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Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

Gratitude Junkie

Audio Recordings, Family, Travel / tagged Feast, Gathering, Thanksgiving / October 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Turkeys are not a migratory bird
but they'll be there when you get there

As long as it's after mid-October
and drumsticks and pumpkin pie
with the apples of my Canadian eye

And before the third week in November
where American friends have a table set
for my second thanksgiving of the year

Who wouldn't be doubly grateful for that

Jeep

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Remembering, Travel / October 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dad had a Willys Jeep
That took us to school for a while

In the wet it was wet, in the cold it was cold

Our baby teeth bounced from our jaws
And bruises covered every bum

We knew that it was built for war – it felt like war

Robert Frost in the Multiverse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Choices, Journey, Life, Opitions / September 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood

and I took the one less
and the one more traveled by

Last Day in June

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dinner at the English Bay Cafe
first day the sun had shone since May

Everyone in Vancouver
looking like they'd won the lottery

After by the water
sitting not alone on a driftwood log
missing flight after flight back to Alberta

No one knows where they go when they die
and airplanes sometimes fall out of the sky

Why hurry to leave the heaven that's here

Sagrada Familia Familiar

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Barcelona, Cathedrals, Creation, Gaudi / September 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Don Quixote was an architect
he lunged with many lances at the sky

Cloud castles may have maidens in them
to rescue your soul in rescuing them

What beauty lies in madness
lies close to the skin of the seeming sane

And what magic falls with the rain in Spain

A Poem Before Holland

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands / September 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I travel to Holland
on wings of a childhood story
silver skates and a finger in a dike

To lands wrestled from an angry sea
a sea that dearly wants them back
Unceasing vigilance to keep the prize
a dark line drawn across their eyes

I see windmills chop the salt wet air
art and flowers leaping up in faith
behind thin walls

Back to the little boy and the dike again
legal drugs and red lights in the rain
These are a fair and sturdy people
I like them now, and I like how

In a land where children must
so often act as men
they do not pass acts that treat
their men as children

In Preparation For Israel

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In preparation for Isael
I have the poems of Yehuda Amichai

If I read them I may need fewer maps
If I read them well I may need no maps
If I read them very well I may not need to go

Traveling Under Cautions Against

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Crowded places where people
with grievances real or scriptured
make their point with bombs and such

Draw circles of safety if you must
and trust the angels that you trust

Death may not be the foe we've feared
but injury hurts, and the deaths of others

When Travel Became Gravel

Audio Recordings, Flight, Pilots, Travel / September 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When the lines got longer

When the seats got smaller
and my knees locked up
on a ninety minute flight

When Westjet couldn't find
the hat I left right on the seat

When Boeing started cutting
to make more money on poorer
planes and have computers fly them

When they locked the cockpit door
so I couldn't chat with fellow pilots
like I did on the Concorde and more

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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