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Exemplum Trahit – Example Draws

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Notre Dame, Teacher / September 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Motto of 1955 Bachelor of Arts graduates
At Notre Dame in grade ten
the coach taught English too

No course outline to guide
and no homework for us or him

Cy would bow
his blond adonis head
into an ancient book of verse

and read it with such love
we had no choice but to follow him

In loving memory of Cy (Pope) MacDonald

Echoes Fading

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Grief / September 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

No answer to my whisper
and no answer to my shout

The box canyon's had the end blown out

Leonard Toujours

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / September 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Leonard looking down
Quel Mona Lisa visage
Montreal looks up

Mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal, Quebec

Missing Leonard

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Grief / September 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Leonard Cohen is gone
He doesn't call, he doesn't write

So huddle with me now
fellow worshipers and weepers

Huddle with me now
round the poem and the song
and listen for the breadcrumb
and the hint of old perfume

that speak of other ways to God
that through the holes
in Jesus and the goddess

Requiem

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / August 20, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"There is nothing sad about an empty shell"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
My poetry
is the shell
I leave you now
It's spiralled substance
all I've known of life and love
See how it winds, and ever opens
stained with all the colours of my growth
and every gift and every touch of all of you and more
Hold it to your ear - you may hear the ocean

Dark Eyed Lady

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / August 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

An instant connection
with riches and light
that's deep than centuries
and warmer than life

Though if death's darkness
is as welcoming as this
no wonder people hurry
to sink into that bliss

And though I'm pretty sure
I'm not ready to be dead
I'd like to sit by those waters
and rest my weary head

And drop pebbles of my poetry
just to watch the ripples spread

Ode to a Dying Rose

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Death, Life / August 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If poems could not
be written about love and death
the shelves would be lighter for it

How much lighter you ask

How about empty

The Midas Touch

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gifts / August 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

King Midas wrote poems
in the finest of gold

and gave them to friends
or so I am told

Barred as he was
from touching in any
ordinary way

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Cloud Plowed Fields

Audio Recordings, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / August 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I hear that line at an Austin open mic.
and I want it - actually I want it back
this is my line, how did he find it first

In any case - I hear the line, and Bam!
I am back in a cloud-scudding sun-baking
Saskatchewan summer fallow summer

Black lands between the glowing gold
John Deere with its hard iron hooves
ripping up the roots and seeds
of the flowers no-one wanted
call them weeds

Sometimes cutting worms in half
(I hear that they grow back)

While the little poet sits
by the caragana hedge
choking on the flowers no-one wanted

Can’t Take the Farm Out of the Boy

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / August 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What I learned
of poetry from my father
is that the tractor signs
at just this RPM

Author and his dad on Oliver 88 tractor

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