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Tomorrow

Audio Recordings / tagged Delight, Fantasy, Magic / June 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Farmer’s Daughter

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Childhood, Delight, Wonder / May 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

That little skipping step
the white cotton dress
the pebbles rolling down the path

The sunflowers turning
to watch her as she passes

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Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Delight, Magic, Words / December 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief magic shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over her shoulder as she sketched in the woods

A word for when the pure white horse trailing black reins came thundering past her and a friend on a Snow White day

For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I

Sheet lightning eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start in a point over your head and shower around you

For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other

Because of all this, it is now your word too

Thank you Gloria

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Why Not the Beautiful Words

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Childhood, Delight, Language, Whimsy / December 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Why don't use just the beautiful words
Why not cast out a net and bring
back only those that sing

Why would we use the English for butterfly
doesn't that sound like a dairy related event

Why use the German schmetterling
doesn't that have a schledhammer ring

Wouldn't Italian farfalla, Spanish mariposa or the Portuguese borboleta be betta

Why not the tres French papillon
does it not taste on the tongue to you
like air and nectar and dew

Why don't we save bats for hitting balls
and for insulation for our house
would it not be much more fitting
to flit with the fledermaus

Are there not a thousand languages or more
do they not all hold jewels in their core

Why not let the children choose

Are their hearts not our purest tuning forks
are they not ourselves more clear
do they not still resonate with all
they speak and feel and hear

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