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Wedding Reception in Winnipeg

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / May 25, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The house was old and beautiful
the guests were rich and mingle

A boy from the farm
leans against the mantle
leather-bound Leaves of Grass
open in his hand

Anyone bothering to notice
might have thought
Why doesn't he try to make some friends

He and Walt smile

Albatross of the Plains

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gifts / May 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I shot a beaver in my youth
who cursed me with this curse

My teeth
will be your poems now

and in you, like me
a gift unused
grow fatal to the brain

The Gift Horse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude / May 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not so simple

If you question every action
you will find forces pull in other directions

If you look in the mouth of the horse
not all teeth will be straight
and many may have been grinding
for some time

It is more likely
that happiness will be found
by looking deep in the mouth of the adage

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

Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Beauty, Grace, Magic / May 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over
her shoulder as she sketched in the woods
A word for when the pure white horse
trailing black reins came thundering
past her and a friend on a snow white day
For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I
Sheet lighting eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start at a point over your head and shower all around you
For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other
Because of all this, it is now your word too
Thank you Gloria

Lake Louise to Jasper

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Alberta, Rocky Mountains / May 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poet
struck dumb
by
the folly
of throwing
a word against a mountain

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

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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I Haven’t Written Lately

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / April 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I haven't written lately
any narcissism poems

I haven't written lately
of loves too soon too long gone

I haven't written lately
of how their eyes were waters
where I saw myself the loveliest

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