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Robins Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature / tagged Birds, Spring / May 19, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The robins are back
red of breast and blue of egg
spring in every step

The Crow

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds, Death, Hunting, Youth / May 13, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Two boys and crow at fifty yards
two shots as one the crow fell still
we laughed and ran
whose hit whose miss
two holes in head
as close as this
0 0
the life was in our eyes and skill
too far from death to understand a kill

Eagle Eye at Eighteen

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds, Hunting, Regret / May 12, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The Golden Eagle hangs
on a string of grace
a hundred yards
to the west

I raise the 32-20
Winchester
and squeeze off
a shot

Dead hit in the breast
the string breaks and it drops

Quick voice in my head
Damn fine shot

Slow voice from my heart
Damn fool

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Indian River, Ontario

Audio Recordings, Haiku, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, Birds, Water / May 7, 2026 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Above waterfall
in circle of highest pine
green showers down

By the waterfall
body rests in hammock
cells rush to the sea

Below waterfall
power beyond soap and rub
washes off city

Lying on the bank
trees holding blue hammock
lift it to the sky

Indian River
great blue heron stands
wise Tibetan monk

Series of Haiku inspired by a visit to the Swinwoods

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

Migration

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life, Travel / tagged Birds / October 22, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Fall falling
we hosted great flocks
on their long way south

Blizzards of snow geese
and ducks and cranes a-clatter

Grain left behind the combine
topping their tanks with premium

We'll welcome them again in Spring
callings calmed to a Texas drawl

Photo Credit: James Meili

Waxwings

Audio Recordings, Flight, Nature / tagged Birds, Joy, Spring / August 19, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Waxwings
drunk on berries and spring
are partying wild in our yard

Brother Icarus feeling such joy
might have too neared the sun
at the top of a loop like that

The Crocus

Audio Recordings, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Birds, Spring / May 13, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Loud crows and bright robins
promise an early spring

But they are of the sky
and can be easily fooled

Only the crocus knows

Spring Came In

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Flowers, Seasons / May 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Spring came in
like a slinky on a stair

Coiling and recoiling
twenty degrees at a leap

The robin looking at the
crocus twice to see if it was real

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The Ignorance of Spring

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Appreciation, Birds, Flowers / April 2, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This one morning, the only one
there are bluebonnets
and flowers many more
that I feel no need to name
and birdsong from birds the same
that I will not cease
from looking up to look up in a book

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