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Waxwings

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Birds, Joy, Spring / August 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Waxwings drunk on berries and spring are partying wild in our yard Brother Icarus feeling such joy might have too neared the sun at the top of a loop like that
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Icarus Are Us

Audio Recordings, Flight / tagged Ambition, Failure, Hubris, Pride / August 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
All wings are wax that are made by man and will not to heaven take him
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How Fallen Angels

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Blame, Sin / August 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
How fallen angels often insist they were tripped and bad guys done it

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Unremember That

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Disappointment, Disillusionment, Information, Truth / August 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Tell me things I won't mind forgetting Amy Hempel - "Reasons to Live" Though nowadays it might be wise to treat all news as lies obits and dead babies still seep through And that thing you said about my perfect friend that modified the modifier and the teller too please tell me that weren't true lest I lose not one friend but two
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Harem Scarem

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Death, Grief, Insecurity, Suicide Bombing, Violence, War / August 14, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Harems and bomb belts men can't stand comparison more virgins weeping
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What is Heaven Like

Audio Recordings / tagged Afterlife, Belief, Faith, Religion, Suicide Bombing / August 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Is it a place of judgement or of none Is it a toll gate or an open door Some seem to know but don't agree Is it a place where virgins go for the pleasure of pleasuring forever beards who blew up themselves and others Some seem to know but don't agree Is it a place of judgement of or none or could it be that there's more than one and we get to go where we feel most at home Some seem to know but they don't agree
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Ahead of the Curve

Audio Recordings / tagged Conflict, Excuses, Iraq, Religion, War / August 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Rumsfeld and his posse coined a phrase that gave them a free pass to attack Iraq just in case Iraq might decide to attack They called it preemptive retaliation With prayer breakfasts every morning asking perhaps for preemptive forgiveness for all the sins they were about to commit
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Them

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Blame, Others / August 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
A four letter word that puts all others to shame who are we to blame
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Herd Mentality

Audio Recordings / tagged Dehumanization, Separation, War, Xenophobia / August 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
North of the ranch house were the hills named as a group and singly unfamed Even old Frank who lived in a house built full into one neer named the hill Cows were a herd and never named and a harem of horses was group only until one condescended to carry you and raised the relationship to naming Armies, navies and those from away were never parsed to persons In Isreal many names and affections in Gaza none How to forget what I learned on the ranch
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Rebuild

Audio Recordings, News / tagged Destruction, Devestation, Gaza, Isreal, Opportunists, Politics, Suffering / August 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
What would a developer do with the ruins of Gaza and soon to be ruins of America Pamphlets promise a paradise or is it just a flip with loaded dice
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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!

  4. Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025

    😢

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

    Wow!

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