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Robbie Burns’ Birthday

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Whiskey, Whisky / January 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Honoring the sage
Scotch gets better age by age
drink to sacred page

Celebrating “The Bard of Scotland” Robert Burns

Inscrutable

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / January 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reaching not reaching
the heart of the Orient
syllables too few

Cold

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Poems about Poetry / January 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Forty below in Celsius
is forty below in Fahrenheit

Suffering is often involved

In Canada they make jokes
In Russia they make poems

At these temperatures
the blood from a Russian poet
freezes on the way to the ground

They break off the icicle
and Hara-kiri it into the next stanza

Ice Fishing

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Creativity, Patience / January 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Searching for a poem
half-formed last summer fall
afloat in a small bark boat

Turning to see the river thick with ice
I've carved a hole and wait with bait

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Winter on Mt Olympus

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Halfway up the mountain
the muses nine dance till dawn

round fire from an ember
Prometheus dropped on his way down

And poets shivering near the pole
feel the warmth and stir of soul

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Ode to Neruda’s Socks

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Comfort, Warmth / December 27, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This is an ode
to Pablo Neruda's socks
knitted for him by Maru Mori
with her sheepherder hands

Socks as soft as rabbits he says
and we watch as he slips them on
metaphor by metaphor simile by simile

What is good he concludes is doubly good
when it's a matter of two wooden socks in winter

What can one say but triple same
wooden socks a warm fire and one of his books

And a link to the poem that inspired this one – “Ode to My Socks” by Pablo Neruda

Seeds

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Community, Inspiration / December 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(or Austin International Poetry Festival)
Birds seed lakes
flying with fish roe
between each muddy toe

Spiking
each pond with pike
and smaller fish that pike like

The poets from England were here last year
including Jay and bearded imp John Row
carrying seeds between each muddy toe
and smaller

Dinner with Robert Bly

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / December 8, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bly orders oysters like Hafiz and Rumi
Richest food on the menu
Swallows them whole
Offers them to all who share his table

Horses are Dangerous Critters

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Death, Horses, Luck / November 21, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Make no mistake
every ride you are taking
reins and your life in your hands

Who can forget Bonnie Blue Butler
breaking hearts of Scarlett and Rhett
Christopher Reeve thrown like kryptonite
or Maxentius thrown and drowned in the Tiber

And the time Pinto Pete
steps in a prairie badger hole
while running full speed down the hill
and ass over teakettle does a full forward flip
ending up standing, me beside him reins in hand

Sometimes you live to write the poem
sometimes someone else will have to do it for you

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Herding Poems

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / November 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Herding Poems
(for Patricia)

My father had sons
to help him herd the cows

I have a daughter
to help me herd the poems

He had ten thousand acres
we have all the acres of the world

His won ribbons at the feeder show
ours, when entered, won some prizes too

He would stand for hours
to watch them feeding and grown fat

I sometimes get out a book and do just that

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