Comments received on poems by arqios
to all poets, everywhere
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Yep...and every poet who has gotten one of those bullshit offers knows exactly why this needed saying. I’m with you, Arqios. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 19th, 2026 14:51
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Yep...and every poet who has gotten one of those bullshit offers knows exactly why this needed saying. I’m with you, Arqios. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 19th, 2026 14:51
to all poets, everywhere
orchidee said:
Yes, and that plague-y thing - plagiarising - throws poets into a rage! One person, not on MPS, actually posted a photo of himself while pinching another person\'s words. Responses from poets included F, F, F, and F! (ooh!).
September 19th, 2026 09:59
orchidee said:
Yes, and that plague-y thing - plagiarising - throws poets into a rage! One person, not on MPS, actually posted a photo of himself while pinching another person\'s words. Responses from poets included F, F, F, and F! (ooh!).
September 19th, 2026 09:59
to all poets, everywhere
Jerry Reynolds said:
A fine write, with a Saturday morning coffee.
September 19th, 2026 09:44
Jerry Reynolds said:
A fine write, with a Saturday morning coffee.
September 19th, 2026 09:44
to all poets, everywhere
sorenbarrett said:
I have had lines stolen but never a penny was made that I am aware of. Possibly due to stealing from a garbage heap rends little in return. Never the less it does at times irk while at others one has to feel flattered that someone would steal. It implies value and strokes the ego. This poem points the ink stained finger at those that would profit off of another\'s work. The music industry is famous for this or rather I should say infamous. It is the flaw in capitalism hit with the hammer and wedge of greed. I love the line \"a fight to own what is made of breath and ink\". Nicely done my friend.
September 19th, 2026 07:36
sorenbarrett said:
I have had lines stolen but never a penny was made that I am aware of. Possibly due to stealing from a garbage heap rends little in return. Never the less it does at times irk while at others one has to feel flattered that someone would steal. It implies value and strokes the ego. This poem points the ink stained finger at those that would profit off of another\'s work. The music industry is famous for this or rather I should say infamous. It is the flaw in capitalism hit with the hammer and wedge of greed. I love the line \"a fight to own what is made of breath and ink\". Nicely done my friend.
September 19th, 2026 07:36
to all poets, everywhere
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine Poem . For the Pen is Mightier etc.
Good one.
September 19th, 2026 07:19
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine Poem . For the Pen is Mightier etc.
Good one.
September 19th, 2026 07:19
danchi style
Doggerel Dave said:
Many a glossy observational traveloge does not have the kind of observatioal depth to enrich the experience you have given us here, Rik. Enjoyed thoroughly.
September 18th, 2026 20:00
Doggerel Dave said:
Many a glossy observational traveloge does not have the kind of observatioal depth to enrich the experience you have given us here, Rik. Enjoyed thoroughly.
September 18th, 2026 20:00
danchi style
Kevin Hulme said:
Poems like this take you to another Place or Country without leaving your Chair.
The way other people live. There surroundings etc.
No Air fare needed.
Enjoyed.
September 18th, 2026 19:40
Kevin Hulme said:
Poems like this take you to another Place or Country without leaving your Chair.
The way other people live. There surroundings etc.
No Air fare needed.
Enjoyed.
September 18th, 2026 19:40
danchi style
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That vending machine at the end got me, Arqios...a tiny light holding the whole evening together. Enjoyed this a lot, Rik. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 18th, 2026 10:01
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That vending machine at the end got me, Arqios...a tiny light holding the whole evening together. Enjoyed this a lot, Rik. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 18th, 2026 10:01
danchi style
Paul Bell said:
Always liked the Japanese, they have manners, trains that run on time, and a bit of decorum.
Though I hear the younger generation are becoming westernised and falling about the streets drunk.
It was bound to happen.
September 18th, 2026 09:33
Paul Bell said:
Always liked the Japanese, they have manners, trains that run on time, and a bit of decorum.
Though I hear the younger generation are becoming westernised and falling about the streets drunk.
