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Timmy’s Down the Well

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Charity, Community, Help, Rescue / January 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Timmy’s down the well
or in the words of Lassie
Woof woof woof arf arf woof
Timmy’s down the well

Lay down your tools
set aside your quarrels
everyone come running
Timmy’s down the well

There’s nothing like
a big-bellied Biafran baby
to open hearts and wallets

Nothing like a crooked grin
to get us on the Smile Train

It’s happening again in Haiti
the smallest with the least
are calling to our largest best

Sometimes it takes a child
to raise a village

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Seeds

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Community, Inspiration / December 10, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
(or Austin International Poetry Festival) 
Birds seed lakes
flying  with fish roe
between each muddy toe

Spiking
each pond with pike
and smaller fish that pike like

The poets from England were here last year
including Jay and bearded imp John Row
carrying seeds between each muddy toe
and smaller
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The Forest

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Community, Solidarity / March 1, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
You are not alone
The forest hears the tree falling
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Small Town – Grade Seven

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Community / September 11, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
In a town of six or seven hundred you get a cross section of the country
One classmate's father's suicide 
with shotgun splattered walls
One boy my age, drowned
in an upturned truck in a muddy ditch
One with leukaemia, white as the snow
One redhead, Leslie French, as beautiful and mysterious as the language
One blonde, Shriley Long to long for
She's only interested in grade 9 boys
One bruised heart
Not yet hard enough to be broken
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Service

Relationships / tagged Community, Faith, Love / January 1, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Every small town funeral
Church ladies serving tea
and sandwiches and cake

Love
through
shaking hands
spreads in quivering waves
out across the jellied salad
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    Thanks for sharing this one, my friend. It packs a good punch, line after line. I'll be glad to give…

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    You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!

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    I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!

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