Comments received on poems by Mottakeenur Rehman
The Great Poetry, or The Highest Part of Life
sorenbarrett said:
Well written Nature and all the world is the poem. All that we write just fragments. A lovely poem Mottakeenur
June 28th, 2025 04:08
sorenbarrett said:
Well written Nature and all the world is the poem. All that we write just fragments. A lovely poem Mottakeenur
June 28th, 2025 04:08
Evergreen: The Timeless Power of Poetry
Poetic Licence said:
This is an exceptional wonderful piece of writing, a pleasure to read
June 27th, 2025 09:10
Poetic Licence said:
This is an exceptional wonderful piece of writing, a pleasure to read
June 27th, 2025 09:10
Evergreen: The Timeless Power of Poetry
arqios said:
Such a passionate love letter to poetry itself—its endurance, its quiet power, and its refusal to be diminished. It elevates the art from mere ornament to essential force: sunlight, river, lantern, key. There’s something deeply personal yet collective in the voice: speaking as one who’s walked through life empty-handed yet fully armed with language, as if poetry alone was enough to confront the dark. Lines like “no armor but the word, no shield but ‘why?’” land with striking honesty. The poet isn’t cloaked in grandeur, but in the relentless asking and seeking that poetry demands. That stanza in particular feels like a manifesto: a gentle defiance, a deep belief that sight (perception, understanding) is more powerful than conquest. And when the speaker claims to hold “only keys,” it’s a beautiful paradox: nothing flashy, just the means to unlock: imagination, insight, even time itself. The final image is especially haunting and affirming: poetry as the ghost wind that moves unseen but unmistakably, still whispering truth into the sleeping world. There’s reverence here, but also grit. Poetry isn’t being canonised, it is being lived. And you feel, reading it, that it really is evergreen.
June 27th, 2025 06:58
arqios said:
Such a passionate love letter to poetry itself—its endurance, its quiet power, and its refusal to be diminished. It elevates the art from mere ornament to essential force: sunlight, river, lantern, key. There’s something deeply personal yet collective in the voice: speaking as one who’s walked through life empty-handed yet fully armed with language, as if poetry alone was enough to confront the dark. Lines like “no armor but the word, no shield but ‘why?’” land with striking honesty. The poet isn’t cloaked in grandeur, but in the relentless asking and seeking that poetry demands. That stanza in particular feels like a manifesto: a gentle defiance, a deep belief that sight (perception, understanding) is more powerful than conquest. And when the speaker claims to hold “only keys,” it’s a beautiful paradox: nothing flashy, just the means to unlock: imagination, insight, even time itself. The final image is especially haunting and affirming: poetry as the ghost wind that moves unseen but unmistakably, still whispering truth into the sleeping world. There’s reverence here, but also grit. Poetry isn’t being canonised, it is being lived. And you feel, reading it, that it really is evergreen.
June 27th, 2025 06:58
Evergreen: The Timeless Power of Poetry
sorenbarrett said:
Brilliant!! A most wonderful write a poem that sets in masterful lines the essence of poetry. With wonderful metaphor this poem displays poetry\'s glory in some exceptional lines. (I walked with nothing yet carried the sky) so much said in so little. The second to the last stanza is amazing and all is culminated in the last stanza. This deserves a much wider read. Without doubt a fave
June 27th, 2025 06:34
sorenbarrett said:
Brilliant!! A most wonderful write a poem that sets in masterful lines the essence of poetry. With wonderful metaphor this poem displays poetry\'s glory in some exceptional lines. (I walked with nothing yet carried the sky) so much said in so little. The second to the last stanza is amazing and all is culminated in the last stanza. This deserves a much wider read. Without doubt a fave
June 27th, 2025 06:34
Charity Begins At Home
Poetic Licence said:
A beautiful write with such an important message, your poems are so beautifully constructed creating wonderful images, enjoyed the read
June 25th, 2025 16:08
Poetic Licence said:
A beautiful write with such an important message, your poems are so beautifully constructed creating wonderful images, enjoyed the read
June 25th, 2025 16:08
Charity Begins At Home
sorenbarrett said:
A lovely and important message set in beautiful rhyme and polished with great images a fave
June 25th, 2025 04:16
sorenbarrett said:
A lovely and important message set in beautiful rhyme and polished with great images a fave
June 25th, 2025 04:16
The Human Fabric
Poetic Licence said:
A sad tale of the ignorance and arrogance man inhales and displays in its for ever more greed, asking if humanity has failed, enjoyed the read
June 23rd, 2025 09:13
Poetic Licence said:
A sad tale of the ignorance and arrogance man inhales and displays in its for ever more greed, asking if humanity has failed, enjoyed the read
June 23rd, 2025 09:13
The Human Fabric
sorenbarrett said:
Ignorance to our own dark side and frailties a fallen or maybe never risen species that in its greed takes more than needed. Cynical yet truthful it tells of life bought with wealth and a sad and cruel world where man more parasite than human takes in his arrogance and ignorance. nicely written in good rhyme a fave.
