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A Word in the Woods

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Affection, Energy, Trust / January 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
When you in need or wild abandon throw your arms around a tree it is the tree that hugs you back But don't be so sanguine with a porcupine There are people in this world who live in joy and trust in God and being with them so do you And some so filled with static of fear that your hair stands up when near
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Core Strength

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Healing, Rejuvenation, Seasons, Trees / January 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Unshaded by leaves all winter long the old oak drinks deep of the sun
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View to the East

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Beauty, Contentment, Trees, Winter / January 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Reading haiku in the limb-veined dawn I do not long for spring
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In Dying the Dying

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Journey, Loss / January 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In dying the dying must look to the dead and hope the the years of forgetting their name will not be met by the same In dying the dying must look to the dead The living can only wave clinging from shore what you'll need is the dead with the map and the oar So call to them now send food if you can they forgave you before pray they'll do it again
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Grave Robber

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loss, Love / January 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If I believe in a place better why would I wish to lure them back to a lesser And if I believe that love is not one of those things that you can't take with you then they have mine with them And hopefully though I feel the urge remember what cannot give by taking
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They Go to Prepare a Place

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Love / January 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It may not be fatal to be loved by me but sometimes it seems to be I will not here name the names most you will find in other poems filled with yearnings of other homes
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Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Who lit my life and left true in joy and song a lie in that muses do not die
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How Lonely

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Aphrodite, Connection, Dionysus, Hera, Medusa, mythology, Zeus / January 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
How lonely must the Greeks have been to create so many gods All powerful fathers all manner of mothers Sisters, brothers, cousins for one to embrace or fear an aunt with snaky hair an uncle over fond of wine nobody wants to go to a party without a story to tell
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Never Alone

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Companionship, Literature / January 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You need never sleep alone if there's room in your bed for a book Dickinson might have had Emerson
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For the Poetry

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Flight, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Education / January 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
For the poetry I have walked long walks on large ranch with faithful dog and picked the crocus from the earth For the poetry I have comforted a mother and bowed to a father Gone to schools that taught strange things and passed them on to others Fallen in love and never out rode horses and flown planes and built buildings stick by stick
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  1. Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026

    Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria

  2. LeoraLawrence Porter on Sacred DanceJanuary 18, 2026

    Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…

  3. barbara joy on MessagesJanuary 16, 2026

    profound

  4. Eda Lishman on For the PoetryJanuary 7, 2026

    Neil: what a daily gentlre reminder ...this broight me many memories of walking out into the open prairie searching for…

  5. NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025

    Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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