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Frost Bite

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Grief, Healing, Heartbreak, Winter / January 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

In January on the Wood River
the laces got wet and then stiff
and could not be untied

Walked the wimpering long mile home
in one frozen skate and one warm boot
part of my foot and all my toes
numb and milky white

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

Too much warmth all at once
can bring the feeling rushing back
with more pain than you can stand

I have since learned
- and this is the hard part-
It is the same way with the heart

From Canada With Love

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Winter / January 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter winds of icy chill
to drive you from
the os and 1s of your screens
into the twos and more of each others arms

Cold

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Poems about Poetry / January 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Forty below in Celsius
is forty below in Fahrenheit

Suffering is often involved

In Canada they make jokes
In Russia they make poems

At these temperatures
the blood from a Russian poet
freezes on the way to the ground

They break off the icicle
and Hara-kiri it into the next stanza

The Crow

Audio Recordings / tagged Death, Hunting / January 17, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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With Crayons

Audio Recordings / tagged Art, Childhood, Creativity, Joy / January 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A child with crayons
multi coloured fountain
bathe in it today

Children with crayons
multi coloured fountains
swim with them today

Après le Déluge

Audio Recordings / tagged Art & Artists, Genius / January 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I hesitate, I do not paint.
When I paint, I do not hesitate.
- Jean-Paul Riopelle

When you paint or make love without thought
all your being comes through
Don't you sometimes in the morning wish
that you had it on a canvas to keep

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed Canadian artist Jean-Paul Riopelle
Click to discover more about his life and the festivities planned to honour his work

Sparrows Fall and Winter

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Depression, Hope, Nurturing, Sadness / January 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On days dark and gray
when feeling little like God
one can feed sparrows

A Picture Poem

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, photography, Winter / January 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid afternoon, mid December
American Airlines from Dallas
drops into Calgary with the snow

Soft flakes fall as we rent the car
stop as we drive north into
an Ansel Adams world

Sky pillowed gray on gray
Houses and barns and bales
covered in white powder

Trees all a-bloom with hoary frost
both sides of the coal black road

For the next hour
any picture we take with color film
would still come out black and white

Until we top the overpass and see from a
horizon that was not a horizon
the rising of a Mandarin Orange moon

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Breakfast at the Chateau Lake Louise

Audio Recordings, Travel / January 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Oregon in Winter

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature, Travel / January 10, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The big plan slows, mists rise to meet it
droplets begin to play along the windows
My body, mostly water
falling through clouds, mostly water

I have been traveling some

The water in me comes from the limestone caverns of Austin
the rivers of Upstate New York, and
million year old glaciers in the Rockies of Alberta

The clouds have been around the world
rising and falling as river, air and sea

Quiet now, as I am
I can feel them meeting again
hear them, telling stories

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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
Nancy Fierstien on TroubledMarch 18, 2025
Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
Ken Christopher on Negative Space in New York CityMarch 17, 2025
Prairie boy in NYC
Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025
I love this poem make more like it
Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025
Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

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