Comments received on poems by sorenbarrett
Love and Hate / Heaven and Hell
L. B. Mek said:
such an important question, dear Poet
that\'s why we need time to heal
so that our lessons may be revealed
see,
we start out all love blind
then
we\'re enraged by that hurt
from that blinding broken heart
neither
affording us distance, enough
to verify what we\'re really experiencing
that\'s why, Nietzsche\'s
\'beyond\' good and evil
resonates with me, we need
to find space
to insure we can excavate veracity\'s perspectives
coherent with our actual feelings
and not be beholden
to our reactionary and
self-indulgent, emotions...
I truly believe
only the brave, can love
rest of us, merely try n imitate
romance\'s fantasy playbooks...
(I mean
just look at how many cry crimson tears
after a heartbreak, and yet
fast forward a little, to when someone
new
is by their side, and I bet you
it won\'t take too long
for all that hurt, to feel like a distance past..
so then, which is it
was that person really worth all that pain
or were we just refusing to accept
a truth we dare not face...)
March 31st, 2023 02:57
L. B. Mek said:
such an important question, dear Poet
that\'s why we need time to heal
so that our lessons may be revealed
see,
we start out all love blind
then
we\'re enraged by that hurt
from that blinding broken heart
neither
affording us distance, enough
to verify what we\'re really experiencing
that\'s why, Nietzsche\'s
\'beyond\' good and evil
resonates with me, we need
to find space
to insure we can excavate veracity\'s perspectives
coherent with our actual feelings
and not be beholden
to our reactionary and
self-indulgent, emotions...
I truly believe
only the brave, can love
rest of us, merely try n imitate
romance\'s fantasy playbooks...
(I mean
just look at how many cry crimson tears
after a heartbreak, and yet
fast forward a little, to when someone
new
is by their side, and I bet you
it won\'t take too long
for all that hurt, to feel like a distance past..
so then, which is it
was that person really worth all that pain
or were we just refusing to accept
a truth we dare not face...)
March 31st, 2023 02:57
Lonely
Doggerel Dave said:
\"Who me only?\" is key. A universal condition which most folks work hard to mitigate - quite often with limited success.
March 30th, 2023 19:11
Doggerel Dave said:
\"Who me only?\" is key. A universal condition which most folks work hard to mitigate - quite often with limited success.
March 30th, 2023 19:11
Lonely
sorenbarrett said:
This applies to all no one has anyone outside of themself. Everyone else love as we might are not in the others skin
March 30th, 2023 17:26
sorenbarrett said:
This applies to all no one has anyone outside of themself. Everyone else love as we might are not in the others skin
March 30th, 2023 17:26
Love and Hate / Heaven and Hell
Doggerel Dave said:
Maybe to be \'cool\' is to be free of the kind of love which is an obsession, Soren. However Love can just be an overwhelming care for another and their way in the world, even if that does not mean their exclusive attention to one\'s self.
A neat write about what I consider to be a pathological form of that overused term.
March 28th, 2023 22:06
Doggerel Dave said:
Maybe to be \'cool\' is to be free of the kind of love which is an obsession, Soren. However Love can just be an overwhelming care for another and their way in the world, even if that does not mean their exclusive attention to one\'s self.
A neat write about what I consider to be a pathological form of that overused term.
March 28th, 2023 22:06
Love and Hate / Heaven and Hell
arqios said:
Excellent play Soren. Much food for thought.
March 28th, 2023 17:41
arqios said:
Excellent play Soren. Much food for thought.
March 28th, 2023 17:41
Love and Hate / Heaven and Hell
Bella Shepard said:
I have always heard that there is a fine line between love and hate, two sides of the same face, and could we really have one without the other, or are they dependent upon each other? You pose this question so cleverly dear poet, such a good write.
March 28th, 2023 15:59
Bella Shepard said:
I have always heard that there is a fine line between love and hate, two sides of the same face, and could we really have one without the other, or are they dependent upon each other? You pose this question so cleverly dear poet, such a good write.
