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Poet Trees in Fall

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Communication / October 24, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

(for Irving Layton)

Branches naked in the wind
pointing to their works below
molding their way into the grave

Rustlin’ Ain’t All About Cows

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Fall, Trees / October 23, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Down by the Blanco
as the fall dances start

Sycamore trees in the Texas breeze
rustle their skirts round their knobbly knees

Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

Full Moon at Weaning Time

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / October 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Cows, calves and coyotes
full throat under moon all night
Nobody sleeping at the ranch

Prompt credit: Wally Meili

Corn Moon

Audio Recordings, Nature / October 6, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The corn moon is a pumpkin this year
one veggie as nourishing as another

What have you sowed for harvest now
what will you sow for next year's moon

Caught You Looking

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Buddhism, Meditation / September 9, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Buddha in garden
practicing detachment from
beauty illusion

Show-Off

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Rainbows / September 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Nature
rainbowed and raw
in tooth and claw and awe

Plain as Plains

Audio Recordings, Nature, Ranch Life / September 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun does not rise or set
midst peaks of mountain pageantry

nor crown like a baby's head
or drop like a gemstone into the sea

But dusk or dawn we sit
wearing what we're wearing
and quietly making the best of it

Waxwings

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Birds, Joy, Spring / August 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waxwings
drunk on berries and spring
are partying wild in our yard

Brother Icarus feeling such joy
might have too neared the sun
at the top of a loop like that

Picking Raspberries in a Short-Sleeved Shirt

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Delight, Joy, Pain, Searching, Thorns / August 7, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

These are not roses
who will tear your heart out
with their beauty and its price

Though reaching through
the deepest bush
for the richest reds
will tickle-scratch you enough
to linger past taste buds fleeting joy

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Indeed!
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Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
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Lovely!
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