January 2020 – Neil Meili

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Through the Needle’s Eye

News / tagged Capitalism, Child Exploitation, Injustice / January 31, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The laboring children can look out
And see the men at play
Sarah N. Cleghorn 1916

Sarah, you’ll be pleased to know
there are no such scenes today
The children laboring in the mills
are half a world away

Global Warning

Environment, Nature / tagged Climate Change, Fear / January 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We animals all
knowing where there’s smoke there’s fear
wind from everywhere

Image by Ylvers from Pixabay

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High Lonesome

Nature, Personal Growth, Relationships / January 29, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lonely ain’t lonely
where sky and tree are all me
and you yes you too

Image by Markus Distelrath from Pixabay

Edit Or

Poems about Poetry / January 28, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My body of work
is getting some wrinkles

Could go back
with an iron and some creams

Or file it with last night’s dreams

Photo by Massimiliano Morosinotto on Unsplash

The Man in the Desert

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / January 27, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The man in the desert remembers
and a tear begins to form

A tear so long unshed
ninety percent of the water is gone

Dragging its chain of crusted drops
it carves a white canyon
down his long and leathered face

A cracked tongue between cracked lips
reaches to taste it – Oh so sweet

Photo by Robert Murray on Unsplash

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Tears

Relationships / tagged Boys, Men, Vulnerability / January 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s not that
big boys and men don’t cry

The tear ducts
are just shaped different

And it all runs down inside

Photo of Ruby Falls near Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Designer Coffee

Nostalgia, Relationships, Travel / January 24, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s not the first cup that I want

It’s the warm-up to the top

Not with latte-frappe foam
but the sweetness that is “Hon”

Photo by Skyler Gerald on Unsplash

Thesaurus Blues

String Too Short To Save / tagged Humor / January 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Someone stole my thesaurus
Anyone who would steal a thesaurus is a _____ a ________ a ____________

Sailing on the Queen Mary

Nostalgia, Travel / January 22, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The opulence, the opulence, the Art Deco decor
The richness of wood on every wall and stair
The length and height and ballroom beam
The lavish light of crystal chandelier

Here rich and famous of the day
were brushed against in passageway
Now Long Beach harbor final-moored
with ghosts of glint and glory at the bar

Yet all is there, save ocean swell and mal de mer

These two I bring in memory from home
a canoe on Candle Lake in a ski-boat's wake
and the back seat of dad's old car

Image by skeeze from Pixabay

Rain Dance for Australia

Environment, Nature / tagged Wildfire / January 21, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Circle with me now
for the koala and the cow

for the roo and camel too
and frogs acroak in smoke

Dance with me now
that they may dance again

Image by sandid from Pixabay

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Wonderful poem Neil
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great poem ... love it
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Yes!!!!!!
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Very good!, I liked’d the Emily Dickinson one too, powerhouse babe all from the solitude of her room. Shen you…

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