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The Story of Storks

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Birth / August 6, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The story of storks bringing babies
was a hard sell on the ranch

Along with watching others arrive in other ways
the storybook pictures of tile roofs and tall chimneys
didn't look anything much like Saskatchewan

And why such an improbable bird
carrying little nipper in a knotted cotton nappie
(although some foresight might be granted there)

When readily available about a mile away
was a lake full of pelicans better suited to the task

Candle Lake

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Birds / July 28, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Northern dawn
Soft haiku sky
Seven loons float by

The Cry of the Loon

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Birds / July 27, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The cry of the loon
shatters the glass of the lake
V shard follows her

Sheet Lightning

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, News / tagged Dread, Fear, Hiding, Storms / July 15, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Call it sheet lightning
pull the bed over your head
How long til thunder

Lake Louise to Jasper

Audio Recordings, Nature, Poems about Poetry, Travel / tagged Banff, Jasper, Rocky Mountains / July 13, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Poet
struck dumb
by the folly
of throwing
a word against a mountain

Mountain Music

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Banff, Jasper, Music / July 12, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The rugged crags of Wagner
The calming lakes of Bach

And on the slopes between
broad symphonies of green

A Tree of Two Minds

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Jasper, Mountains / July 11, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the shore
of the Athabasca
just above the rapids
a tree reaches
ever divided in aim
between water and sky

Just enough trunk
growing sideways
for two lovers
to sit safely and dream
before it also
turns its hopes upward

Athabasca

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Travel / tagged Climate Change, Global Warming / July 10, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Along the Icefields Parkway
(prettiest road in the world)
winding from Lake Louise to Jasper
lies a glacier that feeds three oceans
(Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic)

It takes a hundred years for a snowflake falling on the top to make it to the bottom

Before a snowflake that falls today finishes its journey the glacier may be gone

On the other side of the road in spring
water falls down a long face of rock
They call it the weeping wall
it may still be there

In the Mountain Parks

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / July 9, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The beaver does not bother
to stop his building long enough
to slap his tail and dive

The black bear ambles unconcerned
along the flowered motorway
across from the great glacier

You want to be, at least for a day
that mountain goat
hanging impossibly on the slope

I want to be the bighorn sheep
that just passed four feet away
the one with the biggest horns

The Badger

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / July 8, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Observe the badger
creature of the earth

See how she moves
with the grace and ferocity
of tectonic plates

Observe the badger
but do not try to pet
her soft earth softness

Do not let your hand
get caught
between the plates

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