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In Dying the Dying

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Journey, Loss / January 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In dying the dying
must look to the dead

and hope the the years
of forgetting their name
will not be met by the same

In dying the dying must look to the dead

The living can only
wave clinging from shore
what you'll need is the dead
with the map and the oar

So call to them now
send food if you can
they forgave you before
pray they'll do it again

Grave Robber

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loss, Love / January 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I believe in a place better
why would I wish to lure
them back to a lesser

And if I believe that love
is not one of those things that you can't take with you
then they have mine with them

And hopefully though I feel the urge
remember what cannot give by taking

They Go to Prepare a Place

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Love / January 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may not
be fatal to be loved by me
but sometimes it seems to be

I will not here name the names
most you will find in other poems
filled with yearnings of other homes

Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who lit my life and left
true in joy and song
a lie in that muses do not die

How Lonely

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aphrodite, Connection, Dionysus, Hera, Medusa, mythology, Zeus / January 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How lonely must
the Greeks have been
to create so many gods

All powerful fathers
all manner of mothers

Sisters, brothers, cousins
for one to embrace or fear

an aunt with snaky hair
an uncle over fond of wine

nobody wants to go
to a party without a story to tell

For the Poetry

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Education / January 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For the poetry
I have walked long walks
on large ranch with faithful dog
and picked the crocus from the earth

For the poetry
I have comforted
a mother and bowed to a father

Gone to schools
that taught strange things
and passed them on to others

Fallen in love and never out
rode horses and flown planes
and built buildings stick by stick

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To Feel is to Understand

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Experience, Sharing, Story / January 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don't show me
a ball of twine of your conclusions
without the threads that made it up

Is it heavy as the world
Atlas carried upon his back
or light as a child's bouncing toy

Show me the strings
of failure pain and joy

take me on your journey's track
that we may roll it forth and back

Poems Over Their Skis

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection / December 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poems belong to those that need them
Mario to Pablo Neruda in Il Postino

Sometimes poets and poems
think they know who needs them

Who it will change for the better
or who might laud them loudly

Well meaning though they might be
they've lost the plot if there was one

Let them open Neruda anywhere
and pull the string to loose the bow
or the gift he gave to you he did not know

Trouble in Paradise

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Marriage / December 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Alfred Huffstickler)

You were reading
at the Northwest Austin Borders
Line I remember went something like this

She wanted me to say forever, and so I thought, why not, I have said forever so many times before

But now dear Huff, now that you have stepped into forever

What will you say to all of them now

The Icon

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Fame, Fans / December 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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