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The Needy Introvert

Audio Recordings, Relationships / February 11, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Alone but not alone
always wanting to hide
from everyone with someone

Whenever trapped in a people corral
scanning for one to cut out of the herd

Young Dragon

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Experience, Learning / February 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young dragon walks
in direction of his breath
surprised by burning feet

Year of the Dragon

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Astrology, Children, Chinese Zodiac, Luck, Lunar New Year, Superstition / February 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

More births are recorded in Chinese communities in the Year of the Dragon than any other year – parents believe it is the most auspicious sign to be born under
https://goodyfeed.com/2024-dragon-year-babies-parents/

Tickles

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Self Awareness / February 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the same way
that you can't tickle yourself

telling jokes in the mirror
will rarely if ever make you laugh

Unless you notice what a fool is doing it

A Mobius Trip

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / February 7, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Always an emigrant, never an immigrant
one foot in each country for thirty years
more running from than running to
more neither nor than either or

Always abandoning in some way
family, friends and dependable plans
and any constancy demands

Half desperate, always in search
for new ones who will give enough
and not demand too much

I keep my Canadian in Canada
and am careful when I pack
I stow my twang at the border
and pick it up on the way back

Flying from Calgary to Toronto, Eda asks
"How come you've started to talk in a drawl?"

Just as the captain comes on the blower to say
"In order to avoid a big storm on our left
we are now flying over North Dakota"

The I and I Go Walking

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Connection, Distraction / February 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes a bird and a bubble of what
Its size and length
dependent on color or pattern of flight

Until my companion nudges me
back to our conversation

You are the U in Houston to Me

Audio Recordings, Environment, Relationships, Travel / tagged Pollution, Smog, Texas / February 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How could I ever leave you love
if you didn’t live in Houston

If it wasn’t for the humid swamp
and the trash along the bayou
how could I say good-bye to you

You know I love you dearly
and it ain’t you that makes me run
but Houston traffic’s far from fun
and every Bubba’s got a gun

Yet even with all of that
and the country’s worst damn air
you know that I’ll keep coming back
as long as you are there

And I’ll keep leaving Houston too
after a muggy smoggy day or two

One of these days I hope you know
I’ll take you with me when I go

Freeways – Houston

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Commute, Congestion, Greed, Smog, Traffic, Work / February 4, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every day - high tide and low
the same metal corks float in and out
Unable to escape the pull of silver
and the carbon covered moon

Dennicia

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / February 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Judging a city by its traffic
Houston is caffeine and constipation

Two days we swear
we're on a walking tour by car
so at last we decide to take a cab across town

She pulls up wearing a smile
that would get us there if headlights failed
and a name that you could call a continent

Joseph Conrad in his Heart of Darkness
might have written a different book
if he'd been in that cab and not on that boat

Sacrifice

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Addiction, Alcohol, Art & Artists, Drugs / February 2, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Kuala Khans from minds
broken loose by
and all too soon broken by drugs

The alcohol that so many have found
as the key to their heaven and their hell

And all the wounds of daily battles
with truths wrestled to a fall

Makes me wonder if writers
like mothers and forests
sometimes lay down their bodies
that their children may grow

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Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026
Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
LeoraLawrence Porter on Sacred DanceJanuary 18, 2026
Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…
barbara joy on MessagesJanuary 16, 2026
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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