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Sub Morning

Uncategorized / tagged Dreams / June 10, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
I fool with the hatch of my dream submarine  time for lists and lights and surface flights or time for one more dive
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The Truth About Lies

Uncategorized / tagged Fake News, Psychology, Vulnerability / June 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Every lie is true
even if that truth is only
why the liar

even beyond 
the depth of drilling
was compelled to tell it
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Still Life with Fear

Uncategorized / tagged Limits / June 4, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
On tripod firm
  the camera rests
with open shutter 
  waiting

No steps are taken 
  or mistaken
No wounds opened 
  or reopened
No dice rolled 
  no chances taken

Snap
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150 Shades

Uncategorized / June 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
A hundred and fifty shades
of County Grey on Georgian Bay

There’s a dog now by the dock

Like other dogs
she does not see colors well

Unlike other dogs
she lives where beauty has no need
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Shooting a Raven in Golf

Uncategorized / May 29, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Never mind your birdies and eagles and such
what do you call a perfect drive 
on the first at Banff Springs
that a big black bird beaks up and swifts away 

He might drop it in the hole flying by
or you mighta had a rifle in your bag that day

the scoring would, or should, come out the same
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Mother’s Day

Uncategorized / May 12, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Before Hallmark got ahold of it

Mother’s day was not
the second Sunday in May

Less commerce
but more meaning by far

in spring’s first crocus
in a jelly jar
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Light

Uncategorized / May 3, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
The thing about light 
is that it never gets tired

Three million years at the speed of itself
from that star to here
without a slow day or a stop to complain

On the days that I remember
things move pretty well as well
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Impossible Things

Uncategorized / May 2, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
  The queen
 had believed, when young
 as many as six before breakfast
The trick dear Alice
though you weren’t told
is doing it when you’re old

There's one now...
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Ash Monday

Uncategorized / tagged Notre Dame / April 16, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Such a tragedy to see so much beauty and history lost in the fire at Notre Dame. Our hearts go out to the people of France and to everyone who has had the opportunity to stand in this magnificent cathedral and feel the magic of this place.

Nothing is 
Permanent

Everything is
immortal

I lit a candle 
there for Dan

And he 
got well
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As Many Tears

Uncategorized / April 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
As many tears
washed
into as many rivers 
how could the sea be anything but salt
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