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Embracing Our Messengers

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Communication, Wisdom / October 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand W.H. Auden

The demons and daemons are dancing

and the head of every pin thick with angels

The dead are with us and the long dead too
with messages for the world
and messages for me and you

We are all guests at Blake's
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
but do we say "I do"

Sagrada Familia

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Architecture, Beauty, Church, Spain / October 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It took Antoni Gaudi to see
that if a tree can be a cathedral
a cathedral can also be a tree

That is still stands is proof
that the branches from its trunks
can hold the canopy of the roof

It is trite and true to say
that Gaudi build poetry

and I'd love to build a poem
where one could come and sit

as softly on a hardwood pew
in a place so radiant lit

Poet Trees in Fall

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Communication / October 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Irving Layton)

Branches naked in the wind
pointing to their works below
molding their way into the grave

A Shadow of My Farmer Self

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Work / October 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The one
who got up with the summer sun
and toiled till the work was done
is done

The one
who would’ve slept the winter away
if it wasn’t for critters hungry ways
now versifies on his clock
with Seamus Heaney’s squat pen
resting between finger and thumb
instead of a three-tined pitchfork
raising blisters in the hot, hot sun

Credit: Seamus Heaney; DIGGING https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47555/digging

Fun in the Kitchen

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Poems about Poetry / tagged Feeding, Generosity / October 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The joy
I get putting
a poem on your plate

My mother got
three times a day
and fed more by it

Author’s parents in the new ranch kitchen

The Gift Horse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Acceptance, Generosity, Gratitude, suspicion / October 12, 2025 / 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

Old Train Math

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Remembering / September 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If a train leaves Moose Jaw
heading west at the speed of first memory

Engine, cars and caboose
zebra-ing by behind a snow fence
smoke billowing back over its shoulder

And another leaves, traveling east
from my writing of it now

When will they meet
at the small town of Courval
and your reading of this page

Aging Gratefully

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Discovery, Hope, Pain, Science / September 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Knees of jelly and hip of steel
bones stronger where they broke
but not more flexible

And yet, and still
quantum physics and poetry
light that bends but does not end

The walking is a little tough
the flying is going well

Robert Frost in the Multiverse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Choices, Journey, Life, Opitions / September 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood

and I took the one less
and the one more traveled by

In Preparation For Israel

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In preparation for Isael
I have the poems of Yehuda Amichai

If I read them I may need fewer maps
If I read them well I may need no maps
If I read them very well I may not need to go

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Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
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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