It was bound to happen.
September 18th, 2026 09:33
danchi style
sorenbarrett said:
Each line an image. A collage. Each image a feeling. Another collage one superimposed on the other and what immerges is nostalgia a savory broth served in a poetic bowel. Nicely done my friend.
September 18th, 2026 08:40
sorenbarrett said:
Each line an image. A collage. Each image a feeling. Another collage one superimposed on the other and what immerges is nostalgia a savory broth served in a poetic bowel. Nicely done my friend.
September 18th, 2026 08:40
Y9
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this made me laugh far more than two characters have any right to. I feel enlightened, confused, and somehow cheated out of a number. Well played, dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2026 10:21
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this made me laugh far more than two characters have any right to. I feel enlightened, confused, and somehow cheated out of a number. Well played, dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2026 10:21
Y9
sorenbarrett said:
Phonetic spelling taken up by some misleads the rest of us old timers frozen and rigid in old ways. I still write in cursive that most new generations can no longer read like hieroglyphics. This one might deem shorthand in a short poem.
September 17th, 2026 04:32
sorenbarrett said:
Phonetic spelling taken up by some misleads the rest of us old timers frozen and rigid in old ways. I still write in cursive that most new generations can no longer read like hieroglyphics. This one might deem shorthand in a short poem.
September 17th, 2026 04:32
Y9
arqios said:
Oh my, it’s looking like one of days. A thousand pardons to all whose susceptibility has been affronted 🙏🏻🕊️
September 17th, 2026 04:11
arqios said:
Oh my, it’s looking like one of days. A thousand pardons to all whose susceptibility has been affronted 🙏🏻🕊️
September 17th, 2026 04:11
over troubled water
Goldfinch60 said:
Sometimes those meetings don\'t come true Rik but those that matter always do.
Andy
September 17th, 2026 00:39
Goldfinch60 said:
Sometimes those meetings don\'t come true Rik but those that matter always do.
Andy
September 17th, 2026 00:39
over troubled water
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this hit me hard. Two people can move toward one another with complete sincerity and still discover that intention alone cannot create connection. Beautiful and devastating work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2026 22:27
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this hit me hard. Two people can move toward one another with complete sincerity and still discover that intention alone cannot create connection. Beautiful and devastating work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2026 22:27
over troubled water
Kevin Hulme said:
Reminds me of \'The Skinny Bridge\' in Amsterdam.
And my favourite all time song : Bridge over Troubled Water. Check out Charlotte Church singing it.
Good Write. With Meaning.
September 16th, 2026 18:25
Kevin Hulme said:
Reminds me of \'The Skinny Bridge\' in Amsterdam.
And my favourite all time song : Bridge over Troubled Water. Check out Charlotte Church singing it.
Good Write. With Meaning.
September 16th, 2026 18:25
over troubled water
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful metaphor of what might be but isn\'t. Misaligned be it structure, conversation, relationship an attempt failed. How many poems have I constructed this way to end in two pieces that never meet. A song where one piece lays itself down over troubled water to form safe passage for a person loved in this case the opposite a trap for the unsuspecting that might fall by following with faith. Well constructed this poem reaches the other side of understanding.
September 16th, 2026 06:54
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful metaphor of what might be but isn\'t. Misaligned be it structure, conversation, relationship an attempt failed. How many poems have I constructed this way to end in two pieces that never meet. A song where one piece lays itself down over troubled water to form safe passage for a person loved in this case the opposite a trap for the unsuspecting that might fall by following with faith. Well constructed this poem reaches the other side of understanding.
September 16th, 2026 06:54
over troubled water
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a deep write my friend, much enjoyed
September 16th, 2026 06:46
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a deep write my friend, much enjoyed
September 16th, 2026 06:46
something you had to earn
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik, we all learn from our lives, it is called experience and it cannot be taught.
Andy
September 16th, 2026 01:20
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik, we all learn from our lives, it is called experience and it cannot be taught.
Andy
September 16th, 2026 01:20
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