Comments received on poems by arqios
knocking on your door
Salvia.S said:
Powerful and haunting, especially that ending about unreachable ghosts.
October 24th, 2026 19:27
Salvia.S said:
Powerful and haunting, especially that ending about unreachable ghosts.
October 24th, 2026 19:27
knocking on your door
Kevin Hulme said:
Reruns and Remakes. Like the Past replaying and wanting it all to Happen again . But now forever lost.
October 24th, 2026 19:08
Kevin Hulme said:
Reruns and Remakes. Like the Past replaying and wanting it all to Happen again . But now forever lost.
October 24th, 2026 19:08
confronted history
NafisaSB said:
Strikes a chord with me. It is the thinker who expressed dismay at the state of the world- then and now
October 24th, 2026 11:45
NafisaSB said:
Strikes a chord with me. It is the thinker who expressed dismay at the state of the world- then and now
October 24th, 2026 11:45
knocking on your door
Tristan Robert Lange said:
There\'s something particularly painful about wanting to reconnect but not knowing whether that possibility still exists, Rik. Life has a way of leaving us with questions that nobody else can answer. Sending you warmth, my friend. š¤šÆļøšš
October 24th, 2026 10:51
Tristan Robert Lange said:
There\'s something particularly painful about wanting to reconnect but not knowing whether that possibility still exists, Rik. Life has a way of leaving us with questions that nobody else can answer. Sending you warmth, my friend. š¤šÆļøšš
October 24th, 2026 10:51
knocking on your door
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
I agree with previous, in tension time slows down
October 24th, 2026 07:14
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
I agree with previous, in tension time slows down
October 24th, 2026 07:14
knocking on your door
sorenbarrett said:
This seems to me a tense moment where everything gos into slow motion, the tension slows the clock. Or maybe it is a memory of a tense time in the past or a metaphor of knocking on the door of someone\'s heart that one wished would open but may be shut or nobody home and the fear that no one will answer. Then again given the season a memory of trick or treating. Any way you look at it, it holds tension. Well done my friend
October 24th, 2026 05:29
sorenbarrett said:
This seems to me a tense moment where everything gos into slow motion, the tension slows the clock. Or maybe it is a memory of a tense time in the past or a metaphor of knocking on the door of someone\'s heart that one wished would open but may be shut or nobody home and the fear that no one will answer. Then again given the season a memory of trick or treating. Any way you look at it, it holds tension. Well done my friend
October 24th, 2026 05:29
confronted history
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik but history has always been told by the winners, what if the losers were right?
Andy
October 24th, 2026 01:12
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik but history has always been told by the winners, what if the losers were right?
Andy
October 24th, 2026 01:12
confronted history
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Iām with you, Rik...I want to read the poets who made people uncomfortable in their own time. And I hope I have the nerve to keep doing that in mine. š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 23rd, 2026 17:42
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Iām with you, Rik...I want to read the poets who made people uncomfortable in their own time. And I hope I have the nerve to keep doing that in mine. š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 23rd, 2026 17:42
confronted history
Kevin Hulme said:
I\'ve always said . If you want to know what the Future holds: look at the Past.
Well said.
October 23rd, 2026 09:56
Kevin Hulme said:
I\'ve always said . If you want to know what the Future holds: look at the Past.
Well said.
October 23rd, 2026 09:56
confronted history
orchidee said:
Yes- plagiarising poets will be in the firing line! Argh!
October 23rd, 2026 09:47
orchidee said:
Yes- plagiarising poets will be in the firing line! Argh!
October 23rd, 2026 09:47
confronted history
Mutley Ravishes said:
Is the wheat forever being separated from the chaff? Just what is going on here? (Got a rhyme in the pipeline, Arqios! No that it \"answers\" anything.) Great write, my friend!
October 23rd, 2026 07:12
Mutley Ravishes said:
Is the wheat forever being separated from the chaff? Just what is going on here? (Got a rhyme in the pipeline, Arqios! No that it \"answers\" anything.) Great write, my friend!
October 23rd, 2026 07:12
confronted history
sorenbarrett said:
Tis true words filter through the rock and seep to wells deep below. Until man has a social revolution equal to his technological we will continue a brute species where our capability to inflict damage excels our ability to do good. Humanity has long been in wait of a paradigm shift toward unity and love.
October 23rd, 2026 06:20
sorenbarrett said:
Tis true words filter through the rock and seep to wells deep below. Until man has a social revolution equal to his technological we will continue a brute species where our capability to inflict damage excels our ability to do good. Humanity has long been in wait of a paradigm shift toward unity and love.
October 23rd, 2026 06:20
confronted history
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
good write my friend, mans inhumanity
October 23rd, 2026 06:11
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
good write my friend, mans inhumanity
October 23rd, 2026 06:11
undeliverable
Goldfinch60 said:
Those thoughts will one day arise into words Rik.
Andy
October 23rd, 2026 01:24
Goldfinch60 said:
Those thoughts will one day arise into words Rik.
