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Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / May 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes an artist
has to look up from her art
geese may be flying

Inscrutable

Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / April 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reaching not reaching
the heart of the Orient
syllables too few

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

The Icon

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Fame, Fans / December 17, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bukowski and Purdy

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / December 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bukowski in his coffin, dead as hell
reaching for one last beer and almost making it - Allen Purdy

Purdy was not Canada's Bukowski
although he might have wished to be

You can't say that kind of shit
and "I'm sorry" at the same time

Dinner with Robert Bly

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / December 15, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bly orders oysters like Hafiz and Rumi
Richest food on the menu
Swallows them whole
Offers them to all who share his table

For Irving Layton

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Creativity, Expression, Identity, Music / December 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Irving Layton and his rhythmic authority

Canada is a country now
said Tom Thomson and The Group of Seven
and we don't have to paint like England

Layton's poetry says the same
although with fewer rocks and trees
and been known to swear at times
as part of the morning wake up call

Leonard Cohen learned at his knee
and we now can sing our Hallelujah

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

Lest We Regret

Audio Recordings, Family / tagged Art & Artists, God / September 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Whistler and Durer
did paintings of their mothers
something I wouldn't dare to do

If photos can capture souls
some risk paintings can as well

And I wouldn't want to wrestle with the dude how had dibs on hers

That Important

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / August 27, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it." – Richard Brautigan

If a tree falls in the forest
and no-one has written a poem for it
the rest of the forest must come down
to provide paper for the writing of it

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