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Gifts

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / May 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is a settling rising
There is a richness and a heaviness
in the words and gifts
There is the gold polished by the sand
heavy in the sluices
Pulling my hands upwards
against its weight

The Quilt

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / May 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Meri Walker

You make it using
materials from all your old garments

Clothes that you have worn
for weddings, vacations, births and deaths
all the best days of your life and all the worst

When you give the gift, your friend says
“Thank you, this is perfect
it is sometimes very cold
where I am living at present
and this will get me through the winter”

Stumbling to Jerusalem

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / May 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I had got it right where I was
I'd still be right where I was

All the had-it-mades that never made
as I failed my way from trade to trade

Yet here I am where I'm glad to be
with all mill down to poetry

The Busman’s Holiday

Audio Recordings, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Writing / May 5, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I’ve done it now
run out of places to hide
painted myself into a corner
surrounded on every side

For like every pilot
that ever learned to fly
I’ve got to help the captain
when I’m in the sky

And the time I’ve spent a thumbing
and a hauling heavy loads
links me with the Gypsies
that I meet along the roads

And if I look from side to side
at the land along the way
why the farmer and the rancher in me
wants to have its say

And if I should stop to rest
at an inn along the way
the years I’ve spent in
running one
with constant detail mars
my stay

If that wasn’t bad enough
now I’ve started out to write
and every shadow, thought,
or urge that comes to me
both day and night

has a message and a pull
to my soul and to my pen
so that I may never be
alone - or at rest again

What Grows on the Farm

Audio Recordings, Farm, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / April 26, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That one could
live here all their lives
and know nothing, or know everything

That one could
leave here and come back
and see everything, or see nothing

And after the harvest would it all be the same

Vortextual

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Ranch Life / tagged Perspective / April 25, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing on the prairie
long enough to know

That the middle of nowhere
is also
the centre of everywhere

Circling Back

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Remembering / April 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All those
long days of youth
before I was a poet
lived but not noted

I go back now
guided by bend grass
and broken branches

Attaching toe tags of meaning
to departed days and friends

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Jerusalem and Other Travels

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Despair, Faith, Hope / April 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I wake in the night
in a prison of my making
rattling the bars of might have been
and should and should not have done

Unable to escape I pace and I wait

For Buddha to melt the illusion

Or for Jesus to open the door
with sweet forgiveness

Or God to at least send along
a minor prophet with
a file in a cake

The Old Place

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / March 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Drove past the old place today
amazed at how small and dark
it had suddenly become

Like your mind just before3
you learned the thing
that changed everything

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Becoming the Sea

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Personal Growth, String Too Short To Save / February 25, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Becoming the Sea
I thought that I thought something
then I wasn't shore

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