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Ukrainian Easter

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Beauty, Destruction, Hope, Pysanky, Rebirth, Ukraine, War / April 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Easter Eggs of Ukraine
are beautiful beyond imagining
and were not meant to be scrambled

Wishing peace and hope to those celebrating Easter today and Orthodox Easter next Sunday

Kaleidoscope

Audio Recordings / tagged Beauty, Perspective, Vision / March 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Having enough
vision in my left eye
to see colour and light
I'll install a kaleidoscope
and cover it with a pink patch

Then when shaking my head
about the world my right
and should be right is seeing
I can but lift the patch and wow

Fall of the Leaf

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Beauty / February 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After my morning gratitudes
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more

Lantana Manna

Audio Recordings, Nature, Personal Growth, Poems about Poetry / tagged Beauty, Flowers, Growth, Trees / February 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Trees and Poets
grow from the inside out

The latest lines and rings
greenest and most beautiful

Lantana – favorite flower of beloved Austin poet Patricia Fiske (1927 – 2020)

A Picture Poem

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, photography, Winter / January 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid afternoon, mid December
American Airlines from Dallas
drops into Calgary with the snow

Soft flakes fall as we rent the car
stop as we drive north into
an Ansel Adams world

Sky pillowed gray on gray
Houses and barns and bales
covered in white powder

Trees all a-bloom with hoary frost
both sides of the coal black road

For the next hour
any picture we take with color film
would still come out black and white

Until we top the overpass and see from a
horizon that was not a horizon
the rising of a Mandarin Orange moon

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Ode to Frost on the Window

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Winter / December 29, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So what if you didn’t
go south for the winter

Palm trees are lovely
and also waters green and blue

But where in all that
can you be again reminded
that we are made of crystals too — Photo credit: Author’s grandson William Bullock

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

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

Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Beauty, Grace, Magic / May 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over
her shoulder as she sketched in the woods
A word for when the pure white horse
trailing black reins came thundering
past her and a friend on a snow white day
For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I
Sheet lighting eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start at a point over your head and shower all around you
For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other
Because of all this, it is now your word too
Thank you Gloria

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Sandi Hebley on JudyJune 1, 2026
😢 Hugs!
Kimberly Heinrich on The Other WellMay 31, 2026
Neil: THANK YOU for this!! Love it!! You are the best!!!💕💕
Sandi Hebley on Timmy’s Down the WellMay 29, 2026
🤗 Love this!
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That is an amazing, precious picture! So dear.
Anonymous on WisdomMay 17, 2026
🤗 Very wise and true.

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