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Red-Winged Blackbird

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Attraction, Birds / August 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Male birds dress in bright array
to sweep the lonesome girls away

Night-black crow in formal shine
to dignify the "Please be mine"

Parrot plumage easy seen
deep within the jungle green

While robin's red red breast
can incite the urge to nest

Magpie jesters there by half
if only you can make them laugh

Red-winged blackbird on a post
uniforms always catch the most

Coda Red

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Destruction, Smoke, Wildfires / July 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Nature red in tooth
fear and beauty dance again
forest fire sunset

In solidarité with our French friends, Pierre and Geneviève

Heat Wave Haiku

Audio Recordings, Environment, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Summer / July 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

In weather not fit
for man or doggerel
put down pen lift drink

Prairie Chicken

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Courage, Survival / July 8, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I came up through the valley where the homesteaders had tried to make a go of it for a few years, past the tin cans and other evidence of their short stay trying to rust itself back into the ground. Up over the crest of the hill where the Indians had lived for centuries with no more evidence than the weathered rocks of tepee rings

It was spring and I stumbled upon what they may have seen for centuries, the mating ceremony of about twenty-five or thirty grouse. They didn't see or hear me and I stopped about ten yards away and wathched (although my mother might not have thought it proper)

The hens ran around, heads down and tails up in unbashful invitation while the cocks puffed up the air bags in their chests and drummed their challenge

They looked handsome and brave in their posturing and beckoning and their readiness for reckoning and the fights were on, straight on and straight up with spurs and feathers flying

It was vicious but pure
Not a cockfight for the amusement of the bloody-minded, but a way to see that only the strongest would sire the little broods that would have to survive the hawks, and the snakes, and the weather; and all the dangers of a land where it takes a great deal of courage
- just to be a chicken

Black Hills of Dakota

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Broken Promises, Mining, Natural Resources, Treaties / July 3, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Grandpa’s Upstairs Porch

Audio Recordings, Family, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Siblings / June 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The only scenery was sky
the only light was lightning

Five of us sibled summer nights
blanketed against the cooling air

Watching storms from forever away
til they rained us to our beds

Little Clouds

Audio Recordings, Nature, News / tagged Grief, Optimism, Pessimism / June 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Little clouds in
the new blue of their skying
are more into play than crying

Their elders on the other hand
having seen so much more
of world and war - oh how they pour

Invitation By Flower

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Connection, Love / June 9, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Little lantana growing
through old bench boards

Saying Come sit with me
and we will be flowers three

Let us smile at one another
like there will never be another

Texas Ain’t Saskatchewan

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Spring / May 24, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rumors of springtime
no snow melt or pasture crocus
no sure way to tell

Redbuds in the Rain

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Travel / tagged Spring / May 23, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Sandi Hebley on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
Wow!
JM on The Man in the Desert RemembersJuly 21, 2026
This one really hit home Thank you
Judy Migel on TearsJuly 20, 2026
Dorsey is right. It is even more beautiful to hear the words in your voice and all the emotion in…
Eda Lishman on Lost at SeaJuly 16, 2026
Oh, Neil: This reflection sure hits the times we are a-living. Each day and night those of us who are…
Sandi Hebley on Eagle Bone WhistleJuly 6, 2026
Beautiful!!

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