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Buddha with a Toque

Audio Recordings, Nature, String Too Short To Save / tagged Winter / February 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Serenity Descends

Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After my morning gratitudes
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more

Frost Bite

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Grief, Healing, Heartbreak, Winter / January 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

In January on the Wood River
the laces got wet and then stiff
and could not be untied

Walked the wimpering long mile home
in one frozen skate and one warm boot
part of my foot and all my toes
numb and milky white

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

Too much warmth all at once
can bring the feeling rushing back
with more pain than you can stand

I have since learned
- and this is the hard part-
It is the same way with the heart

From Canada With Love

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Winter / January 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter winds of icy chill
to drive you from
the os and 1s of your screens
into the twos and more of each others arms

A Picture Poem

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, photography, Winter / January 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid afternoon, mid December
American Airlines from Dallas
drops into Calgary with the snow

Soft flakes fall as we rent the car
stop as we drive north into
an Ansel Adams world

Sky pillowed gray on gray
Houses and barns and bales
covered in white powder

Trees all a-bloom with hoary frost
both sides of the coal black road

For the next hour
any picture we take with color film
would still come out black and white

Until we top the overpass and see from a
horizon that was not a horizon
the rising of a Mandarin Orange moon

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The Sun More Shy

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Courage, New Year, Winter / December 31, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun more shy than shining
white Christmas gone and going

Another year of courage needed
stoke the fires as you are called to

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The Innocence of Armies

Audio Recordings, Nature, News / tagged Death, War, Winter / December 30, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Each snowflake is unique

You can freeze to death
ten feet from your door
in a blizzard

Every child is beautiful

This is difficult to remember
when they have gathered
into swirling armies

Ode to Frost on the Window

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Winter / December 29, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

So what if you didn’t
go south for the winter

Palm trees are lovely
and also waters green and blue

But where in all that
can you be again reminded
that we are made of crystals too — Photo credit: Author’s grandson William Bullock

View to the East

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Poems about Poetry / tagged Winter / January 13, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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

If You Don’t Know Snow

Audio Recordings, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Forgiveness, Winter / March 15, 2021 / 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 fill the hole
May your friendships softly follow

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