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Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After my morning gratitudes
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more

Tears of Sugar

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Funeral, Gratitude, Grief, Joy / September 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tears of sugar
tears of salt

So beautiful or so sad
and sometimes half and half

Like stories at a wake
- Oh how she made us laugh

The Gift Horse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude / May 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not so simple

If you question every action
you will find forces pull in other directions

If you look in the mouth of the horse
not all teeth will be straight
and many may have been grinding
for some time

It is more likely
that happiness will be found
by looking deep in the mouth of the adage

It is Enough

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude / January 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is enough
that the baby smiles
even if it's only gas

It is enough
to know that God exists
though it take a lifetime
and a minute more

It is enough
that the dog loves you
at the end of a day filled
with cats

It is enough
that the rainbow
can arch your back
straight again

It is enough to watch a sunset

It is enough
that leaves fall like butterflies

It is enough
that joy exists, even when
others have it all

It is enough
that the other knee feels
fine

It is enough
that in dreams you can
still fly

Is is enough
that poetry is in the bible too

It is enough
that gifts come
in the size of gratitude

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In Our Pond

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Gratitude / June 13, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The frogs
have been singing for rain

It has rained
and the frogs are still singing

One has to listen closely
to note the shift from please to thanks

How Not to Be a Turkey on Thanksgiving Day

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Gratitude, Thanksgiving / November 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Practice Practice Practice

So sip each morn
and eve on plentitude

And on the day of gratitude
show up less loud and crude

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Thanksgiving Poem: How To

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Gratitude, Thanksgiving, Writing / October 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don’t write right away, but soon
Watch the leaves and the light fully
Connect – allow – relax – delight
Too quick is a tourist in a selfie
Taj Mahal untended over left shoulder
Wait too long and the phone will ring

Write a few hundred poems before – good and bad
so fear of the water doesn’t keep you on shore
And how about a title throwing two shadows
(as Mary Oliver encourages)
an easy one here with movement and the season

Do not say leaves look toward the sun, an object
but towards the rising of the sun, an event
and more evocative of motion

Note the angle of the sun
so low on the horizon that is shines upwards
into the twisting, twirling, falling leaves
as they lift at times in slightly gusting breeze

If pirouetting is what you see, bring the ballet in

And gratitude, of course, and on what day

Third in the series of five Thanksgiving poems from Leaflet: a poem progression. Written in Austin Texas, Thanksgiving 2014, re-celebrated, Canadian Thanksgiving 2020

A Fall Moment (Expanded)

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Gratitude, Thanksgiving / October 13, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The ancient elm, shaking herself awake
releases a shower of gold-leaf leaves
Turning each edge to the rising of sun
they dance in a small breeze ballet

Some cheekily exposing cheeks
some shyly turning away

some reaching back to momma tree
some rushing to grace the ground

some hanging in hesitant suspension

If it were not Thanksgiving day
I would be grateful anyway

Second in the series of five Thanksgiving poems from Leaflet: a poem progression. http://www.neilmeili.com/neils-books/leaflet-a-poem-progression/ Written in Austin Texas, Thanksgiving 2014, re-celebrated, Canadian Thanksgiving 2020

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A Fall Moment

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Gratitude, Thanksgiving / October 12, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The ancient cedar elm next door
in shaking herself awake
releases a shower of small gold leaves

Turning each edge to the rising of sun
they dance in a small breeze ballet

If it were not Thanksgiving day
I would be grateful anyway

First in the series of five Thanksgiving poems from Leaflet: a poem progression. http://www.neilmeili.com/neils-books/leaflet-a-poem-progression/ Written in Austin Texas, Thanksgiving 2014, re-celebrated, Canadian Thanksgiving 2020

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In Gratitude For Your Life

Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude, Teacher / November 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In memory of Dr. Marvin Kimbrough PhD
Ah Doctor Marvin, you were class in a glass
the glass is broken – class spilt everywhere
I want to believe that all is well and
all your ripples spreading forever
a part of God’s most perfect plan
and yet I also want to say
I stepped on a splinter again today

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