An independent literary & philosophical publication by R. Meskill

The Meskill Report
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observational writing on how we experience life

T H E · R E P O R T S

Impressionist painting of a town street by Alfred Sisley, representing the Perspectives Report on The Meskill Report.
Impressionist painting of a town street by Alfred Sisley, representing the Perspectives Report on The Meskill Report.

Essays, observations, & poetry ·
on how our beliefs and perceptions shape our experience of the world around us.

Perspectives Report

Claude Monet painting of figures on a grassy cliff overlooking the ocean, representing the Existence and Meaning Report on The Meskill Report
Claude Monet painting of figures on a grassy cliff overlooking the ocean, representing the Existence and Meaning Report on The Meskill Report

Reflections & short essays ·
on the nature of free will, conscience, existence, and the meaning of life.

Existence & Meaning Report

recent essays

Existence & Meaning Report
R. Meskill
Your Soul Always Remains
R. Meskill

Once you’ve lived through enough phases in life, you can see that, for better or for worse, times will change. Yet your soul, the inner core of who you are, will always remain.

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Perspectives Report
R. Meskill
On Bravery
R. Meskill

Being brash is often confused with bravery.
Those who are brash may appear fearless as they brazenly and impulsively burn through life; however, true bravery is not the absence of fear.

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short form poetry ☼

  • 01 · City Nights

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    City nights in rain
    Lights reflecting on the street
    Peace in the chaos

    haiku | 01

  • 02 · Freedom

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    Freedom is falling
    Freedom is rising back up
    Freedom, the unknown

    haiku | 02

  • 03 · Purpose

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    Purpose is the pulse
    of the fiercely beating heart
    awake and on fire

    haiku | 03

  • 04 · Renewal

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    First sun of summer
    Glowing rays of light and hope
    Renew us once more

    haiku | 04

  • 05 · Return

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    Sun sets as I sigh
    So concludes another day
    Yet the sun returns

    haiku | 05

  • 06 · Precipice

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    On the precipice
    Sky above and rocks below
    Find out if I fly

    haiku | 06

  • 07 · Grief

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    Chest tightens, heart sinks
    As the memories flash by
    Suffocating weight

    haiku | 07

  • 08 · Daybreak

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    Light shines in darkness
    As day breaks on the ocean
    A whole life ahead

    haiku | 08

  • For when you lost someone

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    Our world is not the same without you,
    But heaven is better with you there.
    A part of us left the Earth that day,
    But part of you stayed with us here.

    free verse quatrain · elegy