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Tuques

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Canadian History, Warmth, Winter / November 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty below
and time for tuques again
and gratitudes
for them that invented them

And the coureurs de bois
or the runners of the woods
that rocked them in the fur trade
Montreal to the Rockies and back

Or maybe from La Tuque Quebec
the only town named after a hat

What’s in a Name

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Beauty, Immigration, Italy / September 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

for Rina Ferrarelli

San Giovanni in Fiore
translates to St. John in bloom

One could ponder whether the radiance is flowers or saint or both

We know a poet from there
transplanted to America - Still in bloom

Minot

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Insects / September 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hotels and motels
once had fancy ashtrays
and their names proudly on them
hoping you might take them home
and remember and come back again

In Minot, North Dakota
the Holiday Inn had a fly swatter
with its name in plenty point font
to encourage you to leave it or take it
and remember a place so full of flies

I have wonderful memories of Minot
but every time I harken back … Swat

Stone Hammers

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged First Nations, Native Americans / September 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In my house
two stone hammers
picked from the ancient land
where Cree and Blackfoot fought and died

Beside the deep ruts of the Red River carts
showing yet through a hundred years of grass

Mounted police on the Fort Walsh trail
to stop the whisky and move the rail

Stony silent bookends now
with many more stories to tell
than the pages they hold between them

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Birds / August 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
has to look up from her art
geese may be flying

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

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A Pointillist Dream

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Seurat kind of day
Sidney, BC or Paris
a pointillist dream

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

Sailing on the Queen Mary

Audio Recordings, Travel / July 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The opulence, the opulence, the Art Deco decor
The richness of wood on every wall and stair
The length and height and ballroom beam
The lavish light of crystal chandelier

Here rich and famous of the day
were brushed against in passageway
Now Long Beach harbor final-moored
with ghosts of glint and glory at the bar

Yet all is there, save ocean swell and mal de mer

These two I bring in memory from home
a canoe on Candle Lake in a ski-boat's wake
and the back seat of dad's old car

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Candle Lake

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Birds / July 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Northern dawn
Soft haiku sky
Seven loons float by

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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!
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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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