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Peaking of Poetry

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Art & Artists, Creativity / June 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

They speak of writers past their prime
and nothing over forty worth your time

My trick
has been to start beyond that age
with my doggerel but a starving pup

Free to write
to a hundred with room left to improve

Circling Back

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

All those long days of youth
before I was a poet
lived but not noted

I go back now
guided by bend grass
and broken branches

Attaching
toe tags of meaning
to departed days and friends

Arm’s Length

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Remembering / tagged Distance, Observation, Perspective / June 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I went back
to the old town again
I might
have to leave
again to write about it

Mossbank, Saskatchewan, circa 2025

How Can I Help

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Danger, Obsession, Politics, Protest / June 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The insensate
tank clanks closer
as you bravely protest in its path

Should I join you waving
a sign in my best couplet rhyme

or do everything I can
to pull you from the path iin time

Pilgrims

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Alcohol, Art & Artists, Drugs, Hope, Journeys, Music / June 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"Going' up was worth the comin' down" - Kris Kristofferson - "The Pilgrim"

There's Kris again
the poet and the picker
partly truth and partly fiction

signing that old song agian
trying to convince both him and me

And sometimes, like me, like as not
he thought it wisdom, sometimes rot

But I'll keep listening anyway
it's getting me through another day

Click to Listen to Kris sing “The Pilgrim”

Sleeping with Alden

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Alden Nowlan, reading / May 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Being selective in who
you take to bed is always good advice

but dead poets will sleep with anyone

And even
if you catch something that won't wash off
wonder drugs
will not be needed, except the drug of wonder

Punch Line

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Humor, Impact / May 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Punch line in poem
soft hammer to humerus
or fist to the gut

The Doggerel Ate My Homework

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Humor / May 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The doggerel ate my homework
and threw it up on the China rug

Just so you'd know I wouldn't lie
I picked up the bits and let them dry
and sorted them the best I could
though they now don't rhyme so good

I'm not expecting to get an A in lit
how about one for effort makin em fit

Writer With No Pain

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Communication, Expression / May 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Writer with no pain
will work cheap for those who have
and cannot write it

Write Like an Egyptian

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Comfort / May 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I borrow heavy words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light
- Wislawa Szymborska

To write a poem

Lighter than a featehr
to pass Osiris' stern test
and earn its way to heaven

Or heavier than
the heart that failed
the one that needs consoling

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Thanks for sharing this one, my friend. It packs a good punch, line after line. I'll be glad to give…
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I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!

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