March 28th, 2023 15:59
Intersection (a narrative poem)
L. B. Mek said:
I think this needs that 🔞 triggering warning, my friend
(some heavy adult themes)
on a purely literary, perspective
I liked how you imbued suspenseful intensity
in your blunt \'matter of fact\' delivery
a vivid, stark and unashamedly blunt
literary voice
yet, sadly
these fictitious words, can so easily
be someone\'s real life tragedy
...a sobering thought
March 27th, 2023 03:39
L. B. Mek said:
I think this needs that 🔞 triggering warning, my friend
(some heavy adult themes)
on a purely literary, perspective
I liked how you imbued suspenseful intensity
in your blunt \'matter of fact\' delivery
a vivid, stark and unashamedly blunt
literary voice
yet, sadly
these fictitious words, can so easily
be someone\'s real life tragedy
...a sobering thought
March 27th, 2023 03:39
Birth is a suicide mission
Bella Shepard said:
You have captured in this poem, a theme that has of late been more and more upon my aged mind. The work of every day life serves to distract us from our mortality, I think by design. And as we age we find more leisurely distractions to bide our time, but distract ourselves we must. How can we understand the incomprehensible? Perhaps we may find peace in simply accepting. Thank you dear poet for sharing these truly insightful words, you have no idea how deeply they touch.
March 24th, 2023 14:03
Bella Shepard said:
You have captured in this poem, a theme that has of late been more and more upon my aged mind. The work of every day life serves to distract us from our mortality, I think by design. And as we age we find more leisurely distractions to bide our time, but distract ourselves we must. How can we understand the incomprehensible? Perhaps we may find peace in simply accepting. Thank you dear poet for sharing these truly insightful words, you have no idea how deeply they touch.
March 24th, 2023 14:03
Birth is a suicide mission
L. B. Mek said:
a life where we shed, half
our body weight, in skin
while traversing existence;
allowing, another\'s touch
on newborn skin
to affirm our worth
while, destined to a solitary
way of life;
blessed are we, who witness
our callous reality
with heart\'s choosing to smile
ever so defiantly, bright!
be glad
dear Poetic kin
do not despair
for, this breath we live
curates
our universe\'s lullabies...
ain\'t that
a most beautiful
...dream
(Zeitgeist as that Epoch
we unveil
in each, cherished breath)
March 24th, 2023 05:29
L. B. Mek said:
a life where we shed, half
our body weight, in skin
while traversing existence;
allowing, another\'s touch
on newborn skin
to affirm our worth
while, destined to a solitary
way of life;
blessed are we, who witness
our callous reality
with heart\'s choosing to smile
ever so defiantly, bright!
be glad
dear Poetic kin
do not despair
for, this breath we live
curates
our universe\'s lullabies...
ain\'t that
a most beautiful
...dream
(Zeitgeist as that Epoch
we unveil
in each, cherished breath)
March 24th, 2023 05:29
Home
L. B. Mek said:
such a soothing read, dear Poet
(A place to call home
An anchor to house our hope
and a warmth, to carry with us
wherever our hearts, may roam...)
March 24th, 2023 05:07
L. B. Mek said:
such a soothing read, dear Poet
(A place to call home
An anchor to house our hope
and a warmth, to carry with us
wherever our hearts, may roam...)
March 24th, 2023 05:07
Home
arqios said:
Such is home and home it seems shall always be! Thanks Soren.
March 21st, 2023 09:35
arqios said:
Such is home and home it seems shall always be! Thanks Soren.