June 23rd, 2025 05:29
sorenbarrett said:
Ignorance to our own dark side and frailties a fallen or maybe never risen species that in its greed takes more than needed. Cynical yet truthful it tells of life bought with wealth and a sad and cruel world where man more parasite than human takes in his arrogance and ignorance. nicely written in good rhyme a fave.
June 23rd, 2025 05:29
The Human Fabric
arqios said:
This poem is a tapestry woven with solemn fire; bold, fearless, and lit with the sorrowful wisdom of someone who has stood too long at the crossroads of power and conscience. Each couplet hums with both lament and fierce clarity, asking not if humanity has failed, but how deeply it has forgotten what it means to be whole. Most thoroughly enjoyed. 🙏🏻🕊️
June 23rd, 2025 05:02
arqios said:
This poem is a tapestry woven with solemn fire; bold, fearless, and lit with the sorrowful wisdom of someone who has stood too long at the crossroads of power and conscience. Each couplet hums with both lament and fierce clarity, asking not if humanity has failed, but how deeply it has forgotten what it means to be whole. Most thoroughly enjoyed. 🙏🏻🕊️
June 23rd, 2025 05:02
I Was Not Born a Ghost (The Eternal Cry of the Unbroken)
arqios said:
Here is a cry carved from the marrow of history; a poetic reckoning with colonisation, erasure, and resistance. Your poetic speaker bears witness to how identity is not just erased but overwritten, priced, policed, then reborn—fiercer. 🕊️🙏🏻
June 23rd, 2025 03:11
arqios said:
Here is a cry carved from the marrow of history; a poetic reckoning with colonisation, erasure, and resistance. Your poetic speaker bears witness to how identity is not just erased but overwritten, priced, policed, then reborn—fiercer. 🕊️🙏🏻
June 23rd, 2025 03:11
I Was Not Born a Ghost (The Eternal Cry of the Unbroken)
Poetic Licence said:
An interesting and thought provoking write regarding the differences between war and piece and the reasons for it. War is always remembered, peace or wanting of it is so easily forgotten, but we have to keep sowing those seeds and hope some take route, enjoyed the read
June 22nd, 2025 19:46
Poetic Licence said:
An interesting and thought provoking write regarding the differences between war and piece and the reasons for it. War is always remembered, peace or wanting of it is so easily forgotten, but we have to keep sowing those seeds and hope some take route, enjoyed the read
June 22nd, 2025 19:46
I Was Not Born a Ghost (The Eternal Cry of the Unbroken)
Mourgana of the Fey said:
Hello,
This seemed a piece that was aimed to balance the scales between war and peace. Where motives behind war often have nothing to do with the human side each piece of peace is eternally forgotten though through poetry shards of it , perhaps intentions can be sowed as kernels. Ink can send out ripples, even small ripples can find union within ink and within poems and poetry, I enjoyed the read
June 22nd, 2025 15:11
Mourgana of the Fey said:
Hello,
This seemed a piece that was aimed to balance the scales between war and peace. Where motives behind war often have nothing to do with the human side each piece of peace is eternally forgotten though through poetry shards of it , perhaps intentions can be sowed as kernels. Ink can send out ripples, even small ripples can find union within ink and within poems and poetry, I enjoyed the read
June 22nd, 2025 15:11
I Was Not Born a Ghost (The Eternal Cry of the Unbroken)
sorenbarrett said:
All seem the same be they politicians, physicians, technicians doesn\'t matter the name. Religion or any institution they are all the same. Good write
June 22nd, 2025 13:53
sorenbarrett said:
All seem the same be they politicians, physicians, technicians doesn\'t matter the name. Religion or any institution they are all the same. Good write
June 22nd, 2025 13:53
A Forever Moment
RSM0812 said:
A unique poem comparing nature to love. Well written and thought up with good verses, imagery and rhyme. Nice job.
