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How Not To Be A Turkey On Thanksgiving Day

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Gratitude, Thanksgiving / November 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How do you get to Carnegie Hall
Practice Practice Practice

So sip each morn
and even on plentitude

And on the day of gratitude
show up less loud and crude

Thanksgiving Poem: How-to

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Autumn, Fall, Gratitude, Holiday, Thanksgiving / October 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don’t write right away, but soon.
Watch the leaves and the light fully
Connect – allow – relax – delight.
Too quick is a tourist in a selfie,
Taj Mahal untended over left shoulder.
Wait too long and the phone will ring

Write a few hundred poems before – good and bad,
so fear of the water doesn’t keep you on shore
And how about a title throwing two shadows
(as Mary Oliver encourages)
an easy one here with movement and the season

Do not say leaves look toward the sun, an object,
but towards the rising of the sun, an event
one more evocative of motion

Note the angle of the sun,
so low on the horizon that is shines upwards
into the twisting, twirling, falling leaves,
as they lift at times in slightly gusting breeze

If pirouetting is what you see, bring the ballet in

And gratitude, of course, and on what day

Bemused

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Art & Artists, Gratitude / September 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is never wise to be
at all ungrateful to your muse

Though times she picks to bring her gifts
are ones few of us would choose

She does live on a mountain in Greece
while I'm scribbling in Texas at two AM
She's bright and alert and off to work
because it's nine in the morning to her

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 8

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Gratitude, Nourishment, Pride, Relief / July 29, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Okay Now – Mostly

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Gratitude, Grief, Loss, Mourning, Sadness / June 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I think I'm okay now
when with every thought of you

Gratitude for the years
gets there before the tears

Mostly

Dove lupine in Sharon’s San Marcos garden

Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After my morning gratitudes
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more

Tears of Sugar

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Funeral, Gratitude, Grief, Joy / September 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Tears of sugar
tears of salt

So beautiful or so sad
and sometimes half and half

Like stories at a wake
- Oh how she made us laugh

The Gift Horse

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude / May 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is not so simple

If you question every action
you will find forces pull in other directions

If you look in the mouth of the horse
not all teeth will be straight
and many may have been grinding
for some time

It is more likely
that happiness will be found
by looking deep in the mouth of the adage

It is Enough

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude / January 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It is enough
that the baby smiles
even if it's only gas

It is enough
to know that God exists
though it take a lifetime
and a minute more

It is enough
that the dog loves you
at the end of a day filled
with cats

It is enough
that the rainbow
can arch your back
straight again

It is enough to watch a sunset

It is enough
that leaves fall like butterflies

It is enough
that joy exists, even when
others have it all

It is enough
that the other knee feels
fine

It is enough
that in dreams you can
still fly

Is is enough
that poetry is in the bible too

It is enough
that gifts come
in the size of gratitude

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In Our Pond

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Gratitude / June 13, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The frogs
have been singing for rain

It has rained
and the frogs are still singing

One has to listen closely
to note the shift from please to thanks

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