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Living Poetry

A Poem by Donald Meikle

A pool's solar cover buried in Andromeda blossoms A rhododendron tree buried in sunburst flowers Two multi colored waterlilies rocking in fish feedi..

Salted Sadness

A Poem by Donald Meikle

The hot sweet taste of tears The warmth of september haystacks The high free scream of soaring hawk Your hands stroking my lower back The soft swe..

Speeds of then

A Poem by Donald Meikle

to sing a song of yesterday and then the day before you need to taste a memory of then and sip some more To sit beside this trickling stream forg..

I don't often miss

A Story by Donald Meikle

I miss Scotland almost as much as WalesThere is a freedom of soul there that consistently awes me.To stand next to ice cold water flowing by. looking ..

How

A Poem by Donald Meikle

Look, then look again. Find, then take up pen. Someone will read, and see more. So waste not words, and get it right Today, before tonight..

Moon bright light

A Poem by Donald Meikle

Wet soled at ebb tideLooking east in redneck prideEver ready since youth leftA kindred soul to stand besideSated mated satisfiedSoft sweet breeze to s..

Snow Joke

A Poem by Donald Meikle

I sit here, back sorely aching from moving fallen snow.wishing I had set up solar panels to melt it as it fell, or bought a war surplus machine to pus..

Yet Afloat

A Poem by Donald Meikle

sometimes we find the words like brown water Mersey floating turds Bouncing and bobbing in wasted time Sometimes they even rhyme and found they fl..

Window Wishing

A Poem by Donald Meikle

Window Wishing Tight rolled leaves defy the cold Patiently await the warmth of sun No hint of breeze neath stone still cloud And yet the buds ..

Crushed leaves,broken twigs.

A Poem by Donald Meikle

words………….spoor…………hints of what was………tracks in wet snow……..