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Reading Haiku to the Injured Oaks

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Hope, Ice Storm, Spring / March 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading haiku
to the injured oaks

Hoping to disrupt
dreams of ice and broken limbs
and the sound of saws

Bringing newness news
in somewhere all-connected
cherry blossoms soon

Shelter Belt

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / March 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The job of the trees
is to stop the snow

If they wish
to turn green
in the summer
and play with birds
no one will object

Sheets to the Wind

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Laundry / March 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reminded by Marymae the other day

of Monday's wash in Tuesday's wind
and bending sheets to bring them in

It was just enough starch
and thirty degrees below in March

About how fingers got cold as hell
but I think it was really about the smell

Yes that was the part she wanted to tell
it was really the freshness of that smell

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The Sunday-Go-Meeting Suit

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / March 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It only took but one
and it usually came in brown
for marrying in and burying in
and going off to town

The pants they came in twos
to double the life and use
each shining like an aura
from those well worn wooden pews

The Old Dry Guy and the Bath

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / March 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The old timers were all settin around the general store
I think they'd been there forever, or a few days more
hocking up gossip, and spit and an occasional snore

And as it's always been, in the west or the east
the one who knew the most; said the least
He had a face like old harness and one bad eye
to myself I called him 'the old dry guy'

Late January one year the old boys were a buzz
old Jeb had got scalded and burned off some fuzz
He'd been bathing in his kitchen in the old tin tub
and reached across for the kettle to warm up the rub
slipping he'd spilt it and lost some skin and some hair
and the boys were all speculating' how much and where

They'd talked it around for three hours or more
when the old dry guy moved in his chair by the door

They all got real quiet and leaned closer to hear

He said: "Serves the damn fool right, takin a bath this time of year"

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A World Unknown

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Personal Growth / March 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

A season I slept
and woke to a world unknown
naked in the snow

Jung Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Dreams, Psychology / March 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waking us in dreams
another frog hits the water
Jung is haiku too

Carl Has Not Left the Building

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Collective Unconscious, Dreams, Hal Stone, Psychology, Switzerland / March 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

First night in a Zurich hotel I dream
that Carl Jung is teaching across the park
Learn later that he did teach there

Also dream of sitting at a sidewalk café
with our teacher Hal who studied with Carl

Across the street and half way down the block
not surprised to find café and table still there

Hal is Hal Stone Phd., who, along with wife Sidra Stone Phd, created the Voice Dialogue method of psychological understanding

Legacy

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Hal Stone, Psychology / February 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hal met with Jung while young
in person and in dream

The world of dreams was rich to Hal
and to all who met him there

One night we sat on a corner curb
and spoke of this and that
looked up to see the intersect
clear marked Time and Wisdom

Though Hal may have taken
his last sweet breath of time
I dream the dream of meet again
at Wisdom and Forever

Dreams

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / February 27, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Digging out once again
from dreaming
I’m dreaming I’m dreaming

Where I tread pasts
and foretell futures
Embrace taboo embraces
chase and am chased
in many a circled chase

Buildings never built
I construct and walk among
Chat with Father, Mother and Carl Jung

New music I compose on a Strad
I heard in concert only once
Understand and speak
Spanish, French and Greek

Write direct and act the parts
in full-length movies

If you think in the morning I’d be tired
you’d be right

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