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Frank Gehry Designs

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Architecture, Art & Artists, Beauty / October 19, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Frank Gehry designs buildings
that float like a poem on a string

Museums surrounding art with art
Barcelona fish feeding more than bread
Disney Music Hall hitting all the right notes

Born in Toronto
most boring and exciting city in Canada
brings the sails of Lake Ontario to the world

Imagination is the Best Decorator

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists / October 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The happy birds
on Maud Lewis' windowsill
were not there till she painted them there

Thanks to the pen we get to hear
music behind Beethoven's shuttered ear

Smile to hear shut-in to describe
Emily Dickinson's muse and scribe

Perhaps in your house too
dreams and beauty beyond our view

Leonard Toujours

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / September 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Leonard looking down
Quel Mona Lisa visage
Montreal looks up

Mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal, Quebec

The Fearlessness of Thomson

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / September 3, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Being from the prairie
I have a healthy fear of forests
it is fine if they wish to tonsure a lake
but full surround is a whole other matter

I wonder if this was also true
of city pals Tom took to his home
it is hard to look nature full in the eye
while looking always over your shoulder

Which is not to say that Tom was braver
only the frightened have need of courage
for Tom there was nothing to stay his hand
and no veil of fear between love and stroke

Go to any gallery, brave deep any painting
and see if you can feel the way that he saw

Poplar Point, Rock, Sun, Tom Thomson, 1916
On display at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario as part of Tom Thomson: The Art of Authentication | July 30 – October 15, 2022

Georgian Bay Morning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Travel / tagged Art & Artists / August 1, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

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Blooming Anyway

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Art & Artists, Covid19, Separation / July 7, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stone walls do not a prison make - Richard Lovelace

Though we be apart
memory roots yet connect
and bloom in our art

Palette

Audio Recordings, Farm / tagged Art & Artists / June 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A farmer
in a playful mood might plant

a field
of purple flowering flax
beside a field
of mustard yellow mustard

Van Gogh would give
his other ear for such a sight

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Druthers

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists / March 5, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems - Wislawa Szymborska

I prefer reading her poems
to her not having written them
and almost everyone else’s too

As for my own
the lame, and the lovely
I prefer with her
and leave your vote to you

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/wisaawa-szymborska

Image by DarkmoonArt_de from Pixabay

Papa and Me

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Courage, Writing / January 31, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

How to Write Good

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Writing / January 30, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How to Write Good (for Maia, age eleven)
Granddaughter I might say
read some Ernest Hemingway
A good place to start might be
The Old Man and the Sea
Watch now how he draws arrows
pointing to an empty space
until a picture appears
If we're going to know it
you're going to have to show it
And if you want to say you're sad
Don't say you're sad -- that's bad
Try something like-
She came home after the spat
didn't even say hello to the cat
Threw herself down
and cried her way through
two
pillows
and a mattress
until the drops began to fall
on the head
of her sister in the lower bed

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