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Buddha With A Toque

Audio Recordings / tagged Buddhism, Peace, Serenity, Silence, Snow, Winter / February 1, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Serenity Descends

Winter Comforts

Audio Recordings / tagged Electrical Grid, Storms, Winter / January 31, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When lost in the snowy Alps
Saint Bernards bring you brandy

When sleeping alone
a hot water bottle is your friend

And Austinites remembering
five years after Snow-mageddon
thing with more power than the grid

have generators installed or lusted for
and go to the store before the storm

If You Don’t Know Snow

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Forgiveness, Winter / January 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If you don't know snow
forgiveness is an empty word

With dynamite he tried
to open up the drifted road

It absorbed the blow complete
and expanded back to fit the hole

May your friendships softly follow

Talking to Snow

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Winter / January 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rain can spread rumors
ice will always sass you back
snow keeps your secrets

Snow Blind

Audio Recordings, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Winter / January 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Snow of the backs of cattle

snow on the shovel lifting
snow on the sled hill squifting

snow on the ice road surfing
snow on the shed roof aching

snow in the memories binding
snow in the diamonds blinding

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

View to the East

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Beauty, Contentment, Trees, Winter / January 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reading haiku
in the limb-veined dawn
I do not long for spring

Sheets to the Wind

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Chores, Laundry, Memory, Scent, Winter / March 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Reminded by Marymae the other day

of Monday's wash in Tuesday's wind
and bending sheets to bring them in

It was just enough starch
and thirty degrees below in March

And about how fingers got cold as hell
but I think it was really about the smell

Yes that was the part she wanted to tell
it was really the freshness of that smell

Ghosts in Winter

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life / tagged Humor, Laundry, snowbirds, Winter / March 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In Saskatchewan they go south

You can tell by the empty
sheets and shirts
flapping frozen on the line

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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Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
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Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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