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Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Birds / August 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
has to look up from her art
geese may be flying

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

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A Pointillist Dream

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Seurat kind of day
Sidney, BC or Paris
a pointillist dream

Punctuation

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Certainty, Communication, Questions / August 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Benny Anderson
the great Danish poet writes
of bending question marks
into exclamation points

But should there be
a squiggly mark halfway between
to denote some lingering doubt
before re-posting it out

Word Divisions

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication / August 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can know your native language
and still feel all alone
as pilots talk to pilots
in a code that’s all their own

Yet not even one to one
can they share that love of air
or touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

Sailors talk to sailors
of wind and sail and rope
of nights upon the ocean
of courage and of hope

Yet the words just can’t convey
their love of sea and air
nor touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

And though cowboys talk to cowboys
in a special kind of drawl
there’s still a space between them
the words can’t tell at all

Not those nights of cold and stars
with coyotes on the air
nor the call of open spaces
with the fear and beauty there

Watch as lovers talk to lovers
in ways only two can share
as they build between them
a framework light and fair

While a web that’s spun of maybes
hangs so fragile in the air
that one false word can shatter
into pain, the beauty there

And yet

There are still some crazy poets
out riding hatless in the sun
still trying to do the very thing
we all know can’t be done

Still Quixoting for a language
that can speak to everyone

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Deer Valley Airport

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nostalgia / tagged Airplanes, Aviation, Friendship, Pilots / August 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The man who flies an airplane... must believe in the unseen - Richard Bach

In the northern environs of Phoenix
the air is dry enough for old airplanes
and The Red Baron bar wet enough for dry pilots

Along the double row of yellow hangers
A Mark X1V Spitfire, a 1930’s Great Lakes
a Ryan pt 22 Eisenhower supposedly soloed in
and Jim Higgins’ WW1 reproduction SE-5a biplane

Whether you are hangering a Cessna or a T-33
you are part of a private club with no paperwork or fees
and get to sip champagne with Blue Angels after the show

In honor of National Aviation Day and all the author’s friends in the sky

The Little Train that Used to Could

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Aging, Death, Friendship / August 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Behold with what companions I rode the rails

Mile-long link of boxcars with names along the side
coopered and filled with love and contradictions
and tanker cars of jet fuel we thought would last forever

One by one they shunted off to that no-exit siding
and with every car that’s gone and gone
Jesus in the caboose getting closer to the engine

Rolling On

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Aging, Death, Movement / August 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buggy wheels
and training wheels
cars, trucks and bikes

Walkers
and wheelchairs
powered and push
until the wheels come off

If the Rose Had Known

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Death, Flowers, Generosity / August 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If the rose had known
how few were its numbered hours
would it still share joy

A Friend Came and Went

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Solitude / August 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend came and went
loneliness now lonelier
will a haiku help

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Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026
Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
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Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…
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profound
Eda Lishman on For the PoetryJanuary 7, 2026
Neil: what a daily gentlre reminder ...this broight me many memories of walking out into the open prairie searching for…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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