June 22nd, 2025 04:54
RSM0812 said:
A unique poem comparing nature to love. Well written and thought up with good verses, imagery and rhyme. Nice job.
June 22nd, 2025 04:54
The Fisherman’s Last Tide
Poetic Licence said:
A touching and sad of a women reflecting on the sacrifices her husband made to provide and wishing he could return, then accepting he is not coming back and now remembering the love instead, lovely write, enjoyed the read
June 21st, 2025 07:35
Poetic Licence said:
A touching and sad of a women reflecting on the sacrifices her husband made to provide and wishing he could return, then accepting he is not coming back and now remembering the love instead, lovely write, enjoyed the read
June 21st, 2025 07:35
The Fisherman’s Last Tide
sorenbarrett said:
Mottakeenur you outdo yourself. Another most wonderful poem that pulls at the heart with line after line of great poetry. To cite one would do disservice to the others unless the whole poem was cited. Brilliant! and a fave
June 21st, 2025 04:36
sorenbarrett said:
Mottakeenur you outdo yourself. Another most wonderful poem that pulls at the heart with line after line of great poetry. To cite one would do disservice to the others unless the whole poem was cited. Brilliant! and a fave
June 21st, 2025 04:36
While I Am
Poetic Licence said:
Happy to wait as the future has potential, nicely expressed and written, enjoyed the read
June 20th, 2025 07:20
Poetic Licence said:
Happy to wait as the future has potential, nicely expressed and written, enjoyed the read
June 20th, 2025 07:20
While I Am
arqios said:
The poem\'s narrator appears to exist in the liminal space between inspiration and disappearance—“the one who writes slips quietly” is such an elegant way to describe the ego dissolving into the act of creation. It’s not despairing, but meditative, even hopeful. There’s comfort in the act of waiting, “not lost, but tied / To dreams the future hides inside. This poem doesn’t cry out for answers but it invites stillness, reflection, a shared silence between writer and reader. Like a page that holds more than ink: it holds presence. 🕊️🙏🏻
June 20th, 2025 06:02
arqios said:
The poem\'s narrator appears to exist in the liminal space between inspiration and disappearance—“the one who writes slips quietly” is such an elegant way to describe the ego dissolving into the act of creation. It’s not despairing, but meditative, even hopeful. There’s comfort in the act of waiting, “not lost, but tied / To dreams the future hides inside. This poem doesn’t cry out for answers but it invites stillness, reflection, a shared silence between writer and reader. Like a page that holds more than ink: it holds presence. 🕊️🙏🏻
June 20th, 2025 06:02
The Eternal Tides
Reynaldo Casison said:
Nice one Motta
Theres a sweet poignancy
and soothing flow withIn each stanza
June 20th, 2025 05:53
Reynaldo Casison said:
Nice one Motta
Theres a sweet poignancy
and soothing flow withIn each stanza
June 20th, 2025 05:53
While I Am
sorenbarrett said:
Very nice Mottakeenur a very abstract concept put in poetic words. Most lovely
June 20th, 2025 03:58
sorenbarrett said:
Very nice Mottakeenur a very abstract concept put in poetic words. Most lovely
June 20th, 2025 03:58
The Eternal Tides
Poetic Licence said:
You have such a way with words, for myself I learn so much reading your beautifully writing and the deep meanings contained within the wonderful lines, pleasure to read
June 19th, 2025 06:21
Poetic Licence said:
You have such a way with words, for myself I learn so much reading your beautifully writing and the deep meanings contained within the wonderful lines, pleasure to read
June 19th, 2025 06:21
The Eternal Tides
arqios said:
A poem that speaks to the timeless dance between art and existence, a poignant exploration of our ability to imprint the ephemeral with meaning. Pointing at poetry’s dual role as a keeper of time and a healer of hearts, touching wounds while daring joy. And finally, the Timeless stanza rises triumphantly, turning the act of writing into a rebellion against time itself—a capture of eternity within fleeting lines. Issuing from the Past glowing with nostalgia, a flame that dances backward, illuminating the echoes of experience. The Future hums with possibility, the tide carrying dreams yet unformed. In the Present, the pulse of creation becomes sacred—where fleeting moments bloom into permanence.