March 21st, 2023 09:35
Fear of not knowing
L. B. Mek said:
\'Through blind eyes I see the invisible
Truth I hear through a deaf ear
Sensations of logic inexplicable\'
explaining feelings, as like
defining perspectives
betwixt blinks we swerve reality\'s
one moment\'s monumental
is but a forgotten blink\'s, trivial
yet we seek anchors to meaning
aspire to comprehend
ephemeral happiness
within a lifetime of strife, asking
why?
screeching our rage from that first
breath
I think
it all begins, with our misunderstanding
of procreating\'s, purpose
we give exams to people, to drive cars
yet anyone can have a child, and dumb it in the bin...
we fail to comprehend
it is not a child
but a Person, we\'re taking responsibility for
an entire living breathing human being
destined to mark humanity with their deeds, or lack there of..
tell me friend
what business de we have bringing a child
into a world, if we never had parents
to teach us and show us what to do
modernity has warped into a cynical degradation
where parentless children, birth
parentless children
assuming love and Mac\'d happy meals
is enough, to curate a person...
used to be, everyone knew
\'it takes a village to raise a child\'
so now we\'re left to path a life, where:
\'Feelings of wellness I fear\'
depending on flags, idealistic politics and hollow beliefs
to curate our anchor to meaning and worth...
how futile? to what end?
every one of us, every one
learned cruelty from those, we\'re told
know, what is best for us...
better, I think
to realise as early as we can
in this river of life, we pebbles
swim alone
whatever aesthetics, we identify with
what\'s inevitable
is that we all bleed, one colour
and cry the same tears
anything and everything that opposes
that Truism of existence, we must refute!
March 21st, 2023 03:07
L. B. Mek said:
\'Through blind eyes I see the invisible
Truth I hear through a deaf ear
Sensations of logic inexplicable\'
explaining feelings, as like
defining perspectives
betwixt blinks we swerve reality\'s
one moment\'s monumental
is but a forgotten blink\'s, trivial
yet we seek anchors to meaning
aspire to comprehend
ephemeral happiness
within a lifetime of strife, asking
why?
screeching our rage from that first
breath
I think
it all begins, with our misunderstanding
of procreating\'s, purpose
we give exams to people, to drive cars
yet anyone can have a child, and dumb it in the bin...
we fail to comprehend
it is not a child
but a Person, we\'re taking responsibility for
an entire living breathing human being
destined to mark humanity with their deeds, or lack there of..
tell me friend
what business de we have bringing a child
into a world, if we never had parents
to teach us and show us what to do
modernity has warped into a cynical degradation
where parentless children, birth
parentless children
assuming love and Mac\'d happy meals
is enough, to curate a person...
used to be, everyone knew
\'it takes a village to raise a child\'
so now we\'re left to path a life, where:
\'Feelings of wellness I fear\'
depending on flags, idealistic politics and hollow beliefs
to curate our anchor to meaning and worth...
how futile? to what end?
every one of us, every one
learned cruelty from those, we\'re told
know, what is best for us...
better, I think
to realise as early as we can
in this river of life, we pebbles
swim alone
whatever aesthetics, we identify with
what\'s inevitable
is that we all bleed, one colour
and cry the same tears
anything and everything that opposes
that Truism of existence, we must refute!
March 21st, 2023 03:07
Fear of not knowing
Bella Shepard said:
I think dear friend that each day is an exercise in dispelling our fear of life, by virtue of the distractions we invent. We create our own reality without the benefit of understanding the consequences. I sometimes wonder if our evolution has fallen short, or if our biological thinking apparatus has reached its limit. This poem dives deep and I love it!
March 20th, 2023 13:43
Bella Shepard said:
I think dear friend that each day is an exercise in dispelling our fear of life, by virtue of the distractions we invent. We create our own reality without the benefit of understanding the consequences. I sometimes wonder if our evolution has fallen short, or if our biological thinking apparatus has reached its limit. This poem dives deep and I love it!
March 20th, 2023 13:43
Fear of not knowing
Doggerel Dave said:
I’ve always taken the view that my reality is subject to many factors, including but not exclusively my size, senses and unconscious choices I make with respect to the information I choose to take or exclude.
You have poetically given that more depth, Soren. Thanks.
