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A Frosty Morning

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry / tagged Autumn, Choices, Decisions, Dreams, Fall, Robert Frost / November 21, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
two roads diverged and me taking both

In waking and in sleeping
through the thicket that lies between
if-pods on dream cycles forth and back

And so much easier as winter comes
and almost all the leaves have fallen

Never Thought Of It As Solitude

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / November 19, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Thoreau went to Walden
to get to where we were born

There were ponds on our ranch
and sloughs aplenty and a lake

And we happy to let them be
just where and what they were

Waters neither rilled nor stilled
by the bullying of undue notice

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Prairie Wool

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Preparation, Seasons, Winter / November 18, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The northern days grow short
The horses are all hairing-up

The hills pull scarf and shawl
of prairie wool, alpaca soft,
round their necks and shoulders

Winter's heading for the ranch
and woe to those not ready

Jeanne-Marie Writes A New Book

Audio Recordings, Environment, Farm, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Ranch Life / tagged Prairie, Rain / November 17, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

When it rains in Biggar Saskatchewan
a bigger battle begins
Grass and grain sucking straws
to the slurping point
The sun trying as always to extract
far more than its fair tithe
Muddy waters swirling down drains
of gopher and badger holes
Settling through hollows of buffalo wallows
where the buffalo no longer roam
Remainders feeding underground streams
and deep raging rivers

If I put my feet or ear to the ground
I can almost understand her last poem
Almost hear the next one

Biggar Saskatchewan’s town motto: New York is Big, but this is Biggar

Wheat

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Nostalgia, Ranch Life / tagged Bread, Communion, Grain, Harvest, Nourishment, Prairie / November 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

What perfect voice will sing the truths of wheat?
- Frederico Lorca

Wheat half-ripe for chewing gum

Wheat for rolling waves in wind
Wheat for loaves and fishes giving

Wheat for shovelling wheat all day
and eating earned fresh from oven

Wheat for Jesus body sharing
and your bretheren in the pews

Wheat for only rain is news

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Fall Retreat

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Cold, Humor / October 30, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Lilliputian army
wind at back in full attack

Rust-edged swords
at unarmored ankles flailing
harries me to any door that opens

Falling

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Seasons, Trees / October 29, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall again and leaves
every day deciding to go or stay

Until even the most coy sees the joy
is with the gone at the party on the lawn
Lets the wind blow up her skirts and flirts
to
the
ground

Falling Upward

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Autumn, Seasons, Trees / October 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mini whirlwind twirls
its way along
October street

One last chance
for leaves
to return to trees

Dark Skies

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Contemplation, Milky Way, Stars / October 16, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

He
turns off the TV
and goes outside to count
bullet holes in the sky

Rising moon is a lime in a Corona

New-cut hay is youth
and him lying on his back
traveling the milk-paved path

He lays back on the hay

Twin Oaks

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / October 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the Cartwright ranch
the one by Corpus Christi
two oaks have grown to form a heart

The trees are of the live oak breed
and bear their leaves all the year
for a thousand years and more

Which may not be
eternal love
but close enough
for Miss C. and me

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