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Impossible Things

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Alice in Wonderland, Belief, Faith, Fantasy / October 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The queen had believed, when young
as many as six before breakfast

The trick dear Alice
though you weren't told
is doing it when you're old

There's one now...

A Kinder Gentler God

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aboriginal, Faith, First Nations, Native Americans / September 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As we look around the world today we see
with God as our father in trouble all are we

Fathers as you know, often have a tendency
towards discipline, judgement and wrath
while grandparents almost always
take a wiser, gentler path

There may be much to learn
as we choose, or create our deity
from the Blackfoot, Sioux and Cree
who still gather at Grandfather's knee

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada which honours the survivors of residential schools and their families, as well as the children who never returned home.

Secret of Life

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Faith / September 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The secret of life
is that God can keep one well
live the mystery

What is Heaven Like

Audio Recordings / tagged Afterlife, Belief, Faith, Religion, Suicide Bombing / August 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Is it a place of judgement or of none
Is it a toll gate or an open door
Some seem to know but don't agree
Is it a place where virgins go
for the pleasure of pleasuring forever
beards who blew up themselves and others
Some seem to know but don't agree

Is it a place of judgement of or none
or could it be that there's more than one
and we get to go where we feel most at home
Some seem to know but they don't agree

Reverence

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Faith, Respect, Teaching / July 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The prairie wind blows
from where the sun goes

stays up all night
to preach the grass
how to bow to its return

Statues

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Christianity, Faith, Symbols / April 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is a St. Francis in our garden
with a squirrel at his marble feet
and a small bird on his shoulder

Under the big oak out front
a stone Buddha holds firm
his mudra calling for discourse
equal balance of give and receive

As a Christian in a Christian land
it would be nice to have a Jesus too

If only we could find one of him
holding a fish and a loaf of bread
in each outstretched unpierced hand

The First Supper

Audio Recordings / tagged Choice, Christ, Christianity, Divinity, Easter, Faith, Jesus, Life, Sacrifice / April 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As above so below
In a life between lives

I sit at a table of light
Set like Da Vinci's Last Supper

A table of light lined with people of light

The one in the center the brightest of light
Takes a knife all of light and cuts and arm all of light

The slice of his flesh drips red with his blood
(the only color in the picture of light)

To each at this table he offers

The gift of his flesh to the people of light
(the only color in this picture of light)

One by one they have a choice
not a last supper, but a first

By accepting the gift of hs flesh
(the only color in the picture of light)

They come to this earth
their own gifts to give

Fear and Faith

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Belief, Danger, Faith, Risk / April 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ash Wednesday

Audio Recordings / tagged Catholic, Cross, Faith, Lent, Religion, Rites, ritual, Tradition / March 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Doing the Work

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Depression, Faith, Growth, Struggle, Therapy / February 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dark nights
of the soul may come again

This time I will have more candles

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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