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Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Grief / June 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

another one for Sharon
Another poem today
and you not there to share

Now answer to my whisper
and no answer to my shout

The box canyon's had the end blown out

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Wisdom

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / May 31, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I met a man I had not met
for fifty years or maybe more

Neither I nor the man I met
were the man we’d met before

I had never met the wise man
He had never met the poet

For Archbishop James Weisgerber; aka Father Jim during years at Athol Murray’s Notre Dame College

Photo: Holy Rosary Cathedral – Regina, Saskatchewan

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First Spring

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Covid19 / May 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

First spring in a while
without covid shot or bandit mask

FIrst spring without the spring tied back

First spring in a while with an open smile
First spring where one can race to embrace

First spring in a while where poetry
can be invitation to touch not replacement for

For C.A. Wiles

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connections, Death, Shakespeare / May 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As I was saying to C.A. the other day

Well actually I wasn’t
but wished I would have been
If I had known he was dying any day

I would have said
You are my twice removed
and now about to be removed
connection to Buffalo Bill
where your father worked
the Wild West Show

I made note of it
in a poem
you might recall

And I would have said
I want you to know I am as proud
to have shaken your hand as his

And I would have said
You are a prince among men
and among princes

For, though Shakespeare
may not have foretold it
there may be as many
in Texas as in Denmark

I would have said all that
or met and not said it at all

And yet C.A.
if you and I should meet
some ghost-lit night

as you step down
from your ghost rider rounds
to ponder your own
sweet moon-blanched skull
as a princely poet just might do

I would say I’m sure along with you
and every poet here

Alas poor Yorick
we did not know you well
we did not know you well enough

Image of Buffalo Bill Coin by WilliPuschel

What Mark Twain Taught

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / April 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Shores of the Mississippi
or nowhere-much Saskatchewan

If you want to write something true
the best place to start is barefoot in mud

AI Ain’t ME

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Artificial Intelligence, Connection, Technology / April 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Artificial Intelligence

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Creativity, War / April 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What a marvelous thing is man
the animal that makes things
and makes things up

Behold the medicines machines and lies
Behold all the structures that he builds
to keep him warm and keep him safe

Behold the bullets and the bombs
Behold the prisons who else needs

Behold the poems and the prose
some of truth and some of pose

Tempis

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Time Flies / April 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the caves there are paintings
thirty thousand years old
and the Sistine Chapel has been
around for a while

In Tibet and Arizona
they paint with colored sand
a Cordon Bleu feast, beautiful
for a moment then brushed away

For those who would judge
one as better than the other
I offer a poem or a psalm
in a long-remembered book

Reading it is in column one
hearing it in column two

Or how about a whispered
I love you in the ear
is it gone ... or is it here

Hi Ho Hi Ho

Audio Recordings, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Joy, Work / March 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Work

I sometimes think about it, but not too hard

Like, shouldn’t there be a different word
for doing what we love or hate for money

Like how I got to drive big trucks at eighteen
that I dreamed about at eight
and they paid me

Like playing cowboy and riding the range
where the deer and the antelope play
and getting paid

Building buildings bigger than Lego
and getting paid

Maybe work is about being serious
but I seriously question that too

I mean, what can be more joyous and serious
than a child adding one last block to his tower
or me, as I write this poem and look up
to see it is 1:25 in the morning

Not Being in Ukraine

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Atrocities, Death, Russia, Ukraine, War / March 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Not being in Ukraine
we have no right to write

Not being in Ukraine
our silence is a treachery

Ostap Slyvynsky is in Ukraine
he has a right to write of wrongs

It is two a.m. in Texas
I will not make them right by reading
will not wake anyone by not sleeping

In court there is a witness stand
made of dark wood dark things are said

If this were not so, no justice done
I will ask the steno to read them again

Ukrainian Poet Ostap Slyvynsky

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