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Valentines

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Appreciation, Communication, Love, Writing / February 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every Saint Valentine's Day
one should write a poem
to their beloved

Not just to remind them
how lovely they are
And your burning desire
to show it

But also how lucky you are
to know that you know it

Echo

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Complaining / February 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Kvetching in a canyon
reverbles off the rocks

If the canyon's a no-ender
it will not return to sender

Just echo and echo away
souring someone else's Sabbath

AI is Made of Us

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Communication, Future, Teaching, Technology / January 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The messages
we give our children
shape the world to come

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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Cowversations

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Communication, Humor / November 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One of the reasons I got out of ranching
was the long drought of good conversation

Cowhands
true to their fame are men of few words

Horses ain't bad
they will at least point their ears and pretend

But cows, it was the cows that did it
how they'd saucer eye like listening
while you chewed them out in detail
about all the dumb things that they'd done

Turn away to ruminate upon the lesson
and two days later kick you for no reason

Conversations with Horses

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Animals, Communication / November 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I never had a horse that talked to me
like Mister Ed on sixties TV

If I had I might have learned a lot

I did talk to them of course
but mostly by knee and rein and spur
and sometimes thank you for a job well done

As for messages for me, I can only imagine
- or count the number of times bucked off

A Little to the Right

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Communication, Misunderstanding, Understanding / November 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How does the heron
learn about refraction
and that the fish is not
where the fish appears to be

It is a matter of survival I suppose

Like me learning the difference
and the angle of intent
between what you said
and what you meant

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"

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

A Pickerel is Worth a Thousand Words

Audio Recordings / tagged Communication, Exageration, Fishing, Story / August 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes
you catch a fish so fine
it becomes the story teller

If you hold out your hands
to say "This big" it gets away

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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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