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That Conversation

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships, Travel / tagged Communication, Connection / December 3, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Met in a resort hotel
across the peninsula from Athens
a retired ship owner who had just returned
from speaking at a conference in Delphi
on magic in the modern world

He talked about Delphi having been a library
where people gathered knowledge
before asking the oracle for the spirit side

He said Dorsey and I had to go to Delos and why

He said sometimes you have this conversation
and held his hands about hands-width apart
and sometimes you have this conversation
with hands as far apart as a fisherman’s lie

We had that conversation

This Thanksgiving I sat with John Lee
fellow poet fellow traveler on so many trails

We had that conversation - Hope you have many too

Happy Hour

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Butterflies, Humor, Migration / November 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All the monarchs pollen-drunk
are weaving their way to Mexico
with a final teasing loop or two
taunting that I can't come too

Little do their little brains know
That American and Southwest
fly direct from Austin now
and I can be a week
of margaritas awaiting their arrival

Monarchs All A Flutter

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Butterflies, Migration / November 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I wonder what that papillon is on
Reeling from too many sips
of purple flower wine

I feel fine, I feel fine

but does anyone here know
the way to Mexico

When Is Again

Audio Recordings, News, Travel / tagged Fear, Gaza, Israel, Terrorism, War / November 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Even though we visited Israel
in times of relative peace
there was always that unquiet quiet
one tick away from the next bomb going off

Since empathy implies a shared experience
this is as close as we can get from here

No-one that we know
was foreseeing what is happening now

Those calling God may be long on hold
so I’ll just send a text PLS PIC UP YR PHONE

Budapest

Audio Recordings, Remembering, Travel / tagged Broken Promises, Hungary, Immigrants, Invasion, Occupation, Refugees, Resistance, Revolution, Russia, Soviet Union, Uprising / October 24, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This is the town of Tibor
who came to Canada
and tried to teach us soccer

These are the bullet holes
from f ifty six
when he was sixteen

Bullet holes made
by him shooting at Russians
or by Russians shooting at him

Here is the statue of Imre Nagy
standing on a bridge looking west
for the promised help that never came

Growing Younger – Greece 2000

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Humor, Philosophy, Socrates, Wisdom / October 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Standing in front of the statues of the wise
noting how very wise they were
to be born at a ripe old age
and grow younger every year

Socrates for instance
(469-399)
certainly got it right
being born at seventy
and working backwards
to that point of light

Saw Once From A Plane

Audio Recordings, Flight, Haiku, Travel / October 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A Farewell to Eric

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Aboriginal, Death, Elders, First Nations, Grief, Magic, Mysticism, Native, Shaman, South America / September 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In nineteen seventy five
In the rainforests of Venezuela
Eric lived for a year with the Yanomami

He also lived with the Hunkpapa
the little people that only the shamans see
unless you toke what the shamans toke
then you can see them too

When Eric was ready to go home
the Yanomami gathered by the river
and wailed and mourned as if he'd died

Eric says his goodbyes and tries to start his boat
Tuned up, new plugs and all, but it just won't start

He pulls and pulls while the tribesmen wail

After what seems like a very long time
the shame comes down to the boat
and asks Eric if he's sure he must leave

Eric insists again that the time has come

The shaman admits that he has placed Hunkpapas in the motor to keep him there

He pulls them out one by one
juggling them hot in his hands
and throws them steaming into the river
One pull and the engine starts

In two thousand and twelve in Austin
Eric is ready to go home again
Many wail and wish that he would stay
by he knows that it is time to leave

At times like this it helps
to have a shaman for a friend

John Hawk flies in and reads
Eric's poems to the Hunkpapas
and watches as the little people leave
It takes a few pulls, but the motor starts

Time in Texas

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You race it in Dallas
drown it in Houston
and dance with it in Austin

Any farther south
and you have to wrap it
around a siesta
A burrito with salsa
at both ends

Poetry Texas

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's a town in Texas called Poetry

Look for the water tower
about twenty miles S.E. of Dallas

Make up, if you like, what's in the water

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