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Eulogy

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Death, Heaven, Love / February 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My mother passes
from the womb of this life
to the new life of the next

It has been a difficult journey

My father is waiting for her
with two saddled horses

She is happy to see him
while still nervously scanning
for Jesus
who she thought would be there
to greet her

My father laughs

Plenty of time for that
in a place with no time

Let me help you up
onto this gentle roan
there’s a sunset I’d like you to see

Beautiful

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aging, Love, Marriage / February 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad in the hospital with family around
and a light in his fading eyes

Looking at Mom and saying
Isn’t she beautiful

And we looked at her anew and she was

Beautiful as the bride in the old black and whites
forever in color for him

Man Cave

Audio Recordings / tagged Football, Games, Sports / February 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Since the sun
can be blinding at times
and women intense as well

Man must turn as Plato says
and take a little time to watch
shadows and sports upon the wall

In honor of Super Bowl LVI; is this really the year of the tiger?

Olympic Games

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Admiration, Games / February 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In ancient Greece
the athlete was admired
statues raised in his honor

Olympic games every four years
the basis for the whole Greek calendar

Modern Olympics forget the Greek Ideal
of sound mind in sound body

Forget the many statues of the wise
Forget that Olympic games contained
display and competition
in poetry, in music, and in drama

In the modern Olympics every four years
a new sport is voted in
I vote to add the balance back

Twenty Nine

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Games, Hobbies, Playing Cards / February 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad never got a perfect hand in cribbage
though he played more games than mother or me
or most of his friends who got one

He never got struck by lightening either
though the odds are twenty times better
and it may have kept him here
many years after the stroke; trying, trying, trying

The Joy of the Jigsaw

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Hobbies, Puzzles / February 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Why I Do Crosswords Not Sudoku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Hobbies, Learning, Puzzles / February 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

At times in the Times
a word pops up I don't know
numbers don't do that

The Other Well

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / February 4, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No need to ask
the depth of their well

What they say
is not how you'll

The Well

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / February 3, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is no need to tell
the depth of your well

Just let each drink
according to their thirst

Groundhog Day

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / February 2, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While I feared my shadow
it was never spring

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