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Canada Geese

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Autumn, Birds, Fall, Hunting / October 12, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The seeing geese fly freer now
across the autumn sky

No longer do they gorge
on my father's golden grain

No longer do I lie in wait
twelve gauge at the ready
to bring them in for dinner

Blue Spruce

Audio Recordings, Family, Ranch Life, Remembering / tagged Birds, Childhood, Play / July 9, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

It may have been about thirty feet tall
taller when you're small

And on the very top would sit
the great horned owl
If the anti-Christ were to have a Christmas tree
he could have capped it as the perfect dark angel
We cowered by the corner of the house
our very blood frozen pretty to his predator eyes
Yet when he flew away
we could snap - as only children can
from fear to play
run to divide the branches and return once more to the soft-needled floor
One little two little three little Indians in our magic tepee in a land of long ago and not so far away

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Spring Came In

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Birds, Spring / March 22, 2022 / 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

Decisions

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds / January 24, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I was of three minds
like a tree
in which there are three blackbirds - Wallace Stevens
Rooted to the ground I wait
for one to fly away
and free me up to flip a coin

Red-Winged Blackbird

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Attraction, Birds / January 23, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Male birds dress in bright array
to sweep the lonesome girls away
Night-black crow in formal shine
to dignify the "Please be mine"
Parrot plumage easy seen
deep within the jungle green
While robin's red red breast
can incite the urge to nest
Magpie jesters there by half
if only you can make them laugh
Red-winged blackbird on a post
uniforms always catch the most

All Blackbirds

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Birds / January 22, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Yellow-Headed Blackbird pair near Old Wives Lake, Saskatchewan Photo courtesy of: Giselle Forest, Mossbank, Saskatchewan

Black vs. White

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds, Polarization / January 20, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

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Shooting a Raven in Golf

Audio Recordings / tagged Birds, Humor, Sports / January 18, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Never mind your birdies and eagles and such
what do you call a perfect drive
on the first at Banff Springs
that a big black bird beaks up and swifts away

He might drop the ball in the hole flying by
or you mighta had a rifle in. your bag that day

the scoring would, or should, come out the same

Grackle Haiku

Audio Recordings, Haiku / tagged Birds / January 16, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Grackles in Austin
crows that could not make the choir
gather in protest

Sound Thinking

Audio Recordings, String Too Short To Save / tagged Birds, Humor / January 15, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

If a group of crows is a murder
a group of grackles must be
a massacre

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