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John and Mary

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Death, Love, Mourning / September 28, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

John Berry writes a poem
for his dear departed Mary
and reads it at all the open mics

It is a lovely poem
about parallel universes
and all the other ways
they might have met
or never met at all

He tells me it changes
every time he reads it

which makes sense
since it is well known
that you can never step
in the same poem twice

I hear it is also true of rivers

Teacher (in defence of schoolboy crushes)

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Relationships / tagged Education, Love, School / September 10, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Lucky Reed

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Love, Music, Rumi, Valentine / February 19, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who is luckiest in the whole orchestra? The Reed.
Its mouth touches your lips to learn music. - Rumi

And who most fortunate
in this pit of who plays who
but me to learn love from you

A weather-delayed Valentine

Image by shonamcq from Pixabay

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Of Bears and Love

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Dreams, Fear, Love / September 5, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You could draw a hundred mile circle
around our Saskatchewan ranch
and not find a bear anywhere

And yet, there was always a bear

Chasing me
chasing me through my dreams
until I fell, always fell, into a well
and awoke still falling

They say, in falling dreams
you die if you hit bottom before waking

That was when I was four
I don’t dream that dream anymore

Yet when I find myself falling in love
tumbling down and down into love
that old bear is still there

And the fear to let go and hit bottom

Image by ArtTower from Pixabay

The Good Guys

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Friendship, Love, True Strength / July 27, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The good guys
are not the guys
who shoot the bad guys

The good guys
and plenty there are, but never too many

Are the ones
that gently shake the sun awake

Help it shine all day
and tuck it in with a forehead kiss

Happy 80th Birthday Larry!

A Valentines Poem with Thorns

Personal Growth, Relationships / tagged Love / February 14, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The beauty of a rose always
outweighs the pain
of the thorn

In this same spirit I would pray
that Valens be forgiven
their tines

Only when we bleed can we see
what lives within
the heart

Image by Capri23auto from Pixabay

Service

Relationships / tagged Community, Faith, Love / January 1, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every small town funeral
Church ladies serving tea
and sandwiches and cake

Love
through
shaking hands
spreads in quivering waves
out across the jellied salad

Magdalene

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Jesus, Love / December 1, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mary Magdalene lay down
with the sons of men

And knew them as sons of God

There was no sin in Magdalene
for she saw no sin in them

Dearest of all to the carpenter’s son
was the one who could see him most clear

For there was no sin in Magdalene
and she saw no sin in him

Mom, Happy Birthday

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Relationships, Remembering / tagged Love, Mother / October 3, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh we would circle
rattling tin-wheeled trucks and trikes
and drive her crying to her bed

Gather soot enough from here and there
to keep her forever scrubbing
at our souls and skins

And worry her near to death
while she stayed up to worry us alive
from many a snow and beer-filled drive

I know she does it to this day
and I’m afraid anything else I’d say
would all be mush and love
and angels watching from above
and yet still, I think I will

Thinking of my Mom today, on what would have been her 102nd birthday.

Valentines

Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Love, Valentine's Day / February 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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