Comments received on poems by aDarkerMind



And Me, Of The Flower And The Burn
L. B. Mek said:

what a cascading waterfall of acutely chosen
and uniquely vivid metaphorically abstract, imagery..
and I gravitate to your ability in managing
that essential tempo, by increasing your poetry\'s complexity
at poignant moments:
\'drowning in my lake with the swans
where wanders the tremors of my white blood oil;

I am the pilgrim of her dove-tail prose reviews
a satanic verse for the still-born of her movement.
me, of the flower and the burn\'..
(drowning
swans
blood-oil) that\'s just your initial layered - wordplay
and you\'ve planted all those oil leak, disaster images
in our minds already, to reinforce \'her\' plight..
(dove-tail
burn) - culminating finale, where again you add to the layers
already \'at play\', only now you\'ve \'set ablaze\' that initial image
we have of the oil drenched swan...
(pilgrim
satanic verse
still born
flower) now a completely new layer, with double meaning
wordplay, addressing your frustration at the hollowness
you feel, knowing your words, be themselves
will never amount to - decisive or impactful, change..
\'What a talent!\' wish I could invest more time
in all your writes..
just know I do my best to connect with every aspect
of all your writes,
and I thank you
for choosing to share your poetic brilliance

July 20th, 2021 03:20

What Price The Lewesdon Hill?
aDarkerMind said:

most kind...
and it is I who is humble I think.

thank you.

July 19th, 2021 13:33

What Price The Lewesdon Hill?
L. B. Mek said:

\'the spells of stones on limescale
the wells of a Dorset eye
where once I breathed with the ghost of Hardy\'s pen.

now sixty years and counting still
the love lines of my wrist
not deep enough to sing a sad farewell
nor high enough to reach a stairwells chime.\'
\'a ballad for a dying man
punching through the windows of my ears.
in Kings Wood,
where once I shared my carpet with the Yellow Kidney Vetch
sketched an arrow pointing south to Bucknowle Farm,
saw far beyond Old Harrys Rocks,
kissed Kimmeridge on a Dancing Ledge
and watched The Purbeck Marble shed it\'s skin.\'
(its just a privilege, to read - everything
that poetic genius of your mind, chooses
to share with us, dear poet
humbly, I thank you!)

July 19th, 2021 04:37

without the light of a sudden suprise
L. B. Mek said:

there\'s a film, its a 90\'s oldy and one I have a soft spot for
titled \'Rising Sun\', with the great Sean Connery
and a young Wesley snipes,
basically the premise, is a beautiful young lady
murdered in a Japanese office and this two guys
from wildly differing backgrounds investigate.
If you ever get a chance to see it
I think you may see how your words, inadvertently
may be interpreted
as an empathetic dedication: to that young lady...
\'running with the caffeine stains
of her swollen mound, her gown
for her creatures
and her caged hips, shits
on the foreskin
of her dancing cock and bull
how senseless: the needlessness
of our lust\'..
(what a purposefully - poignantly, aggressive
and deeply insightful write, dear poet
\'what a Talent\'!)


July 19th, 2021 04:32

summer jazz; manhatten;
aDarkerMind said:

thank you Neil;
Manharren is my all time fave.
Woody Allen to me is a master of comedy;

July 17th, 2021 08:59

as now the beast has come
L. B. Mek said:

there is so much depth
to how you utilise
that captivating trait
of juxtapose imagery:
\'coral (wordplay on chorale) hymns, for the dancing of the whale\'
\'tall gods for the arches*
house of chamelion;\'
\'ancient grapes with their paper mache hands
spoon flavours to the moon
of t-bone eyes and snails fin\'
(and that\'s all from two stanzas, lol)..
\'what a talent, you choose to share dear poet
thank you!\'
and btw have you read \'the master and margarita\'
by Mikhail Bulgakov,

July 16th, 2021 04:09

who cares the age of fantasy
L. B. Mek said:

\'high into the hills of a beehives afternoon tea
singing to the trees of my innocence and guilt;

in abstract form, a mangoes mother cheers a taverns light
with flight of hand, dangling the marrow of my aunt
on sawdust floors where pours a warming ale
deep into the eyes of the lovers crystal glaze
as each crooked beam steams the windows of my bread;\'

\'still, I make of this my very own affair;\'
\'and I too, was a kid once;\'
Amen!
Artistry\'s sublime decadence
of worded Poetic transcendence...
humbly, I thank you
\'What a Talent!\'

July 13th, 2021 06:11

When Once The Veil Of Her Face
L. B. Mek said:

\'unravelled the twists and turns as voice meets voice
torturing the ghost of my ears;

her eyes of a forest green
still lost inside the portrait of her distant shell
on her canvas of elusive bones
hiding with the hearts of swans far beyond her castle walls\'..
at this point, I just want to deep-dive, study
everything you write
I will say it, till the moon regains her sunflower beam
its a privilege to witness: your poetic genius, at play

July 13th, 2021 06:05

Who Lights The Way?
Poetic Dan said:

Many things I could say but I\'m quite glad I found your work today and went to the beginning to find this gem of word play!

