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Losing

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Ancestry, Health, Humor, Science / April 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If the physicists are right
we may share molecules
with all those who went before
like Shakespeare, Socrates,
Cervantes and Tagore

It has been suggested from time to time
that I would be well to go on a diet
but it would feel too much
like parting with old friends

Rainbows of Shalott

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Curses, Observation, Science, Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott / April 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Light they say can be
either a particle or a wave
depending on the person watching

Knowing this I cautiously
watch all rainbows in a mirror now

Question for Basho II

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Youth / April 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Old frog leaps again
why does he get all the ink
young frog leaps farther

Question for Basho

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Flowers, Fruit, Maturity / April 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Haiku is always
crushing on cherry blossoms
what about cherries

Walden Pond

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Spring / April 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Springtime in the center
of a Walden Pond of sound

Small frog leaps in
fish jumps

Log rolls in from bank
beaver slaps his tail

Four swans float by
wakes overlapping

Pecan drops from
an overhanging tree

Water-fly skims
wood duck cycles wingtips

Pocohantas dips a paddle
I float

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A Bedtime Story With God In It

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Creation, imagination, Poetry & Storytelling / March 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After the mother father God
had coupled long in the joy
of telling their he-she she-he selves
stories of suns and moons
and planets and plants
and critters to scatter and fly

they said why don't we make one
that can tell tales too
and make them come true

and that my dear was you

Author’s mother reading to the family (author second from the left)

Father’s Poem

Audio Recordings, Family, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Care, Loss, Love, Nurturing / March 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My father's poems
did not come down to us on paper

He was eight years old when his mother died
his youngest brother not yet three

They say he adopted the care
of the sweet sad child
and told him a story each night

Night after night after night
new stories he made up each night

And he would gather him up in the story
and hold him there
until he slept

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The Equinox March Has Been Called Off

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Spring / March 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The nox has
equied once again
and tomorrow the day
will be longer than the night

The view getting up
from the edge of the bed
equal to the view behind

Since poets much write
of one of the other
it's a good day not to bother

The author is aware the spring equinox was a couple of days ago – which makes the point

Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Troubled

Audio Recordings, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Activism, Art & Artists, Fascism, Ireland, Oppression, Protest, Voice / March 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Irish poet Seamus Heaney
pen in his hand "snug as a gun"
was much troubled by the Troubles
and the always question of duty
of the armed to speak for the unarmed

Many died for their writing
while many more died in silence
and did anything they didn't say save anyone

Hells and Hitlers come and go
methinks there may be one again

What shall I do with this pen

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Practicing

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication, Connection, Frustration / March 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This morning I am practicing being a ghost
Thinking of all the people I can't quite touch
all the thirsts I can't quite quench

Waving my hands, reciting my poems
saying
see me ... see me

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay

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Christie flaman on Going ProMay 17, 2025
Old cowboy saying: Never a horse that couldn’t be rode, never a cowboy that couldn’t be thrown Thank you for…
Ken Christopher on Going ProMay 16, 2025
That’s pretty funny, and fun to read
Nancy Fierstien on Spring Came InMay 12, 2025
You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!
Nancy Fierstien on Remembering WhenMay 8, 2025
I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!
Ken Christopher on The Farmer’s DaughterMay 7, 2025
Very nice

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