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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

Windmill Farms

Environment / September 19, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How many will it take to keep this thing in the air

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Sometimes a Sky

Environment, Nature, String Too Short To Save / July 2, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sometimes a Sky
Can make you cry
of beauty here and beauty gone
and beauty going on

Eagle on the Moon

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Aboriginal, First Nations, Healing, Reconcilliation / June 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When the Eagle lands on the moon
the Indian will come back
into his power

When the mother is in pain
the children who never forgot
will remind

They will have the medicine
to heal her wounds
They will sit with her while
strength returns

And the children who forgot
will remember

and bring flowers

Black Hills of Dakota

Audio Recordings, Environment / tagged Betrayal, First Nations / June 8, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The red man mines his life for irony
while the white man tears the earth for iron

But treaties protect the sacred stones
as long as rivers flow and grass grow
Paper covers rock
in the Black Hills of Dakota

Gold in the Black Hills, end of treaty
Scissors cut paper
in the Black Hills of Dakota

But sacred stones outlive them all
Rock breaks scissors
in the Black Hills of Dakota

Athabasca

Environment, Nature / May 4, 2019 / 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

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April in Austin

Audio Recordings, Environment, Haiku, Nature, Nostalgia, Remembering / tagged Laurel / April 23, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After the rain
mountain laurel become
lilacs of childhood

The Old Blue Planet / Blue Roan

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Environment / April 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Happy Earth Day

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Black vs White

Environment, Nature / tagged Birds / March 18, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Complainers of the tyranny of snow
call back the raven and the crow
Magpie too wise to choose sides
holds both their coats

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From Canada with Love

Environment, Nature / tagged Cold Front, Winter / December 26, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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