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Sanctuary

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Birds, Contemplation, Peace, Reflection, Solitude / November 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hard by Mount Allison U.
in New Brunswick Canada
lies a protected marshland
where students and birds
can come for quiet reflection

There's one watching
a heron watching a heron now

Photo credit: William Bullock

Global Warning

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, News / tagged Climate Change, Fire, Flood, Natural Disasters / July 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

We animals all
knowing where there's smoke there's fear
wind from everywhere

We Are All Mostly Water

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth / tagged Effects, Hate, Love, Science / May 29, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It rains on the ocean too
and sometimes you cry in the shower

The water don't care unless you love it

and can see in each drop
the seed of the snowflake resting

Here is a link to a video showing water exposed to words of love or hate.

Ode to the Tree

Audio Recordings, Environment, Poems about Poetry / tagged Gratitude, Paper / May 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Every ode
is firstly to the tree
that gave the page to me

If there are trees in heaven
and sure there ought to be
I would not wish to spend
eternity in apology

Blue-Eyed Boy

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Childhood, Companionship, Dogs, Freedom, Play, Prairie / May 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Blue-eyed boy
blasts off from breakfast
like a quail on a rail

Collie dog leaps on board
and they’re off across the prairie
barely touching the tops of hills

Sun gives warmth or cloud gives shade
all depending on his whim
birds and rocks and swaying grass
everything living embraces him

Burrs don’t stick and thorns don’t prick
even fences, joining in the play
happily turn their barbs away

Floating along on the wings of four
not long now till they slam that door

Author, about age 4, on the Saskatchewan ranch

Walden Pond

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Spring / April 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Springtime in the center
of a Walden Pond of sound

Small frog leaps in
fish jumps

Log rolls in from bank
beaver slaps his tail

Four swans float by
wakes overlapping

Pecan drops from
an overhanging tree

Water-fly skims
wood duck cycles wingtips

Pocohantas dips a paddle
I float

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Farming Wind

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Change, Green Energy, Natural Resources, Wind Energy / March 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Once pettable hills
rows of angry hackles raise
and cows curdling graze

February

Audio Recordings, Environment, Poems about Poetry / tagged Optimism, Weather, Winter / February 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

February is the cruelest month
even if T.S. Eliot said it was April

Eliot wasn't from Saskatchewan
where February sits halfway between
winter's come and it ain't ever going to leave

It is also Valentines and Mandela free
so thinking about love will always help a lot
and remembering it's the shortest month we've got

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Away From The Buildings

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged landscape / December 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

To the north is the ranchland
a soft cloth crumpled

To the south ironed
flat and stretched tight
to the treeless shores of the legend lake

And there is a difference in the day
when you stay in the flatlands
or go up into the hills

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Prairie Wool

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Preparation, Seasons, Winter / November 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The northern days grow short
The horses are all hairing-up

The hills pull scarf and shawl
of prairie wool, alpaca soft,
round their necks and shoulders

Winter's heading for the ranch
and woe to those not ready

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Nancy Fierstien on Eyes of FriendsNovember 6, 2025
Lovin' this one, line after line!
Nancy Fierstien on Light on LeavesNovember 2, 2025
Yet another favorite of mine! How can I hold back this "THANK YOU!" ???
Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!

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