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Old Train Math

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Remembering / September 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If a train leaves Moose Jaw
heading west at the speed of first memory

Engine, cars and caboose
zebra-ing by behind a snow fence
smoke billowing back over its shoulder

And another leaves, traveling east
from my writing of it now

When will they meet
at the small town of Courval
and your reading of this page

Aging Gratefully

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Discovery, Hope, Pain, Science / September 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Knees of jelly and hip of steel
bones stronger where they broke
but not more flexible

And yet, and still
quantum physics and poetry
light that bends but does not end

The walking is a little tough
the flying is going well

Aging Gracefully

Audio Recordings / September 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We have decided that
we aren't oldsheimery at all
but absent minded professors
far too caught up in Newtonian
and Russian physics,
and epigenetics
and brain scan implications in
the present political race
to remember to put
the butter back in the fridge

Amor Vincit Matter

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Science, sensuality / September 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When two lovers love
they seldom speak of Einstein

But if they did
it just might be to note

That just as light is larger
than the few bands that we see

energy is all
with some slowed enough to touch

and some fast enough for this

Robert Frost in the Multiverse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Choices, Journey, Life, Opitions / September 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads
diverged in a yellow wood

and I took the one less
and the one more traveled by

Last Day in June

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dinner at the English Bay Cafe
first day the sun had shone since May

Everyone in Vancouver
looking like they'd won the lottery

After by the water
sitting not alone on a driftwood log
missing flight after flight back to Alberta

No one knows where they go when they die
and airplanes sometimes fall out of the sky

Why hurry to leave the heaven that's here

Sagrada Familia Familiar

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Barcelona, Cathedrals, Creation, Gaudi / September 21, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When Don Quixote was an architect
he lunged with many lances at the sky

Cloud castles may have maidens in them
to rescue your soul in rescuing them

What beauty lies in madness
lies close to the skin of the seeming sane

And what magic falls with the rain in Spain

A Poem Before Holland

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Amsterdam, Netherlands / September 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I travel to Holland
on wings of a childhood story
silver skates and a finger in a dike

To lands wrestled from an angry sea
a sea that dearly wants them back
Unceasing vigilance to keep the prize
a dark line drawn across their eyes

I see windmills chop the salt wet air
art and flowers leaping up in faith
behind thin walls

Back to the little boy and the dike again
legal drugs and red lights in the rain
These are a fair and sturdy people
I like them now, and I like how

In a land where children must
so often act as men
they do not pass acts that treat
their men as children

In Preparation For Israel

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / September 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In preparation for Isael
I have the poems of Yehuda Amichai

If I read them I may need fewer maps
If I read them well I may need no maps
If I read them very well I may not need to go

Traveling Under Cautions Against

Audio Recordings, Travel / September 18, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Crowded places where people
with grievances real or scriptured
make their point with bombs and such

Draw circles of safety if you must
and trust the angels that you trust

Death may not be the foe we've feared
but injury hurts, and the deaths of others

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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!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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