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Aunt Eileen

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Connections, Death, Grief / July 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The death of my aunt
came when I had been at the sea
and my pores were open

She entered quickly

Dragging shadows of other deaths
aunts, uncles, father, friends

All loud with the clanking
of the chains that still bind

Grandfather’s Pipe

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia / tagged Connections, Remembrance / June 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Long after he had died
I used to smoke my grandfather's pipe

Not really one of his old pipes
but a knobby meerschaum that I bought
probably because it reminded me of him
the sweetness of his tobacco and his being

At least it reminds me of them now
Or was it him smoking it and me

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On the Trampoline

Audio Recordings / tagged Children, Connections, Fun, Healing / May 9, 2026 / 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

Earning the Knowing Nod

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Community, Connections, Experience, Recognition / November 25, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You have been to the same school
sat at the same desk with a tack on the seat
and a ruler
with a ruler rapping your knuckles raw

You have been equally
but differently broken and healed by love

You meet across a room or in a grocery or airplane aisle

They nod, you nod, you both smile

What Time

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Aging, Connections / August 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do" - Gertrude Stein

Can a photograph stop time

Do hours spent fishing
count or not count in length of life

Can east-west Concorde add
or harps in heaven be heard
without space between the notes

How long can a poem
write itself before it mentions it to me

Memory Lane Jogging

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Connections, Experience, Sharing, Story / August 5, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There are things I remember I forgot
like the music of my father's swearing
when a heavy hammer had hit his thumb

And like the words that my mother said
when she called us all in to go to bed

There are others another layer down
that digging alone I would never find
that someone else has to bring to mind

So I listen to stories by family and friend
till strings pop up to pull with a knot at the end

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Your Face By Lightning

Audio Recordings / tagged Connections, Memory / August 1, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Candlelight is soft and lasting
if only as long as the wax

Lightning lit it lasts forever

For Joe

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Connections, Death, Stories / July 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We are still a world of stories,
symbols, dreams and music in the night - Anonymous

For Joe
who never met a listener he didn't like

For Joe
who has gone today
from teller to subject of many stories

Though no one will tell them half so well

Family reunion wrapped up. Missing Joe telling fish stories in heaven

Train to Toronto

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Bilingual, Connections, English, French, Ontario / April 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Bi-jovial porter
ties two cultures
with language of laughter

Mosaics

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Connections, Design, Greece / September 16, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On Delos a floor caught our eye
with an Escher-like mosaic pattern

Optical illusions of rectangles in rows
still bright after thirty centuries

Next day in a New York airport
we take our seats in the lounge
fabric covering the chairs
in exact same pattern

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Sandi Hebley on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
Wow!
JM on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
This one really hit home Thank you
Judy Migel on TearsJuly 20, 2026
Dorsey is right. It is even more beautiful to hear the words in your voice and all the emotion in…
Eda Lishman on Lost at SeaJuly 16, 2026
Oh, Neil: This reflection sure hits the times we are a-living. Each day and night those of us who are…
Sandi Hebley on Eagle Bone WhistleJuly 6, 2026
Beautiful!!

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