Truly appreciated
Much peace and respect

July 11th, 2021 06:44

when time became my ocean
Poetic Dan said:

Brilliant again!

July 11th, 2021 06:40

Changing of the Guard
Poetic Dan said:

\"Sleeping alone with the medals of my constant war\" wow what a line and so much more, thank you for the inspiration!

Keep up the write
Much peace and respect

July 11th, 2021 06:38

when time became my ocean
flyingfish said:

WOW. Wonderful imagery. Well done. Best Wishes

July 9th, 2021 12:39

A Ponytail In A Hitchcock Play
L. B. Mek said:

(As much as I\'m just awed
by your display of poetic genius!)
surely, this write needs an age restriction warning
please, lets at least try to maintain some semblance
of consideration for the - as yet, untainted
by the life-weary: demoralised in our society,
(its just a click
costs nothing - takes away nothing
a simple gesture, that
common-sense civility: still exists)..
anyway, please forgive my opinionated moaning
and thanks for sharing

July 9th, 2021 03:35

And I, Who Has Kissed The Eyes Of Her Trees
L. B. Mek said:

\'and I, who has kissed the eyes of her trees
laid bare my snow-flake skin
with pains of a sulking wood\'
\'beyond the chorus of her mind
within a single word of a thimbles prayer
the high breeze of her scattered crawl\'
\'cast aside by the petals of lifes\' uncertain rose
as flows her blood through the veins
of my own now weary heart;\'
\'and I, who has died beside her grave
danced with the chimes of her cathederal eyes\'
\'and I, who has walked beneath her dawn
scented the candles of her hands
followed the echo of her breath\'
\'she, who now walks beneath my dawn
will sleep in peace
with the warmth of a one last midnight kiss
I will cry no more
and live forever in her heart;\'
\'with nothing left but the memory of her smile\'
(please forgive me for daring to rearrange
your masterful stanzas, dear Poet
but this is how your Poem expressed itself to me
so Beautifully!)
genuinely, one of the best love Poems
I have ever read: anywhere!
thank you, what a privilege


July 6th, 2021 03:14

what else that hides between?
L. B. Mek said:

\'between the fathom and the furlong
where twists the knives
of the thriving athiest
sister of the sun, mother of the moons\'
incarcerated doubt
with her stout heart and steady aim
so wings the steady progress
of her digestive heart\'s unsteady flight;\'
\'between Dante\'s hell
and her pale green skin of Oak
where her tempermental offspring
thrive on the saliva of her eyes
in splintered nests possessed
with obsessions cut and dried\'
\'between us and them
between a mundane and a miracle
before the healing of progressive scorn

I can do nothing more but witness
the shitless wonders
of a cold war in a summer heat, giving reason
for a heaving lungs
release from a captives grip;\'..
(behold: modernity\'s
self-destructive war
fought on those hairline splinters of difference
between those who profess to worship
one or a handful of deities - only
and thereby: by default
claim themselves - to be, atheist\'s
towards the other 3\'000 deities, known
to humanity;
and
those other\'s, who profess themselves
as atheist\'s to the entire 3\'000 or more
known deities, in our world...!)
how succinctly, yet poignantly you\'ve worded
our absurd basis for this seemingly unending
hatred and divisiveness,
dear talented Poet
(forgive me for cutting and pasting, so rudely
I was just trying to highlight your brilliance)


July 5th, 2021 05:17

Keep Walking
L. B. Mek said:

\'I saw a long dark cloak drifting on the spirit of Arden
I witnessed nothing more than any blind man could prove;

was it the woman I long to touch? I cannot find her
double jeopardy here, have only got one dice to roll
but with the race now on, somewhere in this darkness
hides the deepest mind buried in the deepest hole\'..
what a talent! dear Poet
and what a humbling privilege
to witness your wordsmith prowess

July 2nd, 2021 03:40

not since when last october lied
L. B. Mek said:

I read this, and can\'t help hearing
\'If I was God, I would\'ve - so done it all betta!\'
like a child, screeching
\'If I was a Parent, I would neva hurt my child\'
and then twenty or thirty years later
that same child - bellowing
\'stop crying! you have no idea
how lucky you are
to have Me as your parent, if it would\'ve been
My parents...\' lol
life\'s, so easy with that mindset of teen angst
mindless rebelliousness
where everything, is a consequence of circumstance
and a broken world - gifts
a landfill dumpsite of opportunity, to project
all the blame we accumulate
thereby insuring, all that raging anger
allows no room for accountability
to slither near, with our accrued invoice
for a lifetime of hypocritical idiocy...
Rage-on! dear poet
hope it helps, to distract - permanently
may you never
come across that withering mirror, of reality



July 1st, 2021 03:38

Of What About Exactly?
L. B. Mek said:

\'what harm can come from the swelling of silence?
this is all of what remains inside me now
once cherished now feared, always
a hunted Steer between chapters\'..
one day, there will be a gold rush
for these nugget\'s of insights
you choose to share with us
or, they\'ll inspire
someone the universe has intrusted
with a magnificently Poetic destiny,
either way
that potential of inspirational quality
you imbue
in each of your poems, is truly - well
inspiring

June 28th, 2021 06:08

Persistent Inconsistency
L. B. Mek said:

only, when those childhood pillar\'s
of perceived vehemence, are shed
do we finally begin
to taste and feel the veracity of modernity\'s
sleeted streets of dizzying misery;
and then: the true fun
of reality\'s seasonal, slaps: to our calloused face
can really, take aim...
meanwhile, we\'ll just grip the ropes and ponder
what round this is
and when, will we finally start doing that whole
\'living\' thing...

