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To the Zoo

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships, Travel / tagged Adventure, Connection, Gratitude, Joy / June 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I went to the Zoo with you
I went to the Zoo with you

There were lions and tigers and elephants
and cotton candy too

but I went to the Zoo with you
with you, with you, with you

Practicing

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Communication, Connection, Frustration / March 1, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This morning I am practicing being a ghost
Thinking of all the people I can't quite touch
all the thirsts I can't quite quench

Waving my hands, reciting my poems
saying
see me ... see me

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay

Maynard Download

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Connection, Death, Guides, Technology / January 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Maynard and Leanne
were love and learning
writers teachers and seers

Leanne had gone on
leaving Maynard her learning
you know how it is these days
one iphone touching another

All afternoon he shared stories
some in words, some in code
one iphone touching another

Not sure about the passwords
but if you lean close to this poem

https://pathoftheheartwriting.com/guidance

Echoes

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Connection, Greatest Hits, Popularity / January 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I must go down to the sea again
- John Masefield "Sea Fever"

I must go down to the sea again
hold my ear to a conch curved shell
and listen to the surf converse

John Masefield
poet laureate thirty seven years
reading the same poem
to different seas of shining faces

Shore and shell in conversation

Click here to read “Sea Fever” by John Masefield, Poet Laureate of England from 1930 to 1967

The Presence of Absence

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Connection, Thought / January 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The leap in the line
tween the gift and the get
that feeds your brain its bread
where the poet lives though dead

The nothing-there space
between the leaves and leaves of trees
has a life of its own with every breeze
Meet you there tween the Ah and the Ha

Weathered In

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Elements, Weather, Winter / January 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Weather in the city
has a lot of walls involved

Weather in the country
is God in all his nearness

How Many Pins on the Head of an Angel

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Christmas, Connection / December 26, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty after midnight and up alone
sharing every Christmas past
with the angel of Austin present
alight on the well lit tree

Telling her of the first thin pine
strung with popcorn and candles clipped
back on the ranch before the power

Every crackle of every log
every crinkle of tissue torn
every child's first Christmas
and every parent's last
and every cousin and uncle and aunt
no longer as they say extant

Praying her to spread
her wings and wonder wide
that we may gather them all by dawn

A I Won’t Hug You

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Artificial Intelligence, Connection, Technology / December 4, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

No longer trusing
in poetry on the net
live readings again

A Well-Lived Gladys

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Connection, Gandhi, Health, Inspiration / October 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

For Dr. Gladys McGarey 1919 - 2024

Two months short
of a hundred and five
she too the upward dive

You can read about her in her books
and some good hints on living yours

At an Austin church we got to touch
a shawl Gandhi gave her doctor parents
when they ministered on Himalayan slopes

Never washed you can still grok Gandhi on it

Her son Bob has a Human Potential Center
where we had a small group dinner later
and she and me washing and drying
shoulder to shoulder at the small sink after

The ordinary dancing with the extraordinary

Celebrating the life of Dr Gladys McGarey, Mother of holistic medicine and best-selling author of The Well-Lived Life: A 103-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age, and Living Medicine

For the Music

Audio Recordings / tagged Connection, Fear, Music, War / October 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Everyone learns
the drum in the womb
so every tribe has music first
and all the first words rhyme
and guttural-down in time
as we learn of hate and crime

When making a bomb shelter list
always include an instrument in it

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

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