Dreams of peace

Dreams of peace

A Poem by Donald Meikle

A nymph and her daughter

Pause to refresh

Two caught in polite conversation

Like the admiring tenant.

Yet whatever  happened (shivers)


To the beautiful day?

As two or three fingers 

Roll

Dance together  forming words

Yet


Another thought is played

Set In drifting time


We two four 

As two for

Running on in pensitivity


Roiling thoughts

Only echoing 

Longingly in trapped rapt melencholy  

Left

Softly swearing


On

Needless heedless wasted  lives



© 2012 Donald Meikle



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. those last seven lines are particularly stunning ...
. amazing work ...

Posted 1 Year Ago


ahh this poem has (for me) a minimalistic quality, to speak about something we don*t observe properly, like for a half a second we look at that and - then we are gone to look somewhere else.. to write so beauteously how fingers can be seen... I love your imagination, Donald

Posted 1 Year Ago


wow i love this! Incrediable!

Posted 1 Year Ago


So many clues, so little time.
Cryptic.
Brilliant.

Posted 1 Year Ago


Donald, you've got some real 'mind twisters' ("running on in pensitivity") threaded into this dark quilt ("Needless heedless wasted lives").

Posted 1 Year Ago



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Donald Meikle
Donald Meikle

Halifax, MA



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Liverpool born,USNavy vet. Enjoying first marriage. three daughters, (two bathrooms) one until they left. (a tree that loves me) Poet thru geneology) Scot Irish. Living in New England more..

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