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Grave Robber

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loss, Love / January 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I believe in a place better
why would I wish to lure
them back to a lesser

And if I believe that love
is not one of those things that you can't take with you
then they have mine with them

And hopefully though I feel the urge
remember what cannot give by taking

They Go to Prepare a Place

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Love / January 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may not
be fatal to be loved by me
but sometimes it seems to be

I will not here name the names
most you will find in other poems
filled with yearnings of other homes

Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who lit my life and left
true in joy and song
a lie in that muses do not die

Oh to Neruda

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Chile, Love, Patriotism, sensuality / December 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh Pablo you rise up
from a land, long as a woman's back

And you have loved your land
as you would love a woman
and you have loved women as you loved
your land

Every rock and shoal of their coastlines
every mood of their tides

You have caressed them
with your mind and your heart
and your hands

And you have received the treasures
that must always rise up
from their endless depths
to meet such a touch

Eyes of Friends

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / November 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While out pursuing life's dim ends
we often meet the eyes of friends

It's great to feel that magnet's pull
the hearts becoming warm and full

There may be time to stop and stare
and many years of love and care

Or maybe silent and by chance
just a brief brief moment's glance

It doesn't really matter much
the contact's made we feel the touch

Though if we ask of hows and whys
and what's the magic of those eyes

They do what mirrors can't quite do
they let you see right through to you

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Of Bears and Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Fear, Love / October 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You could draw a hundred mile circle
around our Saskatchewan ranch
and not find a bear anywhere

And yet, there was always a bear

Chasing me
chasing me through my dreams
until I fell, always fell, into a well
and awoke still falling

They say, in falling dreams
you die if you hit the bottom before waking

That was when I was four
I don't dream that dream anymore

Yet when I find myself falling in love with tumbling down and down into love
that old bear is still there

And the fear to let go and hit bottom

A Friendly Face

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Healing, Love / September 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Image by Couleur from Pixabay

Moon In Your Eyes

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Love / September 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The moon in your eyes
was reflection that first night
I see it there still

Science is Easy Love is Hard

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Fascination, Learning, Love / August 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The clever bits of the brain
can send rockets to the moon
but don't know shit
about watching it together
as much in awe of the other as the orb

Beautiful

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Adoration, Aging, Love / August 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad in the hospital with family around
and a light in his fading eyes

Looking at Mom and saying
Isn't she beautiful

And we looked at her anew and she was

Beautiful as the bride in the old black and whites
forever in colour for him

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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…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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