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A Gift in Winter

Audio Recordings, Nature / February 14, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Sometimes in the long dark of a winter night the Swarovski fairy will pop by and wand each tree to crystal
Run into the streets and woods
and thank her in the slant-light dawn
before the burning envy of the sun cancels out the spell
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Winter on Mt Olympus

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Inspiration, mythology / February 13, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Sisyphus in Winter

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / February 12, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It was easier with a stone this snowball keeps growing
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Cold

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / February 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Forty below in Celsius 
is forty below in Fahrenheit

Suffering is often involved

In Canada they make jokes
In Russia they make poems

At these temperatures 
the blood from a Russian poet 
freezes on the way to the ground

They break off the icicle 
and Hara-kiri it into the next stanza
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Masks of Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Covid19 / February 9, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You are not
alone in your caring

By covering your face
I can see who you are
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Covid Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Covid, Valentine / February 8, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Covid makes
the heart grow fonder
If you take a mo to ponder

Far apart or locked tight in
what you might lose gives will to win

Don’t die, don’t kill. Best Valentine gift this year

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The Hint

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Faith, Magic, Spirit, Wonder / February 7, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You don’t have
to say it out loud

But haven’t you, at least once
been touched by the unexplained

and wondered
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Rinpoche at Esalen II

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Buddhism, Meditation / February 6, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Rinpoche at Esalen

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Travel / tagged Buddhism / February 5, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Esalen

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Travel / February 4, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A poem arising from the author’s experience at Esalen in the ’80s

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