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Prairie Trumpet

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Fear, Threats, Trump / January 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bull pawing the ground
doesn't mean he'll charge for sure
best run anyway

Sleeping on MAGA’s Couch

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Control, MAGA, Politics, Regret / January 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Primaried now and out in the cold
cause I couldn't be bullied to bend

You might be wearing the red hat now
could be eating orange snow in the end

Past Translating Present

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Dictators, Joy, MAGA, Nazi, Perspective, Power, Regret, Trump / January 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In her youth she'd been a Hitler Youth
filled with purpose and power
and the joy of pre-teen camaraderie

All now dimmed and damned wheen seen
through smoke from Auschwitz ovens
though somewhere in her still it shines
brightest diamond of her life

This was the story, or was it two
she sought my help to put to poem

That was thirty years ago
I might do a better job today
informed by watching rallies
filled with power hope and joy
and how it will look in their regret

And Still They Waltzed

Audio Recordings / tagged Fascism, Nazi, Occupation, Politics, Trump / January 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That was Vienna then

When jackboots glid
from note to note across a polished floor
with local girls that did not want to die

Will this be America now

Living in the Days of Mad Kings

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Leadership, Politics / January 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No mad kings in England
no Magna Carta or America

It is hard to think long strides
with swords hacking at your ankles
and leaping forward to look back
not a skill that we've uncovered
nor likely to be around to enjoy
it if comes out okay again

Centrepiece

Audio Recordings / tagged Deception, Learning / January 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You don't see
that many bowls
of wax fruit anymore

Bananas and apples
and orange and grapes
in seasons when there were none

Supermarkets supersede
and three-year-olds have to learn
what they have to learn another way

Cars with Snarls

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Vehicles / January 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In these angry times
all the cars wear angry snarls
harder to smile back

Volvo Yearning For Its Youth

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Aging, Cars, Change, Experience, Perspective, Transportation, Trump / January 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

White hood turning gray
hail pocked like parked
at the driving range all day

Sunroof glued shut
from resting under live oak lust

Suspension creaking like the knees
of the owners getting out and in

And yet she still has all her gears
keeps family safe from Tesla fears

Likes to call them wisdom dents
and will not support mad presidents

Terminal

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Death, Heaven, Hell, Materialism, Temptation / January 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Direct flights
to heaven are for angels only

Most of us will have to go
through hell or Dallas on the way

Your luggage will be lost in Denver
and moving sidewalks mostly don't

The whole hall is one long mall
meant to tempt you on your way
and the big board for listing gates
never states which is the pearly one

Photo of Denver International Airport

Not Quite Sainthood

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Humor, Last Word, Presidents, Trump / January 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Jimmy Carter was
an eminently decent man

but not above living this long
just to throw half-mast shade
on an inauguration parade

Image courtesy of The Carter Center

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Good one, it’s still goin on
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My former comment had an error, should have read: Great poem Neil, has some slippery elements that mix it up…
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Siblants interlapping with interference waves construct this delightful hologram of spring: well done my friend
Ken Christopher on Minutia in MarchApril 1, 2025
21 beats, 4 past hyku, (sp); perhaps a new form. Beautiful poem

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