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With Crayons

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Childhood, Creativity, Joy / January 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A child with crayons
multi coloured fountain
bathe in it today

Children with crayons
multi coloured fountains
swim with them today

Nourishment

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Art, Simplicity, Zen / December 6, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This bowl is the handiwork of Stan Irvin, master potter, Rockport Texas www.stanirvin.com

A Sandpainting Dream

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Art, Beauty, Dreams / December 4, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A sandpainting dream
beautiful intricate holy
then all rubbed away

First Art Project

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Art, Father / January 26, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Henry Moore

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cowboy Poetry, Cows, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Art, sculpture / December 8, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Henry Moore was a smart old cowboy
a smart old cowboy was he

Just as sly as a fox
be bought twenty-foot salt blocks
and set them out in West Texas in winter

Where a thousand strong tongues
changed those basic hard foods
into a bunch of reclining nudes

There are times when it bothers
my conscience to see
them hangin’ around London,
New York, and D.C.

Then I remember old Hank is one of the boys
just suckerin’ some dudes with these toys

So I decide not to chip off the bronze

Winner at the Great Salt Lick Contest, Baker City Oregon
https://whitdeschner.com/salt-lick-gallery/

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For Iudita

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Art, Healing / July 9, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Artists without hands
hold the brush with their feet

Without hands or feet
hold the brush in their teeth

As for me and my friend
all that remains is the navel

And small marks
in the center of the canvas

Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

Painting the Prairie

Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Art / December 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No abstract art
in the Old Farmer’s Home

Survival needs order
Home Sweet Home
painfully into a sampler stitched

Only the storms
got to color outside of the lines
someone had to rope the house to the barn

Georgia O’Keeffe’s New Mexico

Nature, Travel / tagged Art / November 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In just this light
in about this place

The cliffs are brighter
because she painted them

Poet All Stars

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art, Baseball / October 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The odds are overwhelming

Every time we play the game
we find ourselves on a level field
with the all time all world all star team

Homer, Whitman, Rumi and Omar Khayyam
Wordsworth, Shakespeare (or whoever wrote his stuff)

It’s like always batting against Nolan Ryan on his best day
Like trying to strike out Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams
Babe Ruth (without a hangover) and Reggie Jackson in October

Great poets never tire or retire, they just die
and still play with their best stuff

Soccer players today don’t have to play Pelé every day
But with translations and free agents
we write up against Neruda, Viello and Paz

Or heads up against Leo Tolstoy and Anna Ackmanova
with an East German judge

But we play

First day of the World Series today!

Sagrada Familia

Poems about Poetry, Uncategorized / tagged Art, Barcelona / December 3, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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