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Eyes of Friends

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / November 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While out pursuing life's dim ends
we often meet the eyes of friends

It's great to feel that magnet's pull
the hearts becoming warm and full

There may be time to stop and stare
and many years of love and care

Or maybe silent and by chance
just a brief brief moment's glance

It doesn't really matter much
the contact's made we feel the touch

Though if we ask of hows and whys
and what's the magic of those eyes

They do what mirrors can't quite do
they let you see right through to you

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Meeting Someone You’ve Known Forever

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Help, Pain, Redemption, Rescue, Set Backs, Surprise / November 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes it takes
one of you
getting hit by a truck
and there are so many kinds of trucks

And so many ways to be
scraped off the pavement
and put back together again

Another Eden If

Audio Recordings / tagged Disappointment, Loss, Mistakes, Temptation / November 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So much alike are
a snake and a worm
and apples oh so shiny

That only after the biting into
learn the garden's gone

Racy Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Eden, Fall, Play, Trees / November 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The rain picked up the leaves and ran
three-legged races cross the pan

in trois' ménage of sexy joy
each to the other two a toy

And those that fell from apple trees
picked up stick snakes to make it threes

Light on Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Fall, Seasons, Spring, Trees / November 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

From earliest spring
kaleidoscopes of green
as sun and wind turn the screen

And in fall
the most beautiful twirls of all

Somewhere near you
there will likely be a tree - Go see

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No Mas Dias de los Muertos

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Death, grandparents, Traditions / November 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Canada being that far norte
when my parents brought me home
my father's mother and mother's father
were not there to greet

No soft kiss on the brow
no candled altar or silvered frame

But the shape of the space
between the leaves
dark and light with every breeze

Halloween Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Consumerism, Consumption, Decorations, Holidays, Inflation / October 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spending more this year
on ghosts and goblins and gear
the tricks on you dear

Embracing Our Messengers

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Communication, Wisdom / October 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We are lived by powers we pretend to understand W.H. Auden

The demons and daemons are dancing

and the head of every pin thick with angels

The dead are with us and the long dead too
with messages for the world
and messages for me and you

We are all guests at Blake's
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
but do we say "I do"

Mensa Mortality Moan

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Death, Fear, Identity, Intelligence / October 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Smart enough to know
can't take cash , but what if you
can't take your IQ

Two Dead Guys Walk Into a Bar

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Friendship, Heaven, Humor, St. Peter / October 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Bill Mooney)
What if you have
to make the old saint laugh
before he agrees to open the gate

Working on a few lines just in case

Sure would be good to see
Mooney and the old gang again
and I'm pretty sure that they got in

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Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!

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