June 19th, 2025 05:35
arqios said:
A poem that speaks to the timeless dance between art and existence, a poignant exploration of our ability to imprint the ephemeral with meaning. Pointing at poetry’s dual role as a keeper of time and a healer of hearts, touching wounds while daring joy. And finally, the Timeless stanza rises triumphantly, turning the act of writing into a rebellion against time itself—a capture of eternity within fleeting lines. Issuing from the Past glowing with nostalgia, a flame that dances backward, illuminating the echoes of experience. The Future hums with possibility, the tide carrying dreams yet unformed. In the Present, the pulse of creation becomes sacred—where fleeting moments bloom into permanence.
June 19th, 2025 05:35
The Eternal Tides
sorenbarrett said:
Mottakeenur I have never done this before but I am only half way though reading this poem and so struck with its wisdom, beauty or wording that I had to begin to write this. It\'s incredible deep meaning put in such beautiful worded rhyme feels as though it has been written divinely and smoothed in the river of time like a stone. There are a few poems that in my weakness I envy and this is one. A fave after the first stanza
June 19th, 2025 04:30
sorenbarrett said:
Mottakeenur I have never done this before but I am only half way though reading this poem and so struck with its wisdom, beauty or wording that I had to begin to write this. It\'s incredible deep meaning put in such beautiful worded rhyme feels as though it has been written divinely and smoothed in the river of time like a stone. There are a few poems that in my weakness I envy and this is one. A fave after the first stanza
June 19th, 2025 04:30
The Covenant of Eyes
Poetic Licence said:
Like a child it should be nurtured, fed, protected and be encompassed in honest and truthful care and compassion in order for it to thrive, enjoyed the read
June 18th, 2025 23:41
Poetic Licence said:
Like a child it should be nurtured, fed, protected and be encompassed in honest and truthful care and compassion in order for it to thrive, enjoyed the read
June 18th, 2025 23:41
The Covenant of Eyes
arqios said:
Hey there! Now this applies to all aspects of life an living. We shall not be lost to time because of this; not if we can help it! 🙏🏻🕊️ Faved 🤩
June 18th, 2025 17:27
arqios said:
Hey there! Now this applies to all aspects of life an living. We shall not be lost to time because of this; not if we can help it! 🙏🏻🕊️ Faved 🤩
June 18th, 2025 17:27
The Covenant of Eyes
sorenbarrett said:
A most beautifully written poem and it is the meter and its flow combined with the rhyme that this poem gets my fave
June 18th, 2025 13:54
sorenbarrett said:
A most beautifully written poem and it is the meter and its flow combined with the rhyme that this poem gets my fave
June 18th, 2025 13:54
When Rain Becomes Us
Poetic Licence said:
The rain our and natures lifeblood, which without neither would survive, enjoyed the read
June 17th, 2025 09:34
Poetic Licence said:
The rain our and natures lifeblood, which without neither would survive, enjoyed the read
June 17th, 2025 09:34
When Rain Becomes Us
sorenbarrett said:
This holds such a spring or even summer like feel to it. It brings a monsoon season like feel. Very nice
June 17th, 2025 04:16
sorenbarrett said:
This holds such a spring or even summer like feel to it. It brings a monsoon season like feel. Very nice
June 17th, 2025 04:16
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