Red convex arch
curving
over pool’s wetness.
Orange carp breathe
circles
on deep water’s surface.
Electric blue dance
damselflies
skimming liquid’s face.
Swallows swoop low
dark darts
harbingers of solitude.
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Mike Everley has written poetry for many years and been published in, amongst other places, the Anglo Welsh Review, Cambrensis, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Outposts, Cardiff Poet, Undiscovered Poet, Entheoscope, Poetry News (Poetry Society), Lothlorien Online Poetry Journal, 5-7-5 Haiku Online Journal, The Bamboo Hut, Dark Poets Club, Green Ink Poetry, Coop, Wildfire Words, The Closed Eye, These Pages Sing, The Seventh Quarry and Acumen. He was a member of both the NUJ and the Society of Authors before retirement.
