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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

Buddha with a Toque

Audio Recordings, Nature, String Too Short To Save / tagged Winter / February 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Serenity Descends

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Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
After my morning gratitudes 
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more
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Recurring Dream

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / February 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Trapped in a theatre
watching Groundhog Day

This year marks the 30th anniversary of this Bill Murray Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncQtURdcE4

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Lantana Manna

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Beauty, Flowers, Growth, Trees / February 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Trees and Poets 
grow from the inside out 

The latest lines and rings
greenest and most beautiful

Lantana – favorite flower of beloved Austin poet Patricia Fiske (1927 – 2020)

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Tree Rings

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Relationships / tagged Aging, Education, Growth, Mentors / January 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
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Touring the Camps

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Education, Holocaust / January 30, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All German schoolchildren visit the camps; this is Auschwitz II For more information about Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day visit https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/yom-hashoah

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Holocaust Happens

Audio Recordings, News, Remembering / tagged Death, Education, Holocaust, War / January 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Yesterday was holocaust reminder day
Remembrance day for those who remember
Reminder day for those who forgot
Shofar calling to those who’ve never heard
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Timmy’s Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Charity, Community, Help, Rescue / January 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Timmy’s down the well
or in the words of Lassie
Woof woof woof arf arf woof
Timmy’s down the well

Lay down your tools
set aside your quarrels
everyone come running
Timmy’s down the well

There’s nothing like
a big-bellied Biafran baby
to open hearts and wallets

Nothing like a crooked grin
to get us on the Smile Train

It’s happening again in Haiti
the smallest with the least
are calling to our largest best

Sometimes it takes a child
to raise a village

Smile Train The world’s largest cleft-focused organization has a sustainable and local model of supporting surgery and other forms of essential care. 

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Courage Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Tenacity / January 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Arthur Fisher for example
who sold the ranch to Dad
and gave me my first name
and a lake-stone ring he’d made

All alone in 
the twenties dug a well by the house
lowering himself into a dark dirt shaft
that could cave him dead at any second

100 feet down, an inch at a time
and how did he get the heavy bucket up

How did he feel when he hit the capstone
picked up the pickaxe and the shovel 
moved a hundred feet and started again
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Robbie Burns’ Birthday

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Whiskey, Whisky / January 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Honoring the sage
Scotch gets better age by age
drink to sacred page

Celebrating “The Bard of Scotland” Robert Burns

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