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Eyes of Friends

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / November 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While out pursuing life's dim ends
we often meet the eyes of friends

It's great to feel that magnet's pull
the hearts becoming warm and full

There may be time to stop and stare
and many years of love and care

Or maybe silent and by chance
just a brief brief moment's glance

It doesn't really matter much
the contact's made we feel the touch

Though if we ask of hows and whys
and what's the magic of those eyes

They do what mirrors can't quite do
they let you see right through to you

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Meeting Someone You’ve Known Forever

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Help, Pain, Redemption, Rescue, Set Backs, Surprise / November 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes it takes
one of you
getting hit by a truck
and there are so many kinds of trucks

And so many ways to be
scraped off the pavement
and put back together again

Church Organ as MRI Machine

Audio Recordings / tagged Balance, Connection, Faith, Healing / October 26, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

All week
long our protons
pulled this way and that
by the magnets of the world

Sitting soft
on a hard pew
almost any Sunday
the first chord of a hymn
snaps them back in line again

A Friendly Face

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Healing, Love / September 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Image by Couleur from Pixabay

Fishing with Father

Audio Recordings, Family, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Connection / July 30, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fishing with father
you might catch his attention
deepest fish in lake

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

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Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!

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