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Invitation By Flower

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Connection, Love / June 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Little lantana growing
through old bench boards

Saying Come sit with me
and we will be flowers three

Let us smile at one another
like there will never be another

For Victor

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Aging, Dogs, Learning, Love, pets, Wisdom / May 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The only trick an old dog can learn
is how to be an old dog

The minimum of turns one has to take
before lying down for that nap

That a bark is as good as a chace
for keeping squirrels off the deck

And that after all these years
of standing up for your standing friends
you've likely earned their kneeling by you now

Dogs and Boys

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Companionship, Connection, Dogs, Love, pets / May 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Twenty thousand years
they walked the plains together

The boy did not know that
The dog did not know that

Or did they

Photo of author’s Uncle Bruce with Pepper circa 1928

Crab Apple Love

Audio Recordings, Family, Relationships / tagged Humor, Imperfection, Love, sensuality / May 22, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You'd be crabby too
if you'd been through what I've been through

Yes, you might be a little crabby too
if all your relatives looked down on you

Sweet Granny Smith with her stem in the air
pretending she's green as the unmown grass
has a worm hole or two I could tell you about

And there's no living with uncle Mac
since that damn computer came out

But enough about them, let's talk you and me
how I'm so much more than an ornamental tree

About how lovely I am, and inviting you in
your teeth in my flesh and your lips on my skin

So if you're looking for love that's true to the core
I'm telling you love, you'll be looking no more

If you're looking for love that's going to stick
I've got plenty of pectin to do that old trick

And we can be jammin' all night and all day
if you'll bring some sugar, and meet me half way

A Manx’s Tale

Audio Recordings / tagged Cats, Death, Grief, Love, Mourning, pets / April 2, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There's nothing as strong or as fragile as life
And nothing soft as a kitten's purr

And I'm awake and I'm sad and it's three in the morning
And it's Mother's Day and she doesn't even live in kittens

She and Jane would curl up together while I stayed up and wrote or worked or worried
Later I'd slip quietly into the warmth of
steady breathing and the soft blanket
of sound it rested on

In the night (not fickle but generous) she would go from bed to bed and bring to each of the children the comfort they might need
and lay down the same soft cushions for their sweet dreams

I don't know what her life was, or where it's gone or how to say thanks
and I can't sleep

It's two days now since she's been around
and the bedroom echoes
with the absence of her sound

You Can’t Say Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Attention, Connection, Love / March 22, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You can't
say love without pointing

Words are only ink and air

But did you see
that look, that touch, that there

Old Sappy Love Song

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Love / February 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Heart
carved in
a maple tree
weeps sweet in memory

Genesis A Love Story

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Love / February 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the first day God created light
on the fourth the sun and moon and stars

I see and feel the sun
court the moon and awe the arching stars

But what of the light before the light
is that the light I see in you

Valentines

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Appreciation, Communication, Love, Writing / February 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every Saint Valentine's Day
one should write a poem
to their beloved

Not just to remind them
how lovely they are
And your burning desire
to show it

But also how lucky you are
to know that you know it

Grave Robber

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Loss, Love / January 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If I believe in a place better
why would I wish to lure
them back to a lesser

And if I believe that love
is not one of those things that you can't take with you
then they have mine with them

And hopefully though I feel the urge
remember what cannot give by taking

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