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Talking to Snow

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Winter / January 29, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Rain can spread rumors
ice will always sass you back
snow keeps your secrets

The Innocence of Snow

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Cows, Family, Farm, Nature, News, Nostalgia, Ranch Life, Remembering / January 28, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter
was winter
and all the world

When the only light was lamp
and the only power God
and the innocence of snow
lay soft on lad and land

When floating breath of kin and kine
was pure and white as well
and mankind too as far as we could tell

Antennae daily now
break down the door with news of war

Winter on the ranch Kin = Family & Kine = Cattle

Snow Blind

Audio Recordings, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Winter / January 27, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Snow of the backs of cattle

snow on the shovel lifting
snow on the sled hill squifting

snow on the ice road surfing
snow on the shed roof aching

snow in the memories binding
snow in the diamonds blinding

Snows

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Weather, Winter / January 26, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

There is the snow
that makes Christmas of all
as might have fallen on the stable

There is the farmer's snow
Moisture is moisture don't complain

There is snow in bad company
ganged up with wind to kill you dead

There is snow when you're safe inside
and snow keeping you from getting there

And snow if flakes, no treat so sweet
resting tingly on an outstretched tongue

A Word in the Woods

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Affection, Energy, Trust / January 15, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When you
in need or wild abandon
throw your arms around a tree
it is the tree that hugs you back

But don't
be so sanguine with a porcupine

There are people in this world
who live in joy and trust in God
and being with them so do you

And some so filled with static of fear
that your hair stands up when near

Core Strength

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Healing, Rejuvenation, Seasons, Trees / January 14, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Unshaded by leaves
all winter long the old oak
drinks deep of the sun

Sanctuary

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Birds, Contemplation, Peace, Reflection, Solitude / November 16, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Hard by Mount Allison U.
in New Brunswick Canada
lies a protected marshland
where students and birds
can come for quiet reflection

There's one watching
a heron watching a heron now

Photo credit: William Bullock

Racy Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Eden, Fall, Play, Trees / November 3, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The rain picked up the leaves and ran
three-legged races cross the pan

in trois' ménage of sexy joy
each to the other two a toy

And those that fell from apple trees
picked up stick snakes to make it threes

Light on Leaves

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Fall, Seasons, Spring, Trees / November 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

From earliest spring
kaleidoscopes of green
as sun and wind turn the screen

And in fall
the most beautiful twirls of all

Somewhere near you
there will likely be a tree - Go see

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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

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Sandi Hebley on Lonely LightFebruary 12, 2026
How sweet!
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…

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