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Flying the Concorde

Flight, Pilots, Travel / May 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I am not immune to the desire
to wind the stem of old time back
and with as much success as most

Except when the Concorde flew the sky
and I, pilot to pilot in the cockpit stood
and watched the earth reverse for me
on a flight from London to DC

What have I done you ask
with the slice of time I stole

Saved it in a bank of cloud
above the ocean eight miles up
where I can go if I ever wish
to write a check for a smile or a kiss

Don’t Worry Mate

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Ranch Life, Travel / May 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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The Alp Leaps Up

Nature, Travel / May 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The alp leaps up
like a chamois shot

that hid behind
soft cloud and hill

and breaks us
with its broken beauty — Photo taken from train between Munich and Vienna

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A Train

Travel / May 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Munich - Salzburg - Vienna 2019

The thing about a train
is that your feet never leave the ground

Though your toes
must curl in elfin curl
from hide of cow to wheels of steel

as you travel the rails
of others trails that lead you to your own

Riding in Cars with Kinder

Travel / tagged Children / May 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Düsseldorf in spring
I share the back seat jail
with a kinder just turned one

Bindings force our faces
face to face

We laugh
at each other’s laugh
until the whole car shines

The world is indeed small
and round as two bellies quaking

Travel Makes the Colors Merge

Travel / May 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The green of here
Is not the green of home

though when I leave
the green of both
will travel with me merged

The green I am since meeting you is greener richer too

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Finding Giacometti

Travel / tagged sculpture / May 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is a high calling to be in trouble
as you travel along the road
creating good Samaritans at every trip and fall

The trick starts out by renting a car
from a small gas station/liquor store

Sketchy directions and a wrong turn
an unmanned toll booth and two tunnels
some workmen suggest the one to the right
a tunnel we thought would surface in England

Not England but where?
Industrial park on a holiday
one man working in the flowers
directions to get us a little closer

And then, what you don’t find
unless you get this lost

A town with a Giacometti university
and a statue in the circular town square
that might well have been worth
coming all the way to France to see

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Traveling Under Cautions Against

Travel / tagged Faith / April 29, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Crowded places where people with grievances real or scriptures 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

Sunday Afternoon

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Connection / April 28, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It was a Sunday afternoon
about a year ago today
I couldn’t sit, I couldn’t stand
I just knew I couldn’t stay
So I took off for Toronto
fifteen hundred miles away

Two days of boring meetings
couldn’t stand to have one more
didn’t know where I needed to be
but it wasn’t here I knew for sure
So I grabbed a train to Windsor
and Detroit which lies next door

Outside spring was springing
and calling more and more
and I’d get to see some country
that I’d never seen before

Oh, the sheep were soft upon the land
and there was magic in the day
as I sipped my rum and cola
and rhymed couplets all the way

Checked in on Wednesday
wondering what to do
maybe I could try to call
a good old friend or two
There was a man I’d met in Banff

just three weeks before
a man of love and wisdom
that I’d like to see once more
And a lady of my poems
that I’d seen just twice before
thirty minutes in an airport
and two hours on the shore

He was busy in a meeting
she answered on first try
she had booked off work
without knowing why

And when I told her
that I was in her town
she said “I’ve got a story
and I’ll be right down”

It seems that her grand dad
who had raised her as a child
had died not long ago
and the grief had drove her wild

The family all were fighting
for the pennies on his eyes
and there was no one there
to hear her heartfelt cries

So she ran from that hospital
not knowing what to do
and stood on the highest hill
alone is a sky of blue
And loudly called my name
“Please come, please, I need you”

When I asked had she made this cry
and had I come real soon
“Oh it wasn’t very long ago
just Sunday afternoon”

Jerusalem and Other Travels

Audio Recordings, Travel / April 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I wake in the night
in a prison of my making
rattling the bars of might have been
and should and should not have done

Unable to escape I pace and I wait

For Buddha to melt the illusion

Or for Jesus to open the door
with sweet forgiveness

Or God to at least send along
a minor prophet with
a file in a cake

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