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Fairies in the Garden

Audio Recordings / tagged Humor, Magic / June 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fairies in the garden
when the day is new

Washing their undies
in the dew

Tomorrow

Audio Recordings / tagged Delight, Fantasy, Magic / June 11, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rainbow Connection

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Magic / June 10, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rainbows do not
end but begin in pots of gold
and the dancing of little green men

Those that think
eyes are only receivers of light
have not seen the eyes that I have seen

Memories of Santa

Audio Recordings, Family, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Christmas, Loss, Magic, memories / December 25, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes the best Christmases
are found in photo albums

Remembering Santa Kent who stepped out of our snow globe this year.

A Gift in Winter

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Frost, Ice, Magic, Snow, Winter / December 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes
in the long dark of a winter night
the Swarovski fairy will pop by
and wand each tree to crystal

Run into the streets and woods
and thank her in the slant-light dawn

before
the burning envy
of the sun cancels out the spell

Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Delight, Magic, Words / December 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief magic shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over her shoulder as she sketched in the woods

A word for when the pure white horse trailing black reins came thundering past her and a friend on a Snow White day

For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I

Sheet lightning eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start in a point over your head and shower around you

For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other

Because of all this, it is now your word too

Thank you Gloria

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A Farewell to Eric

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships, Travel / tagged Aboriginal, Death, Elders, First Nations, Grief, Magic, Mysticism, Native, Shaman, South America / September 26, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In nineteen seventy five
In the rainforests of Venezuela
Eric lived for a year with the Yanomami

He also lived with the Hunkpapa
the little people that only the shamans see
unless you toke what the shamans toke
then you can see them too

When Eric was ready to go home
the Yanomami gathered by the river
and wailed and mourned as if he'd died

Eric says his goodbyes and tries to start his boat
Tuned up, new plugs and all, but it just won't start

He pulls and pulls while the tribesmen wail

After what seems like a very long time
the shame comes down to the boat
and asks Eric if he's sure he must leave

Eric insists again that the time has come

The shaman admits that he has placed Hunkpapas in the motor to keep him there

He pulls them out one by one
juggling them hot in his hands
and throws them steaming into the river
One pull and the engine starts

In two thousand and twelve in Austin
Eric is ready to go home again
Many wail and wish that he would stay
by he knows that it is time to leave

At times like this it helps
to have a shaman for a friend

John Hawk flies in and reads
Eric's poems to the Hunkpapas
and watches as the little people leave
It takes a few pulls, but the motor starts

Tomorrow

Audio Recordings / tagged Dance, Fairy Tales, Magic, Whimsy / April 23, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Somewhere
perhaps very near
the fairies are dancing tonight

If you put out a little food
they will mend your shoes
and tomorrow you can join them

Gracelets

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Beauty, Grace, Magic / May 14, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Because Gloria needed a new word
for those brief shining moments

A word for when the fox was looking over
her shoulder as she sketched in the woods
A word for when the pure white horse
trailing black reins came thundering
past her and a friend on a snow white day
For the sunsets that cover the whole sky
double rainbows when grandmothers die
and a circular rainbow that held you and I
Sheet lighting eating its tail in a circle
Northern lights that start at a point over your head and shower all around you
For the magic of weaving our bracelets when we need a reminder of magic in each of our lives and each other
Because of all this, it is now your word too
Thank you Gloria

The Hint

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Faith, Magic, Spirit, Wonder / February 7, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You don’t have
to say it out loud

But haven’t you, at least once
been touched by the unexplained

and wondered

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