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Halloweens in Dreams

Audio Recordings / tagged Childhood, Fear, Halloween, Horror, Stories / October 31, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Let's have a party this year
after all the trick-or-treaters
have gone home to rot their teeth
and look like this year's pumpkins

We'll sit around the light
of the candles last flickerings
and share scariest childhood dreams

I'll bring the big brown bear
that chased me every night
to the mouth of an open well
where I fell all the way to waking

And you can try to top or bottom that
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With Ghosts

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry / tagged Humor, Loneliness, Sharing, Stories / September 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
If I was ever alone, alone
I'd go hunting for a house with ghosts

They tend to derpress the real estate prices
and add little or nothing to grocery expenses

I'm always happy to hear anyone's stories
and they must have some doozies to share

They will extend the same courtesy to me
listening to my poetry endlessly and patiently
and groaning like you did at the groanier ones
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For Joe

Audio Recordings, Remembering / tagged Connections, Death, Stories / July 24, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
We are still a world of stories,
symbols, dreams and music in the night - Anonymous

For Joe
who never met a listener he didn't like

For Joe 
who has gone today 
from teller to subject of many stories

Though no one will tell them half so well

Family reunion wrapped up. Missing Joe telling fish stories in heaven

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40 Below is 40 Below

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Environment, Farm, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Climate Change, Connection, Stories, Temperature, Winter / January 25, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Global warming comes in fits and starts
The thermometer 
still bangs away at the bottom sometimes

But everything is mostly easier these days
The Americans
have the taken the U out of fourty
and I take the I out whenever I can

Go down to Texas where 
if bullshit was white they’d be able to ski
and tell tall tales of my youth that are truth

Of breaking ice for cattle at 50 below
of shaving a beard too early one year
and beard-shaped frozen blisters rising

They listen and smile
and welcome me in like some long lost kin

40º below zero is where the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales meet.

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DIARY

String Too Short To Save / tagged Loneliness, Stories / February 12, 2016 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

DIARY

If I’d had a diary
I could have called it Dear

and told it all the stories
that no-one cared to hear

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  1. Nancy Fierstien on Hard to Get War Poems to RhymeJune 3, 2025

    Thanks for sharing this one, my friend. It packs a good punch, line after line. I'll be glad to give…

  2. Christie flaman on Going ProMay 17, 2025

    Old cowboy saying: Never a horse that couldn’t be rode, never a cowboy that couldn’t be thrown Thank you for…

  3. Ken Christopher on Going ProMay 16, 2025

    That’s pretty funny, and fun to read

  4. Nancy Fierstien on Spring Came InMay 12, 2025

    You've certainly captured these crazy times with finesse and grace, my Friend!

  5. Nancy Fierstien on Remembering WhenMay 8, 2025

    I'm betting "slow motion" was never your style!

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