Haiku – Neil Meili

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Combining Before Cabs

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Alcohol, Grain, Harvest / October 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Chaff itch down your neck
and a cold beer in your hand
great barley circle

Residential School

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Abuse, Church, Colonialism, First Nations, Residential Schools, Truth and Reconciliation / September 30, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Will there be a hell
fofr those who taught you
that there was one

Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

9-11 (September)

Audio Recordings, Haiku, News, Remembering / tagged Death, Questioning, Terrorism, Twin Towers / September 11, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

New York September
Two new holes in the sky
children ask why

25 Years Later

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 8

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Nourishment, Rain, Relief / August 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The farmer complains
gratitude too much like pride
outside the rain falls

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

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 5

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Heat, Seasons, Summer, Sunrise / August 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sun rises at four
bones store summer heat
winter days are short

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 4

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Alcohol / August 25, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Beer is all gone
road weaves our way home
morning comes soon

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 3

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Attraction, Desire, Heat / August 24, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Girl in summer dress
more heat inside than out
fall is soon coming

Long Hot Saskatchewan Summer Haiku 2

Audio Recordings, Farm, Haiku, Ranch Life / tagged Fatigue, Heat, Summer, Tractor, Work / August 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Plow breaks again
metal too hot to touch
will evening come

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