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Embracing Our Messengers

Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Angels, Devils, Guides / February 19, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The demons and daemons are dancing

and the head of every pin thick with angels

The dead are with us and the long dead too
with messages for the world
and messages for me and you

We are all guests at Blake’s
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
but do we say “I do”

The Day After Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / February 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Albert Huffstickler

Huff reading love poems
at a North Austin bookstore

The part I remember is

She wanted me to say
forever, and 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

A Valentines Poem with Thorns

Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Love / February 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The beauty of a rose always
outweighs the pain
of the thorn

In this same spirit I would pray
that Valens be forgiven
their tines

Only when we bleed can we see
what lives within
the heart

Image by Capri23auto from Pixabay

Jeanne-Marie Makes Bread

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / February 11, 2020 / 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

St. Elsewhere

Relationships, Travel / February 7, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It starts
when they bring the wrong baby home
the other, which is me, where is he
also roaming the world to see

Beemers

Relationships / tagged Meditation, Visualization / February 4, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sharon meditates
to a fine-tuned hum

Somewhere there is
a car carrying that note

It finds her

High Lonesome

Nature, Personal Growth, Relationships / January 29, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lonely ain’t lonely
where sky and tree are all me
and you yes you too

Image by Markus Distelrath from Pixabay

Tears

Relationships / tagged Boys, Men, Vulnerability / January 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s not that
big boys and men don’t cry

The tear ducts
are just shaped different

And it all runs down inside

Photo of Ruby Falls near Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Designer Coffee

Nostalgia, Relationships, Travel / January 24, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It’s not the first cup that I want

It’s the warm-up to the top

Not with latte-frappe foam
but the sweetness that is “Hon”

Photo by Skyler Gerald on Unsplash

Cowboy Chivalry

Cowboy Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Smoking / January 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The gallantry
to thumbnail strike the match
and cup the hands to shade the wind
to light the damsel’s cigarette

The courage
to kiss that breath

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