March 19th, 2023 17:52
Doggerel Dave said:
I’ve always taken the view that my reality is subject to many factors, including but not exclusively my size, senses and unconscious choices I make with respect to the information I choose to take or exclude.
You have poetically given that more depth, Soren. Thanks.
March 19th, 2023 17:52
Change
L. B. Mek said:
forgive me my friend
reading your acute wording of a struggle
I relate with, easily
I couldn\'t help inking a l little poetic reply
(a gradual, graduation
is never deemed admirable
by a society driven, by a mindset of
\'what have you done for me lately\'
yet, still
some of us, take a while
to recalibrate our way of being
trying to insure, those we appreciate
stay by our side
yet, by the time we arrive
life\'s moved on
stranded, we begin to question
did we change for no reason?
for ourselves?
or was this how it was always supposed to be?
us changing, gradually
while things around us
fast-forward, relentlessly
do we continue to chase
or relent and accept
try as we might, we may never be cut out
for those regular highways of life
so maybe
we need to seek, alternative routes
allowing us time to admire life\'s scenic highlights)
March 17th, 2023 04:40
L. B. Mek said:
forgive me my friend
reading your acute wording of a struggle
I relate with, easily
I couldn\'t help inking a l little poetic reply
(a gradual, graduation
is never deemed admirable
by a society driven, by a mindset of
\'what have you done for me lately\'
yet, still
some of us, take a while
to recalibrate our way of being
trying to insure, those we appreciate
stay by our side
yet, by the time we arrive
life\'s moved on
stranded, we begin to question
did we change for no reason?
for ourselves?
or was this how it was always supposed to be?
us changing, gradually
while things around us
fast-forward, relentlessly
do we continue to chase
or relent and accept
try as we might, we may never be cut out
for those regular highways of life
so maybe
we need to seek, alternative routes
allowing us time to admire life\'s scenic highlights)
March 17th, 2023 04:40
In God we trust
L. B. Mek said:
there are \'start-up\' churches for Pets, nowadays...
enough said, lol
a fun read, dear Poet
indeed
money has a way of warping things, still
places of worship will always have the most refurbished buildings
that\'s good for the economy, at least..
keeping it fun is how to traverse
those diabolical elements of society
March 17th, 2023 04:26
L. B. Mek said:
there are \'start-up\' churches for Pets, nowadays...
enough said, lol
a fun read, dear Poet
indeed
money has a way of warping things, still
places of worship will always have the most refurbished buildings
that\'s good for the economy, at least..
keeping it fun is how to traverse
those diabolical elements of society
March 17th, 2023 04:26
Dharma
L. B. Mek said:
(A worthy path as any, to accumulate
and manifest, an enlightened state..
I too believe in our karmatic footprints
Devoid of dogmatic limitations
in our interpretations,
we can choose
to invest in actions, without
being dependant on outcomes
to validate, worth...)
I like the philosophical tilt, to your words
that are anchored upon a life of faith
in those choices we make..
an empowering perspective and a lovely read, dear Poet
March 17th, 2023 04:17
L. B. Mek said:
(A worthy path as any, to accumulate
and manifest, an enlightened state..
I too believe in our karmatic footprints
Devoid of dogmatic limitations
in our interpretations,
we can choose
to invest in actions, without
being dependant on outcomes
to validate, worth...)
I like the philosophical tilt, to your words
that are anchored upon a life of faith
in those choices we make..
an empowering perspective and a lovely read, dear Poet
March 17th, 2023 04:17
In God we trust
orchidee said:
Soooo....... was I right?
I left one church partly due to money matters.
A friend has just left a church of the same denomination, as they got greedy for cash.
March 15th, 2023 03:20
orchidee said:
Soooo....... was I right?
I left one church partly due to money matters.
A friend has just left a church of the same denomination, as they got greedy for cash.
March 15th, 2023 03:20
In God we trust
orchidee said:
Why yes, some places this is true.
