Comments received on poems by arqios
a poetic lullaby
Jerry Reynolds said:
Good write, arqios. Great illustration. I am never quite sure, though I try, if every word earned its way into a poem.
August 11th, 2025 07:10
Jerry Reynolds said:
Good write, arqios. Great illustration. I am never quite sure, though I try, if every word earned its way into a poem.
August 11th, 2025 07:10
a poetic lullaby
arqios said:
A midnight desk, a restless pen, and the ache of chasing brilliance that always seems just out of reach. In this intimate, self‑aware lullaby, the speaker wrestles with envy, artistry, and the fragile hope that tomorrow’s line will finally sing. It’s a quiet confession for anyone who’s ever loved the craft enough to lose sleep over it.
August 11th, 2025 04:24
arqios said:
A midnight desk, a restless pen, and the ache of chasing brilliance that always seems just out of reach. In this intimate, self‑aware lullaby, the speaker wrestles with envy, artistry, and the fragile hope that tomorrow’s line will finally sing. It’s a quiet confession for anyone who’s ever loved the craft enough to lose sleep over it.
August 11th, 2025 04:24
a poetic lullaby
sorenbarrett said:
The birth of a poem can be a difficult process its inception a seductive process where and orgasm of thought plants seeds that germinate in the womb, some prematurely aborted. The growing fetus develops and is often birthed in travail. A process where the poet mother guards her offspring against attack and proudly displays it in public despite how ugly it may be always loved by its mother. Sorry for the ramble Cryptic your poem just brought this to mind. I identify with the process even though mine is a bit different it is similar enough.
August 11th, 2025 04:19
sorenbarrett said:
The birth of a poem can be a difficult process its inception a seductive process where and orgasm of thought plants seeds that germinate in the womb, some prematurely aborted. The growing fetus develops and is often birthed in travail. A process where the poet mother guards her offspring against attack and proudly displays it in public despite how ugly it may be always loved by its mother. Sorry for the ramble Cryptic your poem just brought this to mind. I identify with the process even though mine is a bit different it is similar enough.
August 11th, 2025 04:19
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
Goldfinch60 said:
Each moment is our real life arqios.
Andy
August 11th, 2025 01:47
Goldfinch60 said:
Each moment is our real life arqios.
Andy
August 11th, 2025 01:47
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
Bella Shepard said:
How beautiful the sentiment of this poem, to enjoy simply being, and the last line, priceless!
August 10th, 2025 09:42
Bella Shepard said:
How beautiful the sentiment of this poem, to enjoy simply being, and the last line, priceless!
August 10th, 2025 09:42
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this breathes fresh air right through the screen to a guy in need of it. 🤣 The “pixel-free grace” and sunrise as its own push notification…that’s a reset we could all use. You’ve captured the joy of unplugging beautifully, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 10th, 2025 08:09
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this breathes fresh air right through the screen to a guy in need of it. 🤣 The “pixel-free grace” and sunrise as its own push notification…that’s a reset we could all use. You’ve captured the joy of unplugging beautifully, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 10th, 2025 08:09
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
arqios said:
This poem invites readers into a world where digital silence awakens real-time wonder. No spoilers; just a moment of reflection, set against the glow of a screenless morning.
Step into the poem and let it stir your thoughts: What happens when the world becomes our interface?
August 10th, 2025 07:41
arqios said:
This poem invites readers into a world where digital silence awakens real-time wonder. No spoilers; just a moment of reflection, set against the glow of a screenless morning.
Step into the poem and let it stir your thoughts: What happens when the world becomes our interface?
