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An Invitation

Uncategorized / September 21, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Neil wanders the world in awe – Mirrors and metaphor everywhere. You can join him on this journey with a Poem in your Inbox every day.  CLICK HERE to start today

Climbout Sunsets

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / tagged Aging, Memory, Wonder / July 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
John Gillespie Magee
slipped the surly bonds of earth
reached out and touched the face of God

Planes are bigger and faster now
I in my Aero Commander 
commander of the air

Climbing at dusk have set the sun
on the lip of the world
and held it there

Have rode the Concorde 
faster than the speed of sound
and faster than the earth goes round
that can lift it up where it when down

And there are times I'd best the lark
to try to hold or yet turn back
baby's smiles and love's first spark

I think Magee, the reverence would see
as we all fight the dying of the light
and try to touch the Sistine finger
a little longer before night
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Reverence

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Faith, Respect, Teaching / July 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The prairie wind blows
from where the sun goes

stays up all night
to preach the grass
how to bow to its return
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The Car of Joy

Audio Recordings / tagged Acceptance, Death, Grief, Healing / July 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The car of joy
runs on wheels 
of completed grief
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Light Shining on Copper

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Absence, Death, Friendship, Grief, Longing, Love / July 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I can mostly buy
the whole spiritual thing
that she is neither dead nor gone

or at a perfect time
and to a perfect place

But there is
this hole in a hug
where she used to fit
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Bad Moon Rising

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Friendship, Grief, Loss, Sadness / July 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Coyote howls
past the moon

Anger, sorrow
Copper, where?

Written after the death of dear friend Copper Love, with thanks to her family for allowing us to share one of Copper’s paintings.  To see more of Copper’s art click here

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Copper’s Big Bend

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Art & Artists, Rivers / July 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Copper takes her easel
out of the back of a red Miata
sets it up and waits for the light

She runs her brush
back and forth across her palm
and strikes when the moment's right

Her take from the land no more theft
than a drink from the Rio Grande
who loves to have your lips upon it

Artist Copper Love, from Kerrville, one of the areas affected by the devastating July 4th floods.

Photo of Copper Love’s painting “Chimneys.” For more information about Copper’s art, click here

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A Raft in the Flood

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Flooding, Grief, Loss / July 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything - C.S. Lewis

The hope of tomorrow and joy of today swept away

We want to turn it back - Can't 
Look for words in muddy bibles - Too wet to read

Can poets make it better - Not a chance
Unless reading Lewis you might know you're not alone

Thinking of all those affected by the tragic floods along the Guadalupe River in Texas on July 4th

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Practical Joker Way Back Then

Audio Recordings / July 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Lying face-up near the surface
and holding breath just long enough
to see the look on Narcissus' face

Image by will zhang from Pixabay

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Global Warning

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, News / tagged Climate Change, Fire, Flood, Natural Disasters / July 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
We animals all
knowing where there's smoke there's fear
wind from everywhere
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Why Dictators Love Statues

Audio Recordings / tagged Authoritarians, Ego, Oligarchy, Worship / July 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Worth all the pigeons
to stand in the square though dead
still throw a shadow

Toppling may occur

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    You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!

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