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Heart to Heart

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Connection, reading, Writing / September 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My heart rests on your heart
as you hold this book to your breast

Your heart on my heart I may never know

Word Divisions

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication / August 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can know your native language
and still feel all alone
as pilots talk to pilots
in a code that’s all their own

Yet not even one to one
can they share that love of air
or touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

Sailors talk to sailors
of wind and sail and rope
of nights upon the ocean
of courage and of hope

Yet the words just can’t convey
their love of sea and air
nor touch the other’s feelings
of the fear and beauty there

And though cowboys talk to cowboys
in a special kind of drawl
there’s still a space between them
the words can’t tell at all

Not those nights of cold and stars
with coyotes on the air
nor the call of open spaces
with the fear and beauty there

Watch as lovers talk to lovers
in ways only two can share
as they build between them
a framework light and fair

While a web that’s spun of maybes
hangs so fragile in the air
that one false word can shatter
into pain, the beauty there

And yet

There are still some crazy poets
out riding hatless in the sun
still trying to do the very thing
we all know can’t be done

Still Quixoting for a language
that can speak to everyone

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The Little Train that Used to Could

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Aging, Death, Friendship / August 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Behold with what companions I rode the rails

Mile-long link of boxcars with names along the side
coopered and filled with love and contradictions
and tanker cars of jet fuel we thought would last forever

One by one they shunted off to that no-exit siding
and with every car that’s gone and gone
Jesus in the caboose getting closer to the engine

A Friend Came and Went

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Solitude / August 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend came and went
loneliness now lonelier
will a haiku help

Young Revere the Old

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Aging, Friendship, Respect / August 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Young revere the old
an admonition most wise
may old do so too

Mother’s Poem

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Care, Love / August 5, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The kitchen has always been the center of the universe of any farm or ranch

She feeds their sleepy forms in morning
clothes them for the cold or warm
and prays them safe from harm

Looks out her window to the east
where barn shadows and rolling hills
greet them as they start their day

Men in firm direction to their work
children scattering to play

Then south across the lake to catch the water's mood foretelling wind or calm

Sometimes sees in morning
mirages of cutbanks rising
like mountains along the Eastern shore

Or more directly to the south
forms of her neighbour's homes rising and shimmering like memories of her youth

Seasons spiral out and in from this center
crocus and buttercups in the greening grass
cactus flowers and the joy of newborn calves

The growing season of the grain
and golden glory of a well stooked field

The shortening of days into winter
and the ever present stars
joined by the dance of northern lights

Within each season she has watched the play of seasons of each day
men returning from roundup
children from their play

While she waits always at the center
to warm and love

and safely tuck away

Mom and brother Wally in the ranch kitchen 1952

Quantum Lunch

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Science / July 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is nothing stable in this table

And yet
the ever so quickly spinning
nothingness that is me
is happy this particle-wave filled morning
to rest on it with non-existent elbows
and gaze and gaze
at the improbable you

Meeting for Coffee

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connetion, Story / July 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A friend is a story

Leap ahead ten years of pages
to the few
they care to share and in whatever order

You will have to make up the rest

The Badger

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / July 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Observe the badger
creature of the earth

See how she moves
with the grace and ferocity
of tectonic plates

Observe the badger
but do not try to pet
her soft earth softness

Do not let your hand
get caught
between the plates

Lost Octopus

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Loneliness, Pain, Struggle / July 3, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh how we flail
when we're hurt and unheard

Surely we can find
somewhere anywhere to connect

One listening friend would be great
and, better yet, two or four or eight

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Ken Christopher on Sitting in My Father’s DeskSeptember 2, 2024
Very good!, I liked’d the Emily Dickinson one too, powerhouse babe all from the solitude of her room. Shen you…
Ken Christopher on AnnaAugust 30, 2024
Great poem!
Barbara Reichlin on Frank Gehry DesignsAugust 25, 2024
Love it
Nancy Fierstien on Word DivisionsAugust 21, 2024
I'm calling this a "Keeper," Sir...and I thank you very much for sharing it!
Joy on The Useless LakeAugust 12, 2024
That lake A science lesson to discuss the word “mirage “ when the sun was bright . When the cut-banks…

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