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Prairie Song

Audio Recordings / tagged Adversity, Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, Hope, Inspiration, Saskatchewan, School, Tenacity / May 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A link to the 1980 film The Hounds of Notre Dame – a glimpse of life at Notre Dame College in the 1940s and the extraordinary man who created it. Author also a former student.

Hope

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Adversity, Hope, Optimism, Struggle, Tenacity / April 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

World hard and harder
walls and paths build
stone by stone
in the cracks - flowers

Fear piled on pain
stone paths merge
with rock wall rise
in the cracks - flowers

Hard days and hard nights
path of pain joins wall of fear
in the cracks - flowers

Reincarnation by Cloud

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Hope, Rebirth / April 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does the rain falling on us now
remember the palmed oasis
the emerald lake of the Rockies
the laughing over small stones

Hand in hand we stand
faces upward, wet with hope

Magdalene

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Christ, Hope, Love, Rebirth, resurrection / April 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mary Magdalene lay down
with the sons of man
And knew them as sons of God
There was no sin in Magdalene
for she saw no sin in them
Dearest of all to the carpenter's son
was the one who could see him most clear
For there was no sin in Magdalene
and she saw no sin in him — It is storied that Mary Magdalene was the first person Jesus appeared to after his resurrection.

Ukrainian Easter

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Beauty, Destruction, Hope, Pysanky, Rebirth, Ukraine, War / April 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Easter Eggs of Ukraine
are beautiful beyond imagining
and were not meant to be scrambled

Wishing peace and hope to those celebrating Easter today and Orthodox Easter next Sunday

Dreams of Safety

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Fear, Hope, Identity, War / April 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Over the wall
fires are burning
and black clouds rolling

Out of black cloud rolling
a rainbow beaming

Out of rainbow beaming
raindrops falling

Each drop to its colour
clinging

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Man Upright

Audio Recordings, News, Personal Growth / tagged Death, evolution, Hope, Kindness, War / March 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Carpet bombings in Ukraine
Concentration camps in China
Mass shooting du jour in the USA

Who would blame you for believing
that man is a natural miserable critter
and any decency the rare exception

If you want to spit out that cactus turd
try starting out each day with a search
for someone doing something kind
even if it has to be you

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Equanimity

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Hope / March 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mona Lisa smiled
through the French revolution
she'll be fine today

Reading Haiku to the Injured Oaks

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Hope, Ice Storm, Spring / March 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading haiku
to the injured oaks

Hoping to disrupt
dreams of ice and broken limbs
and the sound of saws

Bringing newness news
in somewhere all-connected
cherry blossoms soon

Sparrows Fall and Winter

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Depression, Hope, Nurturing, Sadness / January 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On days dark and gray
when feeling little like God
one can feed sparrows

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