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Arm’s Length

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Remembering / tagged Distance, Observation, Perspective / June 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I went back
to the old town again
I might
have to leave
again to write about it

Mossbank, Saskatchewan, circa 2025

The Brevity of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Perspective / April 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is spring here
and, until the brain
in its spoilsport way
broke in
It was spring everywhere

I’m Ready For My New Hip Now

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth / tagged Conflict, Gratitude, Healing, Perspective / February 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I have finally forgiven
My old hip for all those years of pain

My mother for her hesitation
to carry me in a time of war

My father for the crossings
between the baler and the shed
and between his will and mine

And have taken also
the first small steps toward gratitude
for how far all three have carried me

Small Town Growing Smaller and Larger

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Perspective / February 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Been looking at mine for quite some time
through telescope and microscope
everyone and everything not as seeemed

Could it be the changing me's that sees
Could it be the equipment that I'm using
Dad's leather-shedding slide-out spyglass
and a toy microscope left by a frugal Santa

Vortextual

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / February 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing on the prairie
long enough to know

That the middle of nowhere
is also
the center of everywhere

Why Children Are Christmas

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Imago Therapy, Perspective, Voice Dialogue / December 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gift
of every you
is a point of view

The gift
of every me
is willingness to see

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Turning Point

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Meditation, Perspective / December 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I said it's good to see you back
How's your search for all knowing going

She said, I had it down pat
if meditation is where it's at

with breathing below perception
and everything nearing perfection

Then one day on a Kiwi beach
deep in the oneness a loud voice said

"Y

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The Tao Jones Average

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Balance, Perspective, Philosophy, Self Awareness / November 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That squiggly line on every graph

Between
the doing and the being
Between
the grasping and the letting go

Between
the white dot in the black
and the black dot in the white

of us all

When the Bough Breaks

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Change, Destruction, Perspective / October 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The top 40 feet of the hammock tree fell
and left but enough for the anchors to hold

Lying there now there's nothing to see but sky

Time-Lapse Prairie

Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / June 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Clouds
chase shadows
across the hide of hills

Blues
of light and dark
mix in palate ponds

Two antelope
enger from the left and gone

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