You\'ll get \'The Lord will provide\'. Yep, from OUR pockets, as they keep nagging us for more cash.
A church took on some students as \'official\' members, with a secret rubbing hands together in glee, behind the scenes, I expect. Now, when have students ever had lots of money? Doh!
March 15th, 2023 03:18
orchidee said:
Why yes, some places this is true.
You\'ll get \'The Lord will provide\'. Yep, from OUR pockets, as they keep nagging us for more cash.
A church took on some students as \'official\' members, with a secret rubbing hands together in glee, behind the scenes, I expect. Now, when have students ever had lots of money? Doh!
March 15th, 2023 03:18
In God we trust
Doggerel Dave said:
I\'m not defending the buggers, I am after all an atheist and agnostic. But all I can add is that there are rogues and villains in every corner and strata of society all institutions as well, plus the good \'uns.
Notice on wall of a motor cycle shop populated by big boofy characters:
\"In God we trust - Others cash\"
All the same, a very enjoyable read, Soren. Good laugh.
March 15th, 2023 00:31
Doggerel Dave said:
I\'m not defending the buggers, I am after all an atheist and agnostic. But all I can add is that there are rogues and villains in every corner and strata of society all institutions as well, plus the good \'uns.
Notice on wall of a motor cycle shop populated by big boofy characters:
\"In God we trust - Others cash\"
All the same, a very enjoyable read, Soren. Good laugh.
March 15th, 2023 00:31
In God we trust
Ok Waleed said:
Have you been to any other religious buildings
March 14th, 2023 23:06
Ok Waleed said:
Have you been to any other religious buildings
March 14th, 2023 23:06
Dharma
Bella Shepard said:
I love the lines \"freedom comes through action, its outcome should not be deliberated\". In this age of \"me\", can we find the path to selfless giving? The truth and wisdom of you words brings a lump to my throat dear poet. Superbly written!
March 14th, 2023 14:19
Bella Shepard said:
I love the lines \"freedom comes through action, its outcome should not be deliberated\". In this age of \"me\", can we find the path to selfless giving? The truth and wisdom of you words brings a lump to my throat dear poet. Superbly written!
March 14th, 2023 14:19
Dharma
Doggerel Dave said:
By the time I\'ve worked this one out (if indeed I ever do) then I must surely at least be in the vicinity of enlightenment??
(T\'was the bee and karma yoga which sent me off on the wrong track, I think Soren........)
March 13th, 2023 08:14
Doggerel Dave said:
By the time I\'ve worked this one out (if indeed I ever do) then I must surely at least be in the vicinity of enlightenment??
(T\'was the bee and karma yoga which sent me off on the wrong track, I think Soren........)
March 13th, 2023 08:14
The spot on the wall
L. B. Mek said:
Brilliant!
\'Like a Rorschach card it would project
One\'s soul, that one tries to protect
With brushes and soap we tried to erase
The vestiges of this Mephistophelian face
But with each intrepid try
Darker would become the demonic dye
When to the spot people grew near
From its look they would turn in fear\'
March 13th, 2023 03:38
L. B. Mek said:
Brilliant!
\'Like a Rorschach card it would project
One\'s soul, that one tries to protect
With brushes and soap we tried to erase
The vestiges of this Mephistophelian face
But with each intrepid try
Darker would become the demonic dye
When to the spot people grew near
From its look they would turn in fear\'
March 13th, 2023 03:38
The spot on the wall
sorenbarrett said:
Thanks Dave the thought had passed my mind. Rented a room to a church once that were selling land in heaven and if one did not have enough money to buy a plot they would sell you a chair. All the good thoughts are already taken.
March 11th, 2023 06:12
sorenbarrett said:
Thanks Dave the thought had passed my mind. Rented a room to a church once that were selling land in heaven and if one did not have enough money to buy a plot they would sell you a chair. All the good thoughts are already taken.
March 11th, 2023 06:12
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