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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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Pickles and Poets

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Addiction, Art & Artists, Immersion / January 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
AA members talk about how after enough time in the brine a cucumber becomes a pickle and will never be a cucumber again Maybe the same with poets after enough time in the brine of the reading and writing of rhyme where a tumbler clicks and no way back
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My Excuse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
W.S. Merwin. famous poet he and the Torah use no punctuation So now now whenever forever I do not have either neither
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Granary

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / January 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Every poem is a granary You can feed on what's there or grow another from a seed

Image by Siggy Nowak from Pixabay

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To Feel is to Understand

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Experience, Sharing, Story / January 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Don't show me a ball of twine of your conclusions without the threads that made it up Is it heavy as the world Atlas carried upon his back or light as a child's bouncing toy Show me the strings of failure pain and joy take me on your journey's track that we may roll it forth and back
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Buddha at the Bacchanalia

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Celebration, Fun, Perspective / January 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In the dream P&L threw a party and what a party it was Many a bottle bottomed and many a button unbuttoned While Buddha in a prone pose watched unjudging from the mantle More than under the bodhi tree showing he could be attachment free
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Introverts and Extroverts

Audio Recordings / tagged Contribution, Crowds, Solitude / December 31, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Those who fill their buckets at private springs Are not less welcome in the thirsty garden Than those who gather in crowds at the village pump
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Concussion Report

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Beginnings, Change, Creation, Universe / December 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Concussion Report Big bang a whack to the head Sky still seeing stars
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Looking Ahead

Audio Recordings / tagged Cautionary, Doubt, mythology / December 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a tower of salt-lick for camels and goats Orpheus looked back to see if Eurydice was three paces behind as one's woman should be and hied her back to Hades Some cautionary tales which don't say if mirrors count

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South Texas Sunday Morning

Audio Recordings / tagged Communion, Faith, Flavor, Mexican Food, Religion, Tradition / December 28, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You rise from your knees taste of tasteless wafer on your tongue And hurry off to Matt's El Rancho to scoop fiery salsa with chips of corn God and the devil must have their due
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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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