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Poetry at the Retirement Home

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Connection, Gifts / August 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every week they gather
where wisdom sometimes rhymes

One of the ladies
penned her first poem at ninety
and said it helped her rheumatism

Wrote a book at ninety five
as a gift for family and posterity
a book no-one else could have written

The Westminster in Austin Texas

Mary Oliver

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Acceptance, Art & Artists, Connection, Envy / August 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Of all the poets I admire
only one did I envy

How she could take us all on her journey
remind us of the wild beauty of our lives
and the soft animal of our bodies

It is disowned parts of us I. know
that we hold too high or low

And yet I wanted to go where she could go

This year in the merry month of May
on a trip in search of other things
a book I didn't know she'd written
in a town where I didn't know she'd lived

I hung five days like her hummingbird
on the green wheel of its wings

Her flowers were my food
her town became my town
her dunes became my dunes

Sip by sip on that Cape Cod shore
I began to envy her less
and love her more

And that pretty green stone
I was taking with me
I threw it back into the sea

On the Trampoline

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Children, Connection, imagination, Play / June 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Alura and I jump till we’re tired
decide my leg is broken in two places
and rest looking up at yellow butterflies
and squirrels playing in the twinning tree
as fall winds rock it toward a winter’s sleep

The young nurse writes prescriptions
lays on healing hands
sprays medicine from an atomizer pen
a few sharp-stick injections in the arm
and I am well again

Another Indian River memory

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay

How Is Your Fire

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aboriginal, Community, Connection, First Nations, Indigenous Peoples, Mental Health, Spirit / June 21, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In honour of National Aboriginal Day also known as National Indigenous Peoples Day

Cemeteries Not Few

Audio Recordings / tagged Connection, Death, Grave, Mourning / June 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cemeteries not few
are covered in grasses

How strange how seldom
we walk barefoot there

AI Ain’t ME

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Artificial Intelligence, Connection, Technology / April 28, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reincarnation by Cloud

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Hope, Rebirth / April 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does the rain falling on us now
remember the palmed oasis
the emerald lake of the Rockies
the laughing over small stones

Hand in hand we stand
faces upward, wet with hope

At the Olds Ramada

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Connection, Gathering, Sewing, Women / September 17, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

One more men don't get
buzzing from a quilting bee
love in every stitch

Going Back to the Store Again

Audio Recordings, Relationships, Travel / tagged Communication, Connection, Covid19 / June 22, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Water in a well cannot flow
Yi Saek, Korea 1328-1396
What I got
was more than what I bought

Human to human
something flows both ways

Like the mouths
of rivers along the Bay of Fundy

The tidal bore

The Girls Had An Edge

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Communication, Connection / May 22, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Me and my brothers and tractors and trucks and such
you can't talk to tractors and trucks
Sisters with tin strollers
had friends always happy
to see the world through their eyes

Sister Patsy (Pat now) with friend on the ranch

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