Neil Meili

Zen Cowboy Poet & Freelance Philosopher

Skip to content

Home
Contact
Neil’s Books
Poems
Kind Words
A Neil a Day Poems

Tag Archives: Love

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

They Go to Prepare a Place

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Death, Grief, Loss, Love / January 10, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may not
be fatal to be loved by me
but sometimes it seems to be

I will not here name the names
most you will find in other poems
filled with yearnings of other homes

Muses Had I Seven

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Relationships / tagged Grief, Loss, Love / January 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Who lit my life and left
true in joy and song
a lie in that muses do not die

Oh to Neruda

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Chile, Love, Patriotism, sensuality / December 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oh Pablo you rise up
from a land, long as a woman's back

And you have loved your land
as you would love a woman
and you have loved women as you loved
your land

Every rock and shoal of their coastlines
every mood of their tides

You have caressed them
with your mind and your heart
and your hands

And you have received the treasures
that must always rise up
from their endless depths
to meet such a touch

Eyes of Friends

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Connection, Friendship, Love / November 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

While out pursuing life's dim ends
we often meet the eyes of friends

It's great to feel that magnet's pull
the hearts becoming warm and full

There may be time to stop and stare
and many years of love and care

Or maybe silent and by chance
just a brief brief moment's glance

It doesn't really matter much
the contact's made we feel the touch

Though if we ask of hows and whys
and what's the magic of those eyes

They do what mirrors can't quite do
they let you see right through to you

1 Reply

Post navigation

← Older posts

Search

Neil’s Latest Book Available in Paperback and Large Print Edition though Amazon worldwide

Social

View zencowboypoet’s profile on Facebook
View @meilineil’s profile on Twitter
View neilmeili’s profile on Instagram

Want More Poetry? Sign Up Here.

Evie shafner on MagdaleneApril 6, 2026
Beautiful
Sandi Hebley on Another for the CatApril 1, 2026
🤣🤣🤣
Eda Lishman on How I Lost My Faith – In PreachersMarch 3, 2026
An epic moment for seven year olds! Wow how many lessons can you have in one incident? And a few…
Nancy Fierstien on A Tear for the RichFebruary 23, 2026
Another gem worth it's weight in gold from you, Neil Meili!
Sandi Hebley on Lonely LightFebruary 12, 2026
How sweet!

Audio Recordings
Cattle
Cowboy Poetry
Cows
Environment
Family
Farm
Flight
Haiku
Limerick
Manure
Nature
News
Nostalgia
Personal Growth
Pilots
Poems about Poetry
Ranch Life
Relationships
Remembering
String Too Short To Save
Travel
Uncategorized

Tags

Aboriginal Aging Alcohol Art Art & Artists Autumn Beauty Birds Childhood Communication Connection Covid19 Death Dogs Dreams Faith Family Fear First Nations Friendship Gratitude Grief Healing Hope Horses Humor Loss Love Mother Music Nature Perspective Poetry Prairie Psychology Ranch Life Regret Religion sensuality Solitude Spring Voice Dialogue War Winter Wisdom

©2015 Neil Meili. All Right Reserved.

Theme Designed By ThemeVan | Powered by WordPress

Loading Comments...

Write a Comment...

Email

Name

Website