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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

Holding Up The Line

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Coffee, Harvest / September 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Barista, barista, if only you knew what I'd like to order from you Barista, barista please, if you please cold coffee in a Mason jar like Momma sent to the fields at harvest and at haying time That much sugar and that much cream and no one wiped the lip when they passed it round Barista, barista there's nothing I see on that long fancy menu for me I guess I just came in to smell the coffee
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Putting Up Preserves

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Canning, Garden, Harvest, Preserving, Survival, Vegetables / September 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
On the prairies thegarden is one word While Dad and us boys are filling the bins Mom and the girls are mustarding beans and pickling beets filling Mason jars with a winter of good eats then sealing them tight with red rubber rings We are singing, it remembers like a song A Canning time - Canning time - sing along

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The Girl From Away

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Love, Teenager / September 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I was sixteen, it was summer Hauling wheat to town in the 3-ton Chevy A quart of store-bought buttermilk on the seat for the trip back to the ranch There was a girl, my age and beautiful visiting in the last house on the left Sometimes she would be on the street or in the yard The truck was new and powerful I was farm boy healthy, strong We were hitting on all cylinders It was warm, the window was open I was in love, the buttermilk was cold
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Texas in the Title

Audio Recordings / tagged Music, Texas / September 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If you want your song to be a hit just put Texas in the title Whether it's in your rear view mirror or where all George Strait’s exes live Austin Lounge Lizards trashing Dallas or waltzing across it like Ernest Tubb And the stars at night are big and bright CLAP/CLAP/CLAP/CLAP/ /CLAP/CLAP/CLAP Deep in the heart of Texas Three thousand titles and more with the songs and movies and books So you know just what to do to have the eyes of Texas on you too And what was them is gonna be us so pull over Willie we’re gettin on the bus
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Time in Texas

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You race it in Dallas drown it in Houston and dance with it in Austin Any farther south and you have to wrap it around a siesta A burrito with salsa at both ends
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Poetry Texas

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
There's a town in Texas called Poetry Look for the water tower about twenty miles S.E. of Dallas Make up, if you like, what's in the water
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Bemused

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Gratitude / September 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It is never wise to be at all ungrateful to your muse Though times she picks to bring her gifts are ones few of us would choose She does live on a mountain in Greece while I'm scribbling in Texas at two AM She's bright and alert and off to work because it's nine in the morning to her
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Mosaics

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Connections, Design, Greece / September 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
On Delos a floor caught our eye with an Escher-like mosaic pattern Optical illusions of rectangles in rows still bright after thirty centuries Next day in a New York airport we take our seats in the lounge fabric covering the chairs in exact same pattern

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Owls to Athens

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Greece / September 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
One does not take coal to Newcastle or owls to Athens But it is good to go with an appreciation of coal and owls It is also permitted to leave Newcastle with a bit of coal in one's pocket Or Athens with a small bronze of an owl And memories of a questioning call floating across the Agora to the small cliff restaurant Where we rest on the long climb down from all the heights of the Acropolis
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In Greece

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Travel / tagged Atlas, Echo, Illiad, mythology, Narcissus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Sisyphus, Tantalus / September 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In Greece I remember and meet myself everywhere I am Socrates questioning I am the athlete striving, the architect planning the builder building, the potter shaping the sculptor seeking, the warrior dying and the poet pointing In Greece I am all men and all gods as well and I remember how many times, in this life alone I have pushed the rock endlessly uphill carried the world on my shoulders and had my liver eaten by the savage bird How many times I have fallen in love with my own reflection reached out for the sweet grapes and sweet water to find them moving always beyond my grasp been forced to echo only what others have said tied myself to the mast to resist the siren's call Fought in a thousand wars full out on the open field or sea or hidden in the belly of a wooden horse
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