Andy
October 23rd, 2026 01:24
undeliverable
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Damn, Rik! Four short lines, and now I\'m contemplating an entire lifetime of unfinished business! LOL! I suppose that\'s what I get for opening one of your poems before I\'ve finished my coffee. Well done, my friend! š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 22nd, 2026 17:34
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Damn, Rik! Four short lines, and now I\'m contemplating an entire lifetime of unfinished business! LOL! I suppose that\'s what I get for opening one of your poems before I\'ve finished my coffee. Well done, my friend! š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 22nd, 2026 17:34
an evening prayer
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, you\'ve certainly given my brain a workout with this one! LOL! I love a good paradox, especially when it challenges what we take for granted. That business about striking at a cloudless sky got me thinking. What exactly are we fighting when there\'s nothing there to fight? Quite the question, my friend! š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 22nd, 2026 17:10
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, you\'ve certainly given my brain a workout with this one! LOL! I love a good paradox, especially when it challenges what we take for granted. That business about striking at a cloudless sky got me thinking. What exactly are we fighting when there\'s nothing there to fight? Quite the question, my friend! š¹š¤ššÆļøš¦āā¬
October 22nd, 2026 17:10
undeliverable
Novaselic said:
iām not going to lie, i feel like this hits close to home for me. beautifully written
October 22nd, 2026 09:58
Novaselic said:
iām not going to lie, i feel like this hits close to home for me. beautifully written
October 22nd, 2026 09:58
undeliverable
Kevin Hulme said:
Yes . I have a few of these Items lying around.
Never know if to discard or Keep.
Well said.
October 22nd, 2026 07:44
Kevin Hulme said:
Yes . I have a few of these Items lying around.
Never know if to discard or Keep.
Well said.
October 22nd, 2026 07:44
undeliverable
sorenbarrett said:
I have so many of these discarded ideas, starts to poems never finished, phrases without a finishing line, sentences without a following thought all stuffed away with not only dust but cobwebs and spiders guarding. Even the string is rotting. A great short Cryptic
October 22nd, 2026 07:28
sorenbarrett said:
I have so many of these discarded ideas, starts to poems never finished, phrases without a finishing line, sentences without a following thought all stuffed away with not only dust but cobwebs and spiders guarding. Even the string is rotting. A great short Cryptic
October 22nd, 2026 07:28
undeliverable
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
Upon unread paper, good write friend
October 22nd, 2026 05:14
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
Upon unread paper, good write friend
October 22nd, 2026 05:14
an evening prayer
RSM0812 said:
Unknown future dwell in human nature. I enjoyed this āļø.
October 21st, 2026 12:57
RSM0812 said:
Unknown future dwell in human nature. I enjoyed this āļø.
October 21st, 2026 12:57
an evening prayer
orchidee said:
Good write A. I doubt I will understand any semantic paradoxes! lol.
October 21st, 2026 09:07
orchidee said:
Good write A. I doubt I will understand any semantic paradoxes! lol.
October 21st, 2026 09:07
an evening prayer
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
A dream like sequence to this piece my friend, much enjoyed
October 21st, 2026 06:29
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
A dream like sequence to this piece my friend, much enjoyed
October 21st, 2026 06:29
an evening prayer
sorenbarrett said:
A quiet and calming poem yet action is implied. And what action how does one fly and float in drifts how does one brandish but a hilt and harder yet strike the sky ( I suppose if one is pedantic all about us is sky, anything above the ground). If one is in the shadows whispering it is for a hidden reason to come out of them is to be seen. Yet all this seems sleep oriented, flying in drifts, striking the sky dream like fantasies, to come out of the shadows but to come out of sleep where one hears reality better (possibly). Leaving one\'s shoes on is to but nap not sleep and as for yesterday hiding today that is in dreams. Yet there seems another meaning here in the very format the steplike single worded preceding lines. Away, go, back, come, leave, alone, today. The process of dreams and sleep that comes and goes today could be the awakening for one always awakens to today. It seems a poem within a poem a double helix so to speak one corresponding to another. Very creative and nice Cryptic
October 21st, 2026 05:48
sorenbarrett said:
A quiet and calming poem yet action is implied. And what action how does one fly and float in drifts how does one brandish but a hilt and harder yet strike the sky ( I suppose if one is pedantic all about us is sky, anything above the ground). If one is in the shadows whispering it is for a hidden reason to come out of them is to be seen. Yet all this seems sleep oriented, flying in drifts, striking the sky dream like fantasies, to come out of the shadows but to come out of sleep where one hears reality better (possibly). Leaving one\'s shoes on is to but nap not sleep and as for yesterday hiding today that is in dreams. Yet there seems another meaning here in the very format the steplike single worded preceding lines. Away, go, back, come, leave, alone, today. The process of dreams and sleep that comes and goes today could be the awakening for one always awakens to today. It seems a poem within a poem a double helix so to speak one corresponding to another. Very creative and nice Cryptic
October 21st, 2026 05:48
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