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Snowbirds in Flight

Audio Recordings, Travel / tagged Aging, Winter / February 18, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Icicles are seldom but never not curved
given the shape of eavestroughs and all
and deaths not uncommon when they fall
Many a Canadian grown up with that threat
and each year older holding harder to living
will run from that moon as fast as they can
and not until next April will you see them again

The Oaks of Austin

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature / tagged Damage, Ice Storm, Texas, Trees, Winter / February 8, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

February of 2023
was not a good time to be a tree

Oaks old enough to be gray of hair
falling, wisdom ignored, everywhere

Let us bow our heads as they
centuries of grateful as we pray

Photo provided by Thom the World Poet

Snow Blind

Audio Recordings, Cattle, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged memories, Winter / February 7, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Snow on the backs of cattle
snow on the shovel lifting
snow on the sled hill squifting
snow on the ice road surfing
snow on the shed roof aching
snow in the memories binding
snow in the diamonds blinding

This Cold

Audio Recordings, Farm, Nature, Ranch Life / tagged Snow, Winter / February 6, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

This cold the snow squeaks underfoot
all the way from house to barn

as if in protest gainst the added pain
of stepping on each flake's
fragile frostbit fingers

Buddha with a Toque

Audio Recordings, Nature, String Too Short To Save / tagged Winter / February 5, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Serenity Descends

Morning Gratitudes

Audio Recordings, Nature / tagged Beauty, Gratitude, Snow, Winter / February 4, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

After my morning gratitudes
look out the window
to great flakes
softling to the ground

Always room for one more

Frost Bite

Audio Recordings, Environment, Nature, Personal Growth, Ranch Life, Relationships / tagged Grief, Healing, Heartbreak, Winter / January 20, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

In January on the Wood River
the laces got wet and then stiff
and could not be untied

Walked the wimpering long mile home
in one frozen skate and one warm boot
part of my foot and all my toes
numb and milky white

On the prairies they know
that you have to use snow

Too much warmth all at once
can bring the feeling rushing back
with more pain than you can stand

I have since learned
- and this is the hard part-
It is the same way with the heart

From Canada With Love

Audio Recordings, Nature, Relationships / tagged Winter / January 19, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Winter winds of icy chill
to drive you from
the os and 1s of your screens
into the twos and more of each others arms

A Picture Poem

Audio Recordings, Nature, Travel / tagged Beauty, photography, Winter / January 12, 2023 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Mid afternoon, mid December
American Airlines from Dallas
drops into Calgary with the snow

Soft flakes fall as we rent the car
stop as we drive north into
an Ansel Adams world

Sky pillowed gray on gray
Houses and barns and bales
covered in white powder

Trees all a-bloom with hoary frost
both sides of the coal black road

For the next hour
any picture we take with color film
would still come out black and white

Until we top the overpass and see from a
horizon that was not a horizon
the rising of a Mandarin Orange moon

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The Sun More Shy

Audio Recordings, Personal Growth / tagged Courage, New Year, Winter / December 31, 2022 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

The sun more shy than shining
white Christmas gone and going

Another year of courage needed
stoke the fires as you are called to

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