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Black Sky in the Morning

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Free Speech, Hate, Journalism, Trump / February 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A Krakatoa cloud
is spreading across the land
filled with blitzkrieg lightning
and hell hath no fury like it hail

The Achilles heel of Rumplestiltskin
was naming him by name
where is the princess or the poet
who in these times will dare the same

Titanic America II

Audio Recordings, News / January 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A great ship has struck
a great rock in the ocean
who gets the lifeboats

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Titanic America

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Change, Destruction, MAGA / January 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once more a great force
strikes a greater in the sea
most of it unseen

Image by Đỗ Thiệp from Pixabay

Buffalo Dance

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Activism, Change, Choice, Perspective, Politics, Trump / January 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd
but you can be happy if you've a mind to - Roger Miller

Buffalo Bill is back
in the White House for a while

But somewhere
buffalo bulls are sowing
and somewhere herds are growing

Four years of calves from now
the curves of one will pass the other
and you'll be happy if you've a mind to

The Buffalo Treaty https://buffalorelations.land Transferring intergenerational knowledge and sharing amongst Nations.

Freeing the Minions

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Injustice, January 6, Justice, Pardon, prisoner, Trump / January 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

By yon courthouse steps
blindfolded Justice holds her scales

With a small smile today
that those sent on treason tasks
will not in dungeons dankness rot
while he who sent them sits a throne

Though just as happy
fair being fair
if he had joined them there

Image by Dieter from Pixabay

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

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

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

Election in 17 Syllables

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News / tagged Choice, Democracy, Trump / January 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Voters had a voice
for democracy or bread
they opted for bread

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Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
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Wow!

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