August 10th, 2025 07:41
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
Poetic Licence said:
We cannot improve the beauty of natural nature, although there are those who would like to try, lovely read, enjoyed
August 10th, 2025 07:21
Poetic Licence said:
We cannot improve the beauty of natural nature, although there are those who would like to try, lovely read, enjoyed
August 10th, 2025 07:21
Sunday Fun-Day: \"Dawn\"
sorenbarrett said:
A great contrast made here it paints a life that ends in created fantasy become reality and begins anew in nature\'s reality. What is it about natural spender that we think that we can improve upon it? Nicely done Cryptic
August 10th, 2025 04:08
sorenbarrett said:
A great contrast made here it paints a life that ends in created fantasy become reality and begins anew in nature\'s reality. What is it about natural spender that we think that we can improve upon it? Nicely done Cryptic
August 10th, 2025 04:08
\"flight mode\"
arqios said:
Here\'s a response to the poem from a fellow poet on another site: \"Good morning Red,
I read “flight mode” as a contrast between the blur of upward striving—whether in tech, status, or escape—and the clarity that comes from turning inward and moving through experience instead of above it. The Juno reference sharpens that: she’s not just anyone sitting still, but a figure of power choosing descent over distance, trading Olympian altitude for human closeness. That choice reframes “flight” as immersion, not avoidance—a kind of sovereignty that learns more from presence than from height. It leaves me thinking that sometimes the truest movement isn’t in climbing higher, but in daring to go deeper. Great lines!
Regards,
Rolph\"
August 10th, 2025 02:28
arqios said:
Here\'s a response to the poem from a fellow poet on another site: \"Good morning Red,
I read “flight mode” as a contrast between the blur of upward striving—whether in tech, status, or escape—and the clarity that comes from turning inward and moving through experience instead of above it. The Juno reference sharpens that: she’s not just anyone sitting still, but a figure of power choosing descent over distance, trading Olympian altitude for human closeness. That choice reframes “flight” as immersion, not avoidance—a kind of sovereignty that learns more from presence than from height. It leaves me thinking that sometimes the truest movement isn’t in climbing higher, but in daring to go deeper. Great lines!
Regards,
Rolph\"
August 10th, 2025 02:28
\"flight mode\"
Goldfinch60 said:
That Spirit flowa through us all forever arqios.
Andy
August 10th, 2025 01:25
Goldfinch60 said:
That Spirit flowa through us all forever arqios.
Andy
August 10th, 2025 01:25
\"flight mode\"
Friendship said:
The poem aims to provoke thought about the nature of ambition and self-discovery, encouraging readers to consider the value of introspection over mere achievement. It also invites reflection on their own \"flight mode\" and the balance between striving for success and understanding oneself.
August 9th, 2025 07:18
Friendship said:
The poem aims to provoke thought about the nature of ambition and self-discovery, encouraging readers to consider the value of introspection over mere achievement. It also invites reflection on their own \"flight mode\" and the balance between striving for success and understanding oneself.
August 9th, 2025 07:18
\"flight mode\"
arqios said:
Perhaps it allows us to reconsider our definitions of success. It could also suggest that the metrics we chase: followers, titles, likes, often leave us bewildered and empty. Maybe, embracing deliberate descent: pausing, listening, mapping our own yearnings, we discover the pulse that truly propels us. Real elevation may arise not from external vantage points but from navigating the secret terrain of the self. Just one of many points of view...
August 9th, 2025 06:48
arqios said:
Perhaps it allows us to reconsider our definitions of success. It could also suggest that the metrics we chase: followers, titles, likes, often leave us bewildered and empty. Maybe, embracing deliberate descent: pausing, listening, mapping our own yearnings, we discover the pulse that truly propels us. Real elevation may arise not from external vantage points but from navigating the secret terrain of the self. Just one of many points of view...
August 9th, 2025 06:48
\"flight mode\"
Jerry Reynolds said:
Good write, arqios. A lot of directions to go here.
August 9th, 2025 06:07
Jerry Reynolds said:
Good write, arqios. A lot of directions to go here.
August 9th, 2025 06:07
\"flight mode\"
Poetic Licence said:
This is a teaser I am going to have to work on, flight mode to me refers to always running away as opposed to going forward, a lovely gentle read for the weekend
August 9th, 2025 05:16
Poetic Licence said:
This is a teaser I am going to have to work on, flight mode to me refers to always running away as opposed to going forward, a lovely gentle read for the weekend
August 9th, 2025 05:16
\"flight mode\"
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic are you referring to Juno e-mail? or is it the Roman goddess of marriage? or the space probe that orbited Jupiter in 2016? Got my mind working here.
August 9th, 2025 03:55
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic are you referring to Juno e-mail? or is it the Roman goddess of marriage? or the space probe that orbited Jupiter in 2016? Got my mind working here.
