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Magdalene

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Easter, Faith, resurrection / April 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is storied that Mary Magdalene was the first person Jesus appeared to after his resurrection.

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Poets in Springtime

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Easter, Hope, Rebirth / April 5, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not the job of the poet
to speak of spring in the springtime

The task is to gather
the cool winds of April
to freshen your face in July

And all through the fallings of fall
and all through the dyings of winter

And all through the long days of Lent
all through the pain of the Friday
reminding us always of Sunday

Easter Saturday

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Easter, Jesus, Miracles, Prophecy, resurrection / April 4, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The impossible has happened
(silence)
The impossible is about to happen

The Reds of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Easter, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, Spring / April 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A radiance of cardinals
an inebriation of winecups

Indian paintbrush
in a field of bluebonnets

Easter running down his ribs

The First Supper

Audio Recordings / tagged Choice, Christ, Christianity, Divinity, Easter, Faith, Jesus, Life, Sacrifice / April 20, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As above so below
In a life between lives

I sit at a table of light
Set like Da Vinci's Last Supper

A table of light lined with people of light

The one in the center the brightest of light
Takes a knife all of light and cuts and arm all of light

The slice of his flesh drips red with his blood
(the only color in the picture of light)

To each at this table he offers

The gift of his flesh to the people of light
(the only color in this picture of light)

One by one they have a choice
not a last supper, but a first

By accepting the gift of hs flesh
(the only color in the picture of light)

They come to this earth
their own gifts to give

Taking a Load Off

Audio Recordings / tagged Easter, Sacrifice / March 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What if someone had died for our innocence
and they didn't have to do it again and again
and we didn't have to wear a gallows round our neck

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The Reds of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Celebration, Christ, Easter, Flowers, Rebirth, Spring, Wildflowers / April 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A radiance of cardinals
an inebriation of winecups

Indian paintbrush
in a field of bluebonnets

Easter running down his ribs

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The First Supper

Audio Recordings / tagged Choice, Easter, Jesus, Passover, Rebirth, Sacrifice, Spirituality / April 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

As above so below
In a life between lives

I sit at a table of light
Set like Da Vinci’s last supper

A table of light lined with people of light

The one in the center the brightest of light
Takes a knife all of light and cuts an arm all of light

The slice of his flesh drips red with his blood
(the only color in the picture of light)

To each at this table he offers

The gift of his flesh to the people of light
(the only color in the picture of light)

One by one they have a choice
not a last supper, but a first

By accepting the gift of his flesh
(the only color in the picture of light)

They come to this Earth
their own gifts to give

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Poets in Springtime

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Easter, Hope / April 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not the job of the poet
to speak of spring in the springtime

The task is to gather
the cool winds of April
to freshen your face in July

And all through the fallings of fall
and all through the dying of winter

And all through the long days of lent
all through the pain of the Friday
reminding us always of Sunday

The Bells of Le Crotoy

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Easter / April 3, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In the little village by the Baie
bells still wake you every day
And since not all the churches agree
we wait white each has its pretty say
then snuggle back for a little nap
because a bel is just a bell
and we're on holiday
If we had really listened
we might have heard them say
We are the bells Jeanne d'Arc heard
breaking over walls of prison stone
the morning of her walk to Rouen
and then never heard again
We are the bells Jules Verne heard
rattling rough shuttered windows
get up lazy writer and grasp for that pen
you have leagues to write 'fore you rest again
We are the bells that the fisherman heard
on the mornings behind their names
on the monument to men lost at sea
heard last before going to sea

Thinking of previous travels and the tradition of the bells in France falling silent prior to Easter. https://www.urbansider.com/easter-in-france/

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