Neil M. Noble
Poet · Speaker · Author
“I hope my poems will make you think about your own experiences. Who you are is far more important than who you were.”Learn About Neil
“Who you are is far more important than who you were.”
— Neil M. Noble
About Neil
A Life Lived
Fully in Verse.
Neil M. Noble is an entertaining, articulate, dynamic speaker with an incisive, outspoken, and critically analytical intellect and a wonderful sense of humor.
He witnessed Martin Luther King Jr. deliver “I Have A Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 — an experience that lit the spark for his very first poem: “A Better Man.”
His debut collection spans more than fifty years of thought, emotion, and social conscience.
The Collection
Moods of a Lake
and Selected Poems · Neil M. Noble
A debut collection of 45 original poems spanning more than fifty years of thought, emotion, history, and wonder — from the Lincoln Memorial to the still lake.
A deeply personal selection reflecting memory, identity, history, and human experience.
Poems written across decades, capturing changing times, personal growth, and enduring questions.
. Inspired by witnessing Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
Featured Poem
The lake does not remember yesterday’s storm —
it only knows this morning’s light,
the heron’s step,
perfectly still surface.
— Neil M. Noble · Moods of a Lake
Events & Speaking
Neil Noble
Speaks.
An entertaining, articulate, critically analytical voice — with humor that disarms and wisdom that endures.
“Neil Noble writes the way a lake looks at dawn — with total clarity, and depths you keep discovering long after you think you’ve understood it.”
— Praise for Moods of a Lake
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Still Water.
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