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The Spread

Audio Recordings / tagged Cost of Living, Fear, Income, Inflation, Struggle, Survival / June 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
"Two hours of pushing broom buys and eight-by-twelve four-bit room" - Roger Miller "King of the Road" Have you noticed since whenever it was you started out That the gap between having nothing and enough to eat and a safe place to sleep has been steadily growing year by year And even them that covered the spread today aren't sure how long it's going to stay that way or build fences high enough to keep that fear away

“King of the Road” by Roger Miller

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Pilgrims

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Alcohol, Art & Artists, Drugs, Hope, Journeys, Music / June 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
"Going' up was worth the comin' down" - Kris Kristofferson - "The Pilgrim" There's Kris again the poet and the picker partly truth and partly fiction signing that old song agian trying to convince both him and me And sometimes, like me, like as not he thought it wisdom, sometimes rot But I'll keep listening anyway it's getting me through another day

Click to Listen to Kris sing “The Pilgrim”

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Hard to Get War Poems to Rhyme

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Loss, War / June 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
"No more wars will be won" - Kris Kristofferson "Under the Gun" There is a strage beauty in the camaraderie and how else woould the farm boys see Paree But the rhyme that comes up every time is crime

Kris Kristofferson “Under the Gun”

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The Sadness of Flags

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Death, Regret, War / June 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Should not all flags fly half-mast always to decry deaths that they have caused
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Beer with Men Who Will Never Be Boys Again

Audio Recordings / tagged Conflict, Destruction, Loss of Innocence, Trauma, War / June 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When the war was over youth was over - Yevgeny Yevtushenko You can go to the dance as a boy and come back as a boy It doesn't work that way with war whatever their age they're old men now
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Boot Camp

Audio Recordings / tagged Identity, Military, Power, War / May 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
New soldiers get a haircut No-one wants a bunch of Samsons in boot camp Later it may grow back It will not be theirs
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The Innocence of Armies

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Military, War / May 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Each snowflake is unique You can freeze to death ten feet from your door in a blizzard Every child is beautiful This is difficult to remember when they have gathered into swirling armies
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We Are All Mostly Water

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth / tagged Effects, Hate, Love, Science / May 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It rains on the ocean too and sometimes you cry in the shower The water don't care unless you love it and can see in each drop the seed of the snowflake resting

Here is a link to a video showing water exposed to words of love or hate.

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Sometimes on a Foggy Day

Audio Recordings, Haiku / May 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Foggy morning me twixt the risk of getting lost and the desire to
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Sleeping with Alden

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Alden Nowlan, reading / May 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Being selective in who you take to bed is always good advice but dead poets will sleep with anyone And even if you catch something that won't wash off wonder drugs will not be needed, except the drug of wonder
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  1. Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025

    Indeed!

  2. Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025

    Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!

  3. Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025

    Lovely!

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    😢

  5. Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025

    Wow!

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