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Flying the Yellow Flag

News / tagged Covid19, Cowardice, Disease, Government, Quarantine / May 23, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Is covid the new cholera

Where leaders lead
or flag in their response

The more half-assed
the more half masts

History of yellow flags warning of diseasehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_flag_(contagion)

Morning in America

News / tagged Covid19, Prison / May 12, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Covid walls
and irony bars
do not a prison make

Observe if you will
that those who do most locking up
resist the most the locking down

And now that all are prisoners all
learn not to give what we can’t take

Under the Bed

News, Relationships / tagged Anxiety, Covid19, Fear, Isolation, Nightmare / May 2, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In this dream between worlds

There may sometimes be
monsters astir under the bed
foul of breath and orange of face

If you are fortunate enough
to not be sleeping alone
reach out and touch

He will go away

Smeltering in Place

News, Relationships / tagged Covid19, Isolation, Lockdown / April 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Pressure creates heat

Some metals merge
and steel in strength

Others melt their separate ways

Literary Devices

News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Covid19 / April 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Metaphor or simile

A corona virus is
or is like a naval mine

The difference has much
to do with your point of view

Observed in the news
it is the latter

If a collision occurs
it is the former

Easter Sunday 2020

News / tagged Covid19, Easter, Faith, resurrection / April 12, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

May the god of your choice bless you. - kinky friedman
This stone will be rolled
from the entrance of the cave
keep the faith viral

San Andreas Fault

Nature, News / tagged Covid19, Leadership / March 29, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is March 2020
off a cliff

Fast past 2000
virus deaths

Lemming number 1
leading — The San Andreas Earthquake Fault cracks open the Carrizo Plain

Driving on the Tracks

Audio Recordings, News, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Pandemic / March 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think you are supposed
to take some air out
of the tires

It wasn’t something
that we thought about
gliding across the prairie night
with no one needing to steer
and lots of cold beer
and the throttle
(they had throttles then)

It is something we would
probably have thought about
going across the old wooden trestle
that and the freights that run at all hours

Except that we were too busy
holding back our friend in the back
almost as strong as the three of us
in his full blown panic

Trying to leap
over the front seat
to grab the quivering wheel

Image by David Mark from Pixabay

Napoleonic Complexion

News / tagged Despots, Politics / March 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you pray for the mentally ill a soft voice is suggested
a lot of Napoleons out there with delusions of power no more dangerous than Elba unkind to vote them off the island
And as for those with delusions and power one calls them on it at some risk
Not every hand will come out of the coat empty

2020 in the Crosshairs

News / tagged Injustice, War / February 18, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

May the
greedy who grasp
find the feeding in giving

and soldiers see mirrors
in all of their sights

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