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Oakmagadon

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Destruction, Ice Storm, Mourning, Support, Texas, Trees / February 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two weeks after
the once in a never before ice storm
branches are still falling from the oaks

Being branches from live oaks
the leaves which never leave are left
silvering in great piles along the streets

Hundreds of years old
Sophia shudders barer in the cold

It would take a hands-clasped minyan
chosen from the chosen ones to hug her

She looks like she needs that hug — What’s a minyan?

Snowbirds in Flight

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Winter / February 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Icicles are seldom but never not curved
given the shape of eavestroughs and all
and deaths not uncommon when they fall
Many a Canadian grown up with that threat
and each year older holding harder to living
will run from that moon as fast as they can
and not until next April will you see them again

Leap Years

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Covid19 / February 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadie_Hawkins_Day

Just Blues

Audio Recordings, News, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Death, Despair, Friendship, Sadness / February 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

“Nothing” the unjust man complained
“is just”(“or un-” the just rejoined
e.e. cummings

Just coughing my way thru covid

Just reading the morning news
full of earthquakes and arrogance

Just noting that the cow
(meaning the price of beef)
has jumped over the moon
and taken the lettuce with it

Just missing to the bone
my bucket brigade of joy
who have kicked it

Just not pulling off this time
that old cure for the curse

Just not feeling any better
because others got it worse

The Eddie Arnold Kitchen Collection

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Ranch Life, String Too Short To Save / tagged Humor, Music / February 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mom & Dad on Valentines Day

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Love, Parents, Valentine / February 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Valentines were for at school
cheap paper hearts twice folded

Adults never played that game
but we could all tell all the same

In loving memory of the author’s parents

Old Sappy Love Song

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia / tagged Humor, Love, Valentine / February 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Heart
carved in
a maple tree
weeps sweet in memory

Fun in the Kitchen

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry / tagged Feeding, Mom / February 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Author’s parents in the new ranch kitchen

Sayings From an Old Ranch Kitchen

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Eating, Mother / February 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"Clean off your plate
there are starving people in China"
"Take the last food from the bowls
we'll have a nice day tomorrow"
I never put it together this way
but the people in China
must have always had a nice day

Cookies on the Ranch

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Baking, Childhood, Food, Mother / February 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stars press their simple shapes into the sky - Dorianne Laux

Mom had shapers of thinnest tin
to make the stars and quarter moons

In a house this size and drafty
there was no way or wish to hide
from doors from the old wood stove
building building to the dawn of done

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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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