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Birth of Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / April 17, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Haiku Poetry Day deserves a nod to the master – Matsuo Basho

Basho oh Basho
frog’s leap kissing water
wakens the prince

Prairie Chicken

Audio Recordings, Cowboy Poetry, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Survival / April 5, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I came up through the valley where the homesteaders had tried to make a go of it for a few years, past the tin cans and other evidence of their short stay trying to rust itself back into the ground. Up over the crest of the hill where the Indians had lived for centuries with no more evidence than the weathered rocks of tepee rings

It was spring and I stumbled upon what they may have seen for
centuries, the mating ceremony of about twenty five or thirty grouse. They didn’t see or hear me and I stopped about ten yards away and watched (although my mother might not have thought it proper)

The hens ran around, heads down and tails up in unbashful invitation while the cocks puffed up the air bags in their chests and drummed their challenge

They looked handsome and brave in their posturing and beckoning and their readiness for reckoning and the fights were on, straight on and straight up with spurs and feathers flying

It was vicious but pure
Not a cockfight for the amusement of the bloody-minded, but a way to see that only the strongest would sire the little broods that would have to survive the hawks, and the snakes, and the weather; and all the dangers of a land where it takes a great deal of courage
– just to be a chicken

Grackle Haiku

Haiku, Nature / March 30, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Grackles in Austin
crows that could not make the choir
gather in protest

The Forest

Nature, Relationships, String Too Short To Save / tagged empathy / March 27, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

you are not alone the forest hears the tree falling

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Tis Folly in Springtime to be Wise

Nature / tagged Spring / March 26, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Crocus

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / March 23, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Loud crows and bright robins
promise an early spring

But they are of the sky
and can be easily fooled

Only the crocus
knows

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First Day of Spring 2019

Nature, Poems about Poetry / March 22, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poet in the car double tasking
get to the meeting on time, and notice

A woman walking, neither slow or fast
past greening trees and redbuds blooming

Earbuds in
phone somewhere in loose clothing
hands free to gesture a description

Folly maybe, but doubtful more or less
than this attempt to describe it to you now

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Spring Hopes Eternal

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Spring / March 20, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Happy Spring Everyone!

Spring hopes eternal
The meadowlark’s song
Lifts tears from the dew

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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Waxwings

Nature / tagged Austin / March 13, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waxwings
drunk on berries and spring
are partying wild in our yard

Brother Icarus feeling such joy
might have too neared the sun
at the top of a loop like that

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