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Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 7

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Crops, Drought, Rain, Thirst, Weather / August 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Stopping for water
dry eyes turn westward
reading the clouds

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 6

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Waiting, Weather / August 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waiting for the crop
rain or hail, God decides
in the pub, politics

Sleeveless in Seattle

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Coffee, Rain, Weather / February 6, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Some years Seattle
gets more rain than London

and yet
its citizens are often seen
umbrellaless on the boulevards

with nothing but caffeine
between them and the elements

Snows

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Weather, Winter / January 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is the snow
that makes Christmas of all
as might have fallen on the stable

There is the farmer's snow
Moisture is moisture don't complain

There is snow in bad company
ganged up with wind to kill you dead

There is snow when you're safe inside
and snow keeping you from getting there

And snow if flakes, no treat so sweet
resting tingly on an outstretched tongue

February

Audio Recordings, Environment, Poems about Poetry / tagged Optimism, Weather, Winter / February 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

February is the cruelest month
even if T.S. Eliot said it was April

Eliot wasn't from Saskatchewan
where February sits halfway between
winter's come and it ain't ever going to leave

It is also Valentines and Mandela free
so thinking about love will always help a lot
and remembering it's the shortest month we've got

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Weathered In

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Elements, Weather, Winter / January 4, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Weather in the city
has a lot of walls involved

Weather in the country
is God in all his nearness

Home Made Ice Cream

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Hope, Rain, Weather / July 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When I was five we lived on a ranch
still forty miles and five years
away from electric power

We only got to eat ice cream
when the hail lay deep enough on the ground
to be scooped up in the old hand mixer

Many a hot evening in August and July
five of us sat on those hard ranch steps
looking out at the Western sky

Watching the black clouds and the grey
building and rolling our way

Silently praying our Protestant Hail Marys
four for and Dad against

Wind and Rain

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Rain, sensuality, Weather, Wind / May 23, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does wind linger long in the rain
to quench its desert thirst

Or in the day shiver
and hurry to see the sunlight

At night does it eagerly
slip through open windows

To join us under echoing roof
and kiss our skins with
moistened lips

Deluge at the Austin Airport

Audio Recordings, Flight, Travel / tagged Delay, Storm, Weather / May 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waves of rain and wind crash against the windows
planes hunker tight to tarmac while planes from away stay away

Inside, the rippling masses flow from changed gate to changed gate
seeking connection with any uniform with information on connections

Every hour brings another announcement of another hour late
until the whispered ‘canceled’ appears up on the board

The Farm, The Ranch and the Sweeping Scythe

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Adversity, Beauty, Death, Hardship, Weather / November 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sunrise can be brilly bright
and all day long
everything out to get you

The horse can kick or fall
the bull has horns of steel

Every machine is grinding its teeth
in wait for a chance to bite

and every snowstorm
eager to find you
too far from the barn
and stiffen you like the manure-pile cat

The sunsets worth surviving for

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