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Waiting

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Change, Seasons, Transitions / November 23, 2024 / 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

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Fall

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Autumn, Seasons / November 22, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Dry winds hurry
little brown leaf-birds along
November streets

A Frosty Morning

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Choices, Decisions, Dreams, Fall, Robert Frost / November 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
two roads diverged and me taking both

In waking and in sleeping
through the thicket that lies between
if-pods on dream cycles forth and back

And so much easier as winter comes
and almost all the leaves have fallen

How Thorough Was Thoreau

Audio Recordings, Family, Poems about Poetry / tagged Food, Hermit, Poet, Recluse, Support, Walden / November 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Meditating on pond and sky
is better with donuts and pie

Delivered no doubt silently
by mom and sis each Sunday

Never Thought Of It As Solitude

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / November 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Thoreau went to Walden
to get to where we were born

There were ponds on our ranch
and sloughs aplenty and a lake

And we happy to let them be
just where and what they were

Waters neither rilled nor stilled
by the bullying of undue notice

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Prairie Wool

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Preparation, Seasons, Winter / November 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The northern days grow short
The horses are all hairing-up

The hills pull scarf and shawl
of prairie wool, alpaca soft,
round their necks and shoulders

Winter's heading for the ranch
and woe to those not ready

Jeanne-Marie Writes A New Book

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Prairie, Rain / November 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When it rains in Biggar Saskatchewan
a bigger battle begins
Grass and grain sucking straws
to the slurping point
The sun trying as always to extract
far more than its fair tithe
Muddy waters swirling down drains
of gopher and badger holes
Settling through hollows of buffalo wallows
where the buffalo no longer roam
Remainders feeding underground streams
and deep raging rivers

If I put my feet or ear to the ground
I can almost understand her last poem
Almost hear the next one

Biggar Saskatchewan’s town motto: New York is Big, but this is Biggar

Jeanne-Marie Makes Bread

Audio Recordings, Poems about Poetry, Relationships / tagged Baking, Philosophy, sensuality / November 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

She thinks about
the stillness of hummingbird
and motion at the heart of stone

The love that holds
and the love that allows

The soft wisdom of sheep
and meaning in moon and stars

Flouring her hands
she kneads the poem and the bread

Shapes them with centuries
of deep woman knowing

Leans down
and kisses the rising loaf

Wheat

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Bread, Communion, Grain, Harvest, Nourishment, Prairie / November 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What perfect voice will sing the truths of wheat?
- Frederico Lorca

Wheat half-ripe for chewing gum

Wheat for rolling waves in wind
Wheat for loaves and fishes giving

Wheat for shovelling wheat all day
and eating earned fresh from oven

Wheat for Jesus body sharing
and your bretheren in the pews

Wheat for only rain is news

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Swathing

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Harvest, Nourishment, Pride, Satisfaction, Wheat, Work / November 14, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Turning for home at dusk
he takes a moment to look back in pride
at the last perfect swath among perfect swaths

Lines straight as Protestant prayer
overlapping and gold as Brunhilda's braids
floating on firm stubble cut at perfect length
to allow the prairie winds to blow above below
and dry the kernals in the holding heads
to Number 1 Northern, best wheat in the world

Tonight once more he'll fall asleep
counting loaves of bread instead of sheep

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Anonymous on CirclesJanuary 18, 2026
Both Gloria and I were touched by your poem. Congrats. Tom and Gloria
LeoraLawrence Porter on Sacred DanceJanuary 18, 2026
Thank you, from an unknowing dancing healer! as for my liking… While I greatly, greatly appreciate your clarity of voice…
barbara joy on MessagesJanuary 16, 2026
profound
Eda Lishman on For the PoetryJanuary 7, 2026
Neil: what a daily gentlre reminder ...this broight me many memories of walking out into the open prairie searching for…
NEIL MEILI on Grocery Shopping in AustinDecember 13, 2025
Thanks Pamela, Love to see some of your haiku and you and Pamela in the new year. All blessings, Neil…

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