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Athabasca

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Travel / tagged Climate Change, Global Warming / July 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Along the Icefields Parkway
(prettiest road in the world)
winding from Lake Louise to Jasper
lies a glacier that feeds three oceans
(Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic)

It takes a hundred years for a snowflake falling on the top to make it to the bottom

Before a snowflake that falls today finishes its journey the glacier may be gone

On the other side of the road in spring
water falls down a long face of rock
They call it the weeping wall
it may still be there

Bam!

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Climate Change, Seasons, Spring / March 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spring leapt over the boards
at 90 degrees per miles per hour
one bud one day a thousand the next

The global warming curve
is shaped like a hockey stick

But sometimes it skates backwards
and sometimes it just rags the puck

This spring - Slap Shot

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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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Base Coat

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, News, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Climate Change, Responsibility, War / September 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

People are killing the planet and each other

Every poem is written on that paper

How many coats of love and laughter
will it take to keep its color from seeping through

Read Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being this weekend. Hope it will help.

Hurricanes Starting With I

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, News / tagged Climate Change, Global Warming, Responsibility, Storms / September 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

You didn't like Ian or Ike
and hated dealing with Idalia

But as for the song of who
is warming them worse and why

Still the chorus of, Not I, Not I, Not I

Athabasca

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Travel / tagged Alberta, Climate Change, Global Warming, Mountains / May 11, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Along the Icefields Parkway
(prettiest road in the world)
winding from Lake Louise to Jasper
lies a glacier that feeds three oceans
(Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic)

It takes a hundred years for a snowflake
falling on the top to make it to the bottom

Before a snowflake that falls today
finishes its journey the glacier may be gone

On the other side of the road in spring
water falls down a long face of rock
They call it the weeping wall
it may still be there

Global Warning

Environment, Nature / tagged Climate Change, Fear / January 30, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

Image by Ylvers from Pixabay

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All That Plastic

Environment, Nature / tagged Climate Change, evolution, Pollution / September 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This whole leaving the ocean
experiment seems to be in trouble

If it wasn't for everything
we've done to it since we left
we might consider going back

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Ken Christopher on War WoundsNovember 12, 2024
So true, the barbed wire 👍🏼
Niece Karen on Quaking in the AtticOctober 23, 2024
Perfect metaphor - you captured me perfectly!
Ken Christopher on God is Getting OnOctober 22, 2024
Anger contained in love
Murray on Feels of the Farm – FlaxOctober 15, 2024
Now that's vintage knowledge Neil!!!! Hope you're feeling much better. Your poem would suggest you are!!
Ken Christopher on Fowl SupperSeptember 22, 2024
Wonderful poem Neil

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