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Waxwings

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Birds, Joy, Spring / August 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waxwings
drunk on berries and spring
are partying wild in our yard

Brother Icarus feeling such joy
might have too neared the sun
at the top of a loop like that

Picking Raspberries in a Short-Sleeved Shirt

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Delight, Joy, Pain, Searching, Thorns / August 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

These are not roses
who will tear your heart out
with their beauty and its price

Though reaching through
the deepest bush
for the richest reds
will tickle-scratch you enough
to linger past taste buds fleeting joy

Inner Critic on Holiday

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Discovery, Joy / July 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You will get lost in Paris
it is not your fault, it was planned that way

You may find it unforgivably gauche
not to know the left bank from the right

Let it go

It is not necessary to criticize oneself here
they have waiters for that purpose

And looking out, not in
you may stumble Americanly
upon Marie's little side street shop
with bread as new as the cheese is old
and a three dollar wine to bridge them

or catch a brief glimpse of that seriously happy young man
pedaling down the very center of the Champs d'Elyse
one foot and a base fiddle resting on his skateboard

To the Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Travel / tagged Adventure, Connection, Gratitude, Joy / June 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to the Zoo with you
I went to the Zoo with you

There were lions and tigers and elephants
and cotton candy too

but I went to the Zoo with you
with you, with you, with you

Remembering When

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Joy, Presence / May 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Remembering when
anything was everything
full presence childhood

Author, about 3 years-old, on a trike on the ranch

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Elemental Childhood

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Creation, Joy, Rain / May 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Jumping in puddles
water and mud in all directions

Joy enough in the drying clay
for God to make a world

Runoff

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Joy, Melting, Seasons, Spring, Water / April 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The children of spring
are racing down the mountains
eating dessert first

Rinpoche at Esalen

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Esalen, God, Joy, Spirituality / February 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Small round happy
Tibetan spirit bubbling
teaching from his words and being
The search for God is everything
but it is not serious

Past Translating Present

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dictators, Joy, MAGA, Nazi, Perspective, Power, Regret, Trump / January 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In her youth she'd been a Hitler Youth
filled with purpose and power
and the joy of pre-teen camaraderie

All now dimmed and damned wheen seen
through smoke from Auschwitz ovens
though somewhere in her still it shines
brightest diamond of her life

This was the story, or was it two
she sought my help to put to poem

That was thirty years ago
I might do a better job today
informed by watching rallies
filled with power hope and joy
and how it will look in their regret

Singing in Showers and Cars

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Joy, Music / December 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Kenny had a booming voice
and could carry a tune
and anyone who couldn't

Singing in the shower
you only have yourself and water
and the echoes of the walls

The cubic space in an old pickup cab
is about the same as a shower stall

Sometimes we sang
with the windows open
and gravel heavy on the bass
Sometimes it was raining
as we synced along
singing every Johnny Horton song

in the best studio in the world
in the best of all worlds

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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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