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Tabby La Rosa

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Cats, Education, Horses, Kittens, Learning / May 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Horses are cats
they just want to be
petted and loved

Although
when you neglect to do so
they are much more likely
to send you flying
than piss on your best Persian mat

That sort of thing is reserved for cats
and cats are not horses
and deeply resent being ridden

as every toddling two-year-old
in history (unable to read history)
will have to have etched
on the blank slates of their skin

How The Ear and The Eye

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Communication / May 2, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

How the ear and the eye
both sender and receiver be

How like the sun
you warm all that you softly see

And do not think
dear hammer anvil ear
that little drum plays but for thee

Reincarnation by Loon

Audio Recordings, Nature, Remembering / tagged Birds / April 15, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Not there's a sound
you could take anywhere
and remember
when you returned

The Joy of the Loon

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Birds / April 14, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The joy of the loon
is in the sadness of his song
Candle Lake at dawn

Candle Lake 2000

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Rain, Spring / April 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Five in the morning

Wind shakes northern cabin
rain rattles roof and window

Plaintive loons cry and try
to lift the hidden sun

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The Reds of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Celebration, Christ, Easter, Flowers, Rebirth, Spring, Wildflowers / April 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

A radiance of cardinals
an inebriation of winecups

Indian paintbrush
in a field of bluebonnets

Easter running down his ribs

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Reincarnation by Cloud

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Connection, Hope, Rebirth / April 11, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Does the rain falling on us now
remember the palmed oasis
the emerald lake of the Rockies
the laughing over small stones

Hand in hand we stand
faces upward, wet with hope

Light

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Perspective / April 1, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The thing about light
is that it never gets tired

Three million years at the speed of itself
from that star to here
without a slow day or a stop to complain

On the days that I remember
things move pretty well as well

Feeding the Koi

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Fish / March 13, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Prideful as peacocks
accepting dues that beauty earns
turn and swim away

Bowing to Basho

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Anticipation, Patience, Wisdom / March 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Nature by nature
sits by the old pond waiting
will the frog leap soon

Basho – 17th century Japanese haiku master

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