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This Times a Thousand

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Communication, Frustration, Misunderstanding, Sadness / November 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What I wanted to say
was that words can't say
what I was wanting to say

There are languages
that I do not know
that say it in pictures

Maybe if I learned a few
I could finally say to you

Or fail a thousand times as sadly

Stranger Connections

Audio Recordings, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Compassion, Love, Wisdom / November 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The small round Rinpoche at Esalen
was teaching Tibetan compassion

Start from where you are he said
feel the love you feel for one or two
or the people nearest dearest to you

Holding that feeling indiluted
add one more and then one more
til you start to feel the feeling fade
then pull back in til you feel it again

Sit with this today all day
and tomorrow try to add another
and if that works then add another
til every man becomes your brother

Jeanne-Marie Makes Bread

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Baking, Philosophy, sensuality / November 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

She thinks about
the stillness of hummingbird
and motion at the heart of stone

The love that holds
and the love that allows

The soft wisdom of sheep
and meaning in moon and stars

Flouring her hands
she kneads the poem and the bread

Shapes them with centuries
of deep woman knowing

Leans down
and kisses the rising loaf

War Wounds

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Epigenetics, Memory, PTSD, Trauma, War / November 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are, the epigenticists say
memories that haven't gone away

What happened to
your grandma when the troops came by
is still barbed-wire wrapped around your DNA

Dreams that aren't yours
neurons firing like the war's still on
and mines set off by a word or a touch

So please be gentle with one another
and your mother and your mother's mother

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Parent and Grandparent Stories

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Epigenetics, Generations, History, Sharing, Trauma / November 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So many stories
in so many boxes tied
with so many strengths of string

Hero stories to inspire
Cautionary tales to prevent repeat
Funny stories to remind life can be

Stories with too much pain
or too much shame
for listener or for teller

Stories they didn't tell
and stories they wouldn't tell
all part of our story if we heard them or not

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The Tao Jones Average

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Balance, Perspective, Philosophy, Self Awareness / November 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That squiggly line on every graph

Between
the doing and the being
Between
the grasping and the letting go

Between
the white dot in the black
and the black dot in the white

of us all

Learning Love

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Care, Child, Illness, Love, Parents / October 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sitting by your sick child's bed
and willing every breath till dawn
you learned what love was
and that
you would ever be a slave to it
and that's
what makes the world go round

How Is It That I Laugh

Audio Recordings, News, Relationships / tagged Celebration, Death, Friendship, Grief, Israel, Jerusalem, Memory, Palestine, War / October 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How is it that I laugh easier now
eve though so many
that I laughed with laugh no more
and at their memory can only smile

In Isreal on the Mount of Olives
we were included in a wedding party
where Muslims drank orange soda
men danced with men and laughed

So much of the world is far from fun
but that was yesterday and tomorrow
In the hotel of seven arches only joy

Hotel 7 Arches sits atop the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem

Twin Oaks

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / October 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the Cartwright ranch
the one by Corpus Christi
two oaks have grown to form a heart

The trees are of the live oak breed
and bear their leaves all the year
for a thousand years and more

Which may not be
eternal love
but close enough
for Miss C. and me

Border Song

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Connection / October 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Our neighbors
have an oak tree as do we

A fence between
does not prevent their touching tenderly

No passports are required
No border guards stand guard

The bounds of their
affection are not measured yard by yard

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Ken Christopher on Never Thought Of It As SolitudeNovember 19, 2024
Very nice!
Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!

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