August 9th, 2025 03:55
\"where we come from\"
Goldfinch60 said:
Many messages within these fine words arqios.
Andy
August 9th, 2025 01:27
Goldfinch60 said:
Many messages within these fine words arqios.
Andy
August 9th, 2025 01:27
\"where we come from\"
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this is rich with nostalgia...but sharpened by truth. You’ve caught that mix of innocence and quiet manipulation that lives in those teenage games...don\'t we all know. 😏 The bottle wasn’t chance—it was choice, and you nailed that unspoken reality. Beautifully crafted, my dear friend. Hope all has been well while I\'ve been gone. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 8th, 2025 19:38
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this is rich with nostalgia...but sharpened by truth. You’ve caught that mix of innocence and quiet manipulation that lives in those teenage games...don\'t we all know. 😏 The bottle wasn’t chance—it was choice, and you nailed that unspoken reality. Beautifully crafted, my dear friend. Hope all has been well while I\'ve been gone. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 8th, 2025 19:38
\"where we come from\"
Neville said:
ah\' the games we play and the outcomes we spin on .. in a world that is becoming increasingly more less punctuated nearly everything almost is not what it at first might seem to be probably .. its the searching wot is most fun and then the findings become almost irrelevant .. I thought this was pretty cool
August 8th, 2025 12:18
Neville said:
ah\' the games we play and the outcomes we spin on .. in a world that is becoming increasingly more less punctuated nearly everything almost is not what it at first might seem to be probably .. its the searching wot is most fun and then the findings become almost irrelevant .. I thought this was pretty cool
August 8th, 2025 12:18
\"where we come from\"
orchidee said:
Doh! I\'m unlikely to get to the deeper layers. Well, do a bit of thinking then, says Fido to me!
I\'m the guy who spun the Russian Roulette gun and thought we had to leave ONE chamber empty. Oh dear! lol.
August 8th, 2025 10:01
orchidee said:
Doh! I\'m unlikely to get to the deeper layers. Well, do a bit of thinking then, says Fido to me!
I\'m the guy who spun the Russian Roulette gun and thought we had to leave ONE chamber empty. Oh dear! lol.
August 8th, 2025 10:01
\"where we come from\"
Poetic Licence said:
We played this in some of the homes I was in, sometimes for fun other times with a more worrying reason. Sometimes the consequences where horrible, damaging and far reaching, for some the effects were felt long into adult hood, nicely crafted write
August 8th, 2025 05:18
Poetic Licence said:
We played this in some of the homes I was in, sometimes for fun other times with a more worrying reason. Sometimes the consequences where horrible, damaging and far reaching, for some the effects were felt long into adult hood, nicely crafted write
August 8th, 2025 05:18
\"where we come from\"
sorenbarrett said:
Several readings and several takes. Layered metaphor where an innocent game becomes much more. The authors note a clever means of introducing deeper meaning that I did not catch on first reading. Destiny and free will involved in that spin and to see which would win. It might as well have been roulette of the far eastern variety. A very clever write that despite the losses of youth commands a strong air of nostalgia with its melancholy
August 8th, 2025 04:25
sorenbarrett said:
Several readings and several takes. Layered metaphor where an innocent game becomes much more. The authors note a clever means of introducing deeper meaning that I did not catch on first reading. Destiny and free will involved in that spin and to see which would win. It might as well have been roulette of the far eastern variety. A very clever write that despite the losses of youth commands a strong air of nostalgia with its melancholy
August 8th, 2025 04:25
\"before the next breath\"
orchidee said:
Good writes A. I don\'t know which I prefer. As you mention breath, I been busy doing the not breathing for 24 hours thingy. Gotta save air somehow, but I don\'t feel well after the 24 hours is up. heehee.
August 7th, 2025 09:38
orchidee said:
Good writes A. I don\'t know which I prefer. As you mention breath, I been busy doing the not breathing for 24 hours thingy. Gotta save air somehow, but I don\'t feel well after the 24 hours is up. heehee.
August 7th, 2025 09:38
\"before the next breath\"
2781 said:
I\'m not sure- I hope it\'s worth the ping!
August 7th, 2025 06:33
2781 said:
I\'m not sure- I hope it\'s worth the ping!
August 7th, 2025 06:33
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