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Wake Turbulence

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Winds of Change / January 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Deep in the night the great horned owl
strokes silence with silence

If you land a small plane behind a 747
(Don’t land a small plane behind a 747)
If you land a small plane behind a 747
the invisible vortex from its wingtips
can toss you back into the air
or slap you hard into
the ground

Behind the great owl
the softness of its passing hangs in the air

The Bobcat

Audio Recordings, Nature, Remembering / January 10, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Close by the Boy Scout camp
I came upon a bobcat in a tree

I looked at the bobcat
and the bobcat looked at me

She was poise and beauty
and one with where she sat

I was knob knees shaking
knob knees shaking and a funny hat

Boy scout camp, St. Victor Saskatchewan. About 50 miles (80km) north of the Montana border

Image by milesz from Pixabay

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The Badger

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / January 9, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Observe the Badger
creature of the earth

See how she moves with the grace and ferocity of tectonic plates

Observe the badger
but do not try to pet
her soft earth softness
Do not let your hand
get caught
between the plates

Speaking of Rats

Audio Recordings / tagged Politics / January 8, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are no rats
in the province of Alberta
(You could look it up)

The borders I hear
are patrolled by patrols

Not sure how that works
poison traps and clubs perhaps

Eager boys with 22’s

Or school pipe bands facing
outward playing Hamelin songs

The lunar Year of the Rat runs from January 25th 2020 through February 11th 2021.

Equanimity

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Perspective, Politics / January 7, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mona Lisa smiled
through the French Revolution
she'll be fine today

Mona Lisa

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists / January 6, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I’m so thankful you were there
like a Mona Lisa fair

To show me things I’d never see
and to model for my poetry

Which is not to compare
the artist or the style

But only to confirm again
the value of a smile

Women

Audio Recordings, Relationships / January 5, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are women and women
and she was one of them

With enough encouragement
one thinks they can tell one from the other
Only to find he is wrong both ways

River Rocks

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / January 4, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rocks alone
corners harsh as habit

Rocks in relationship
time and torrent tumbled

Soft and smooth to the touch
as river bed as any bed so blessed

Image by RitaE from Pixabay

Covid Time

Audio Recordings / tagged Covid19 / January 3, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Time spent fishing
is not subtracted from life

and idling
does not add miles to a car

How then could covid count

Image by David Cardinez from Pixabay

Dali Had A Clock For That

Audio Recordings / tagged Covid19 / January 2, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There’s
this thing about time in Covid time

Days are longer than they are long
and nights shorter than they are short
and sometimes quite the opposite

I nap when it is not nap time
and sup when it’s not supper

Days do not pass in the present
though insist in adding up as lost past

They say all this will pass, how will we know

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