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Church Tour of Europe

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Faith / December 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Churches along the Rhine look down
in dark and somber judgement
on the towns below

In Milan the stone itself is full of light
its celebration lifting you up to God

The forefathers of all French waiters
built Notre Dame to their own glory

But I lit a candle there for Dan
and he got well

Seeds

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Community, Inspiration / December 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(or Austin International Poetry Festival)
Birds seed lakes
flying with fish roe
between each muddy toe

Spiking
each pond with pike
and smaller fish that pike like

The poets from England were here last year
including Jay and bearded imp John Row
carrying seeds between each muddy toe
and smaller

Narcissus in the West

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Perspective / November 29, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Of course the view is all about you
The loneliness of panoramic plains
The big-small making mountains
It's still a mirror even if you're looking through

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Monarchs All A Flutter

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Butterflies, Butterfly / November 15, 2022 / 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

Robert Frost in the Multiverse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Choice / November 10, 2022 / 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

Too Crowded

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Family, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Migration / November 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

My folks took some time off in the sixties from their Saskatchewan ranching and traveled down through South Texas
One day they stopped to talk to an old cowboy sittin and a wittlin on a rickety ranch porch
When he found out where they were from he said "Say - do you know a man up there by the name of Bill Prior?"
They said "Yes - he's an old bachelor who lives up past our north pasture, ,why do you ask?"
"Well" he said, "about 1928 Bill and I are out lookin for some strays when we see another rider coming over the furthest hill"

Bill says to me "It's getting too damn crowded down here, I'm heading for Canada"
"He turned his horse North and I haven't seen him since"

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Stone Hammers

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged First Nations, History, Native Americans / October 25, 2022 / 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

Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Architecture, Art & Artists, Beauty / October 19, 2022 / 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

The Cliffs of Malibu

Audio Recordings, Travel / October 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Me and Barbara
in the hot tub looking out to sea

Small pod of dolphins half a mile away

Barbara
thinks we should tell them to come closer

I opine
that with dolphins it might be better to ask

Next time we look up
they are at the cliff base looking up at us

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Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth, Travel / tagged Hope / October 17, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Halfway through our life's journey
I woke to find myself within a dark wood - Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy
Heavy of body and soul
things to do and things undone

Head down and plod of foot
the sands of Santa Monica
at the age of Dante in his dive

What's beyond the foam
five dolphins parallel in play

I walk, they pace my pace
I turn they turn with my return

Complete the mile to coax a smile
seven layers Dante upside down

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