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An Invitation

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

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Visitation

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Friendship, Grace, Grief, Memorial, serendipity / June 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Between an angel and a dragonfly
there is no difference by scale

One
or the other circled
all the planting of the tree
that will be fed by Sharon's ashes.

Memorial sharing for Sharon Stuart; fellow poet, fellow traveler, held last Sunday in San Marcos Texas.

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Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Grief / June 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
another one for Sharon
Another poem today
and you not there to share

Now answer to my whisper
and no answer to my shout

The box canyon's had the end blown out
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Dearly Not Departed

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Remembering / June 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
for Sharon

I have a picture
not taken by a camera

Of you 
in a white peasant blouse
standing in a field of bluebonnets

Any time I take it out will be spring
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Circling the Square

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Community / June 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The old towns in South Texas 
have a town square that all life circles around

One sees it also in Mexico and Spain
but that was where I saw them first
and an instant home ness rose

In the small towns of Saskatchewan
where I was born and raised
there was only a Main Street
and that was only always a road out of town

Town square San Marcos Texas, thirty miles south of Austin
Photo credit: Sharon Stuart

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Prairie Bumper Sticker

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia / tagged Saskatchewan / June 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Train Day

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Saskatchewan, Small Town / June 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Once a week, once a week
they came from all around
and swelled and swelled
the size of our young town

And the chugging grew, and the chugging grew
and the chugging grew, and the whistle blew
and all was new, and the children knew

But now the lines are down, all down
old folks and old dogs in the town
not a child nor a pup, nor a pup
and not one elevator up
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Wisdom

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / May 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I met a man I had not met
for fifty years or maybe more

Neither I nor the man I met
were the man we’d met before

I had never met the wise man
He had never met the poet

For Archbishop James Weisgerber; aka Father Jim during years at Athol Murray’s Notre Dame College

Photo: Holy Rosary Cathedral – Regina, Saskatchewan

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Old Train Math

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Remembering, Travel / tagged memories, Saskatchewan / May 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If a train leaves Moose Jaw 
heading west at the speed of first memory

Engine, cars, and caboose
zebra-ing by behind a snowfence
smoke billowing back over its shoulder

And another leaves, traveling east
from my writing of it now

When will they meet 
at the small town of Courval 
and your reading of this page
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Spring in Moose Jaw

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Saskatchewan / May 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In the city
retired farmers still watch
the weather

In greening front yards
wooden ducks nailed to white posts

Wings spinning backwards
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First Spring

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Covid19 / May 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
First spring in a while
without covid shot or bandit mask

FIrst spring without the spring tied back

First spring in a while with an open smile
First spring where one can race to embrace

First spring in a while where poetry
can be invitation to touch not replacement for
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