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Thanksgiving Poem: How-to

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Art & Artists, Autumn, Fall, Gratitude, Holiday, Thanksgiving / October 9, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Don’t write right away, but soon.
Watch the leaves and the light fully
Connect – allow – relax – delight.
Too quick is a tourist in a selfie,
Taj Mahal untended over left shoulder.
Wait too long and the phone will ring

Write a few hundred poems before – good and bad,
so fear of the water doesn’t keep you on shore
And how about a title throwing two shadows
(as Mary Oliver encourages)
an easy one here with movement and the season

Do not say leaves look toward the sun, an object,
but towards the rising of the sun, an event
one more evocative of motion

Note the angle of the sun,
so low on the horizon that is shines upwards
into the twisting, twirling, falling leaves,
as they lift at times in slightly gusting breeze

If pirouetting is what you see, bring the ballet in

And gratitude, of course, and on what day

Canada Geese

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Birds, Fall, Hunting / October 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The seeing geese fly freer now
across the autumn sky

No longer do they gorge
on my father's golden grain

No longer do I lie in wait
twelve gauge at the ready
to bring them in for dinner

Storm Windows on the Prairie

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Autumn, Fall / October 7, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Maples

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall, Trees / October 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about maples is sugar
Sweet is the maple to the tips of each leaf
Sweet in their shading and sweet in departing

Waiting

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall / September 16, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The stillness of fall

is more still
than the stillness of winter

It is the stillness
of waiting for winter

Image by Momentmal from Pixabay

Storm Windows on the Prairie

Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Fall, Winter / November 25, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Put them up too early
and all the air you get till spring
is three small holes under the wing

and that hot stove hopping
for the threshing crew
will have them cooking like the stew

Put them up too late
and an early blizzard dumping deep
freezes us all in our sleep

Leaflet Haiku

Haiku, Nature / tagged Austin, Autumn, Fall / October 25, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Great Circle

Nature / tagged Autumn, Childhood, Fall / October 17, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Canada Geese

Nature, Ranch Life, Uncategorized / tagged Fall / September 30, 2018 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

THE GREAT CIRCLE

Nature, String Too Short To Save, Uncategorized / tagged Autumn, Childhood, Fall, resurrection, Trees / October 19, 2017 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

THE GREAT CIRCLE

The children are piling the leaves again
ready for the next bare-limb leap
life into death and back

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