June 25th, 2021 05:21

save me from tomorrow
L. B. Mek said:

\'deep into the heartless epidural of a panasomic dream;
my murdered spine
chocking on the phlem of an unreasonable fog

with a bullfrog cocking its\' weary limbs into the sunset
of a terminal sky
waltz\'s with my cabbage patch doll

and succumbs
to the red clay charms
of an adolescent tide\'..
Seriously, in all seriousness: behold, this surreal beauty
of Poetic talent\'s vehemence, in its undiluted Brilliance!

June 24th, 2021 04:04

A Caterpillar Rainbow
L. B. Mek said:

Brilliant!
what a talent you were gifted

June 22nd, 2021 03:52

when jesus stole my avocados\' brain
Saxon Crow said:

Like this one Mel. Very cool

June 20th, 2021 02:03

who knows to where the ark will sail
L. B. Mek said:

\'benign
but with a cancerous intent
of weaving a blue water stitch;

the rainbow
with a mole brain planting its\' roots
into the crevis of a secret den

when will the covid brain: enlighten\'

June 15th, 2021 04:51

in love with a laughing hyena
aDarkerMind said:

thank you for my birthday wishes L B Mek;
as for my being a broken person..no;
I simlply choose to write with a mind that forever questions not what is right, but what is accepted as being right, ignoring those who have a different view on life;
I dont find a rainbow fascinating, but I do ask, when a man falls in love with a drag queen bingo caller, he gets castrated!
isnt that also a wonderful thing?
two people falling in love;
yes, I view the world through miserable eyes.
but one thing I will not do;
is write only to please the eyes of those of read what I write;\'
as I said before, my mind rules my pen, and that is what I must live with;



June 14th, 2021 12:21

in love with a laughing hyena
L. B. Mek said:

Happy Birthday dear Poet,
(what can I do, you may choose
to be prejudicial against those of my pigment of skin
but still, I affirm my choice to recognise
you: for the poetry,
than the broken person, you so fervently
project yourself to be)
\'bingo callers long lost need for steam\', eh? lol
this be that: \'word picture\' they talk about
words and lines imbued with such distinct clarity
even that manufactured, 4th dimensionality
of immersivity, miraged - pixel perfection
can ever: come close to imitating

June 14th, 2021 05:32

in a petit pois mood on the surface of a scar
L. B. Mek said:

\'kisses for a bootleg wine
that pours
through the pors of inflamable plastic macks

high on chicken wire
as the tonsils love
breaks wind and answers back;

deep inside the eyes of a pancreas delight
scented sugar cubes overpower
the flowering peppers overindulgent scream

as a heatwave dangles
its\' treasured hook
into a suffocating light

bondage in a corduroy suit\'

June 11th, 2021 04:30

I am a fetus in a goldfish bowl
L. B. Mek said:

\'with landmine knives
cutting through the bruises on my chin
chocking on loves whispers
as my premature sperm glistens and curtsys
on its\' meeting of precautionary skin;

naked for the threadbare summers raves
a cotton candy dancing on the stomachs of the brave
as a butchers breast drips its\' silk onto the ribs
of a swollen mothers rage;\'
what a cruel society we\'ve curated
to warp such a talent, into a raving monstrosity
clouded in accrued pain-addled, smog
that so few get to appreciate
its threadbare remnant of artistry,
such a waste!
and what a triumph
for the innate nature of creativity
that manages to outshine
all this vitriol excess of hate..
screaming to all: there\'s hope yet
enough at least, to conquer - over
such impotently bleak perceptions
of our commonly shared, existence

June 10th, 2021 03:46

a suicide wind in a cardboard sky
A Boy With Roses said:

The title of this poem paints quite a numb feeling. The Sex Pistols are always great, and Heart of Gold by Neil Young is a staple on my life. He\'s such a cute, genuine man and songwriter.

June 8th, 2021 16:59

a suicide wind in a cardboard sky
Jerry Reynolds said:

Good one, D.M.

June 8th, 2021 13:50

How Fickle The Pickled Rose In Its\' Orchard Grave
L. B. Mek said:

that\'s a very striking image on the video \'cover\':
a skeleton, blackened monkey face
with black gloves and hoody
all within a black n white video...
ok, well I hope
this weaponization of artistry
gives you the world, you want to curate..
I kinds feel, dispirited
once more, at myself
for choosing to believe
there\'s more good than bad
when the abundance of malicious idiocy
tells me different, every gruelling step
of my unwavering climb...
just sad, on so many levels... really


June 8th, 2021 05:45



« Return to the profile of aDarkerMind