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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

Existence & Meaning Report

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

latest writing

Perspectives Report
On Bravery
R. Meskill
Perspectives
On Bravery
R. Meskill
Perspectives

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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R. Meskill
Perspectives
On Living Fully
R. Meskill
Poetry
On Living Fully
R. Meskill
Poetry

On living fully: To have war within your body and yet be at peace with yourself.

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R. Meskill
Poetry
Existence & Meaning Report
Quatrain 01 · Our Creation
R. Meskill
Quatrains
Quatrain 01 · Our Creation
R. Meskill
Quatrains

Heaven seems so far away when we look for it outside ourselves.

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R. Meskill
Quatrains
Your Soul Always Remains
R. Meskill
Reflections
Your Soul Always Remains
R. Meskill
Reflections

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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R. Meskill
Reflections

short form poetry

  • 01 · City nights

    ☼
    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

  • 09 · Truth

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    In reality,
    Truth prevails, the harsh cold wind
    Which leads us to peace

    haiku | 09

  • 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