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A Poem Before Holland

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands / September 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I travel to Holland
on wings of a childhood story
silver skates and a finger in a dike

To lands wrestled from an angry sea
a sea that dearly wants them back
Unceasing vigilance to keep the prize
a dark line drawn across their eyes

I see windmills chop the salt wet air
art and flowers leaping up in faith
behind thin walls

Back to the little boy and the dike again
legal drugs and red lights in the rain
These are a fair and sturdy people
I like them now, and I like how

In a land where children must
so often act as men
they do not pass acts that treat
their men as children

In Preparation For Israel

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In preparation for Isael
I have the poems of Yehuda Amichai

If I read them I may need fewer maps
If I read them well I may need no maps
If I read them very well I may not need to go

Traveling Under Cautions Against

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Crowded places where people
with grievances real or scriptured
make their point with bombs and such

Draw circles of safety if you must
and trust the angels that you trust

Death may not be the foe we've feared
but injury hurts, and the deaths of others

When Travel Became Gravel

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / September 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When the lines got longer

When the seats got smaller
and my knees locked up
on a ninety minute flight

When Westjet couldn't find
the hat I left right on the seat

When Boeing started cutting
to make more money on poorer
planes and have computers fly them

When they locked the cockpit door
so I couldn't chat with fellow pilots
like I did on the Concorde and more

Travel

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Reluctance / September 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Packing
again in a place I love
for a place that I might like

Taurus roots
crab-grass to the ground

Each tearing tendril cursing
and wanting if it could
to kick
whoever made this bucket list

Bucket List Half Full

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Ain't been everywhere
but ain't been nowhere neither

Rather read the list
that keeps me warm at night
than the one that keeps me awake

Respect

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, First Nations, Native Americans, Wisdom / September 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Pleats in clothes
go in and out of fashion

Pleats in faces
in some cultures never do

Illustration of Chief Dan George’s mother by Helmut Hirnschall from The Best of Chief Dan George

Lest We Regret

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Art & Artists, God / September 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whistler and Durer
did paintings of their mothers
something I wouldn't dare to do

If photos can capture souls
some risk paintings can as well

And I wouldn't want to wrestle with the dude how had dibs on hers

Benevolence

Audio Recordings / tagged God, Mystery / September 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The man in the moon is a mask
no-one knows if behind is a he or a she
the answer may make all the difference

Secret of Life

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Faith / September 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The secret of life
is that God can keep one well
live the mystery

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Indeed!
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Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
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Lovely!
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