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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

Racy Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Eden, Fall, Play, Trees / November 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The rain picked up the leaves and ran
three-legged races cross the pan

in trois' ménage of sexy joy
each to the other two a toy

And those that fell from apple trees
picked up stick snakes to make it threes

Light on Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Fall, Seasons, Spring, Trees / November 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

From earliest spring
kaleidoscopes of green
as sun and wind turn the screen

And in fall
the most beautiful twirls of all

Somewhere near you
there will likely be a tree - Go see

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Poet Trees in Fall

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Communication / October 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Irving Layton)

Branches naked in the wind
pointing to their works below
molding their way into the grave

Rustlin’ Ain’t All About Cows

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall, Trees / October 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Down by the Blanco
as the fall dances start

Sycamore trees in the Texas breeze
rustle their skirts round their knobbly knees

Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

Full Moon at Weaning Time

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / October 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cows, calves and coyotes
full throat under moon all night
Nobody sleeping at the ranch

Prompt credit: Wally Meili

Corn Moon

Audio Recordings, Nature / October 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The corn moon is a pumpkin this year
one veggie as nourishing as another

What have you sowed for harvest now
what will you sow for next year's moon

Caught You Looking

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Buddhism, Meditation / September 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buddha in garden
practicing detachment from
beauty illusion

Show-Off

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Rainbows / September 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Nature
rainbowed and raw
in tooth and claw and awe

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