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Holocaust Happens

Audio Recordings, News, Remembering / tagged Death, Education, Holocaust, War / January 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Yesterday was holocaust reminder day
Remembrance day for those who remember
Reminder day for those who forgot
Shofar calling to those who’ve never heard

Timmy’s Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Charity, Community, Help, Rescue / January 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Timmy’s down the well
or in the words of Lassie
Woof woof woof arf arf woof
Timmy’s down the well

Lay down your tools
set aside your quarrels
everyone come running
Timmy’s down the well

There’s nothing like
a big-bellied Biafran baby
to open hearts and wallets

Nothing like a crooked grin
to get us on the Smile Train

It’s happening again in Haiti
the smallest with the least
are calling to our largest best

Sometimes it takes a child
to raise a village

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Courage Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Tenacity / January 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Arthur Fisher for example
who sold the ranch to Dad
and gave me my first name
and a lake-stone ring he’d made

All alone in
the twenties dug a well by the house
lowering himself into a dark dirt shaft
that could cave him dead at any second

100 feet down, an inch at a time
and how did he get the heavy bucket up

How did he feel when he hit the capstone
picked up the pickaxe and the shovel
moved a hundred feet and started again

Robbie Burns’ Birthday

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Whiskey, Whisky / January 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Honoring the sage
Scotch gets better age by age
drink to sacred page

Celebrating “The Bard of Scotland” Robert Burns

Inscrutable

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / January 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reaching not reaching
the heart of the Orient
syllables too few

Year of the Rabbit Day Two

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Astrology, Fate, Life, Luck / January 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The years shall run like rabbits - W.H. Auden

And the rabbit is off
with the hounds chasing

the track is twelve years long

The rabbit grows slower
the hounds grow ever nearer

Will we make it round once more

The Rabbit is one of the 12 Animals of the Chinese Zodiac

Year of the Rabbit

Audio Recordings / tagged Chinese New Year, Luck, Lunar New Year, New Beginnings / January 22, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Information Highway Road Rage

Audio Recordings / tagged Frustration, Technology / January 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I have a new blue phone
if it was not new and blue
I know what I would do
when I get the next spam text

Already, even friendly fire
makes a deep-threat sonar bleep
that kicks my brain to red alert
with don't-ignore adrenal spurt

A pillow to cover might work fine
but that one came from yours not mine

Frost Bite

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Grief, Healing, Heartbreak, Winter / January 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

In January on the Wood River
the laces got wet and then stiff
and could not be untied

Walked the wimpering long mile home
in one frozen skate and one warm boot
part of my foot and all my toes
numb and milky white

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

Too much warmth all at once
can bring the feeling rushing back
with more pain than you can stand

I have since learned
- and this is the hard part-
It is the same way with the heart

From Canada With Love

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Winter / January 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter winds of icy chill
to drive you from
the os and 1s of your screens
into the twos and more of each others arms

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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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