shovel lifting
snow on the sled hill squifting

snow on the ice road surfing
snow on the shed roof aching

snow in the memories binding
snow in the diamonds blinding

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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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