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Traveling Seldom By Train

Poems about Poetry, Travel / April 6, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Traveling seldom by train
each wave of grass each shade of tree
finds blank page space in memory

Each cow has color each horse form
no detail fading into norm

Homes whose street face shows
makeup paint and fancy clothes
on lines that run from backyard door
let show their under-slips and more

To voyeurs who would stop for more

Getting About in a Time of Doubt

Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Connections, Covid19, Quarantine / April 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

April 2020

All day I Zoom
from shut-in room
with friends from every clime

Read myself to sleep each night
with poet friends ten centuries in time

Spring is Spring

Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Uncategorized / March 13, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

cherry blossom scent
fuelled ancient haiku flame
lilac does the same

Justifying Haiku

Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Spring / March 10, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Right and left they try
syllables pressure enough
it's spring let them fly

Photo by Ruby Doan on Unsplash

The Cowboys The Pilots and Poets

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / February 28, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Cowboys, the Pilots and Poets
The girls they say love them all

For the pilots have an air of the danger
of those who can die if they fall

While a poet’s crushed-petal scent
reflects all their beauty and pain

And a cowboy has a feel of the open
and a smell we won’t speak of again

Maybe the pilots help them feel
life’s edge of purest blue

While the poets act as mirrors
to depths they never knew

And the cowboys oh the cowboys
can touch them where it hurts

And they’ve got those fast
snap button shirts

Anvil

Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / February 21, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The anvil is a shape
that shapes all shapes

From the horseshoe
to the horseshoe nail
from the stirrup to the jail

With the mud left over
from the making of man
God made anvil

Handed it to him
and said - You do the rest

Photo by Jonathan Bean on Unsplash

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The Little Dutch Boy Writes Poetry

Poems about Poetry, Travel / February 20, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Only a drop or two
and only from time to time
but you can feel the weight
of the whole North Sea behind it

Image by luijk from Pixabay

Ode to Akhmatova

Poems about Poetry / tagged Anna Akhmatova, Russia / February 17, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

And what is this sweetness
you have brought to our table
The gnawing at the bone of our pain

The Day After Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / February 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Albert Huffstickler

Huff reading love poems
at a North Austin bookstore

The part I remember is

She wanted me to say
forever, and I thought - why not
I have said forever so many times before

But now dear Huff
now that you have stepped into forever

What will you say to all of them now

Anna

Poems about Poetry / tagged Gulag, Russia / February 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Could a drop of blood
from the pen of Anna Akhmatova
enter my blood
that I might write with a deeper red

A husband falls to the firing squad
a son in prison for no greater crime
than carrying his father’s name

Seventeen months by a Leningrad prison
she waits in line each day for word of life
mid screams of those who learn of death

She has been a poet for thirty years and more
woman in line asks, “can you describe this”
she becomes a poet now

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