Comments received on poems by arqios
in the quiet tide
Bella Shepard said:
I love reading this poem aloud, with its gentle phrasing and beautiful sentiment, it reaches the poetic heart. Exceptionally done!!
September 18th, 2025 09:15
Bella Shepard said:
I love reading this poem aloud, with its gentle phrasing and beautiful sentiment, it reaches the poetic heart. Exceptionally done!!
September 18th, 2025 09:15
in the quiet tide
sorenbarrett said:
How many times I have grasped for a submerged thought to find an empty hand deceived by the surface refraction of light that bent the image below. I have seen many pulled back by the waves now out of reach. A wonderful write Cryptic that I have thought of and written on before. Very nicely expressed in this metaphor it resounds in the falling of each wave. Above all else don\'t let the muse drown
September 18th, 2025 05:33
sorenbarrett said:
How many times I have grasped for a submerged thought to find an empty hand deceived by the surface refraction of light that bent the image below. I have seen many pulled back by the waves now out of reach. A wonderful write Cryptic that I have thought of and written on before. Very nicely expressed in this metaphor it resounds in the falling of each wave. Above all else don\'t let the muse drown
September 18th, 2025 05:33
over-shoulder weather
Goldfinch60 said:
We must always keep walking that road Rik as the glory of life could be around the next corner or behind the next door.
Andy
September 18th, 2025 01:46
Goldfinch60 said:
We must always keep walking that road Rik as the glory of life could be around the next corner or behind the next door.
Andy
September 18th, 2025 01:46
over-shoulder weather
Fína Elara 🌙 Petra Patrice said:
This poem is beautifully meditative, layered with imagery of remorse, memory, and inescapable self-reflection. Nicely written.✨
September 17th, 2025 14:54
Fína Elara 🌙 Petra Patrice said:
This poem is beautifully meditative, layered with imagery of remorse, memory, and inescapable self-reflection. Nicely written.✨
September 17th, 2025 14:54
over-shoulder weather
Kevin Hulme said:
\'Always one Chair turned away \'. Some Wonderful lines. A fine write.
September 17th, 2025 12:17
Kevin Hulme said:
\'Always one Chair turned away \'. Some Wonderful lines. A fine write.
September 17th, 2025 12:17
over-shoulder weather
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this lingers like a ghost at your shoulder…the pilgrim with a mirror, the horizon wearing your shadow, the door that always leads back to the same vestibule. It’s haunting, relentless, and beautifully wrought. A fave, my dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2025 11:06
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this lingers like a ghost at your shoulder…the pilgrim with a mirror, the horizon wearing your shadow, the door that always leads back to the same vestibule. It’s haunting, relentless, and beautifully wrought. A fave, my dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 17th, 2025 11:06
over-shoulder weather
Friendship said:
“Over-Shoulder Weather” explores themes of memory, guilt, and the inescapable nature of one’s past. The speaker reflects on their transgressions and the lasting effects of their actions, acknowledging that while they have attempted to move forward, the weight of their past continues to influence their present.
September 17th, 2025 08:40
Friendship said:
“Over-Shoulder Weather” explores themes of memory, guilt, and the inescapable nature of one’s past. The speaker reflects on their transgressions and the lasting effects of their actions, acknowledging that while they have attempted to move forward, the weight of their past continues to influence their present.
September 17th, 2025 08:40
homestead knights
Tom Dylan said:
You capture the adventures we would go on in our imagination. A fine write.
September 17th, 2025 07:07
Tom Dylan said:
You capture the adventures we would go on in our imagination. A fine write.
September 17th, 2025 07:07
over-shoulder weather
sorenbarrett said:
Solemn, heavy with a darkness. There is a feeling of melancholy and sadness tinged with feelings of remorse. So poetically written it paints a scene covered with the ageing and darkening lacquer of an old painting. Reflections hold a wistful sadness of leaving a place one can not leave but have always been absent from. This piece is truly existential at its core. Very nicely done my friend and a fave
September 17th, 2025 06:15
sorenbarrett said:
Solemn, heavy with a darkness. There is a feeling of melancholy and sadness tinged with feelings of remorse. So poetically written it paints a scene covered with the ageing and darkening lacquer of an old painting. Reflections hold a wistful sadness of leaving a place one can not leave but have always been absent from. This piece is truly existential at its core. Very nicely done my friend and a fave
September 17th, 2025 06:15
homestead knights
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik taking me right back to my childhood, sword fighting and firing bows and arrow but we were never hurt and had wonderful playful days.
Thank you for bringing those memories to me once more.
Andy
September 17th, 2025 01:29
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik taking me right back to my childhood, sword fighting and firing bows and arrow but we were never hurt and had wonderful playful days.
Thank you for bringing those memories to me once more.
Andy
September 17th, 2025 01:29
homestead knights
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That moment of “boots steaming in the cool” stays with me…it grounds the whole piece, reminding us these knights were kids first. Such a vivid, human touch, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2025 15:25
Tristan Robert Lange said:
That moment of “boots steaming in the cool” stays with me…it grounds the whole piece, reminding us these knights were kids first. Such a vivid, human touch, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 16th, 2025 15:25
homestead knights
Kevin Hulme said:
So enjoyed this. Brought back memories of my own Childhood playing with my Brother.
I used to play \'Dr who\' and the Wardrobe was the \'Tardis\'. One day it toppled over with me inside 😂
A Childs Imagination is a Wonderful thing.
A fine Poem.
September 16th, 2025 08:28
Kevin Hulme said:
So enjoyed this. Brought back memories of my own Childhood playing with my Brother.
I used to play \'Dr who\' and the Wardrobe was the \'Tardis\'. One day it toppled over with me inside 😂
A Childs Imagination is a Wonderful thing.
A fine Poem.
September 16th, 2025 08:28
homestead knights
rebellion_in_sanity said:
A beautiful poem. Not sure why it brought to my \"When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall\". Can\'t recall which song or who sang it though.
September 16th, 2025 08:23
rebellion_in_sanity said:
A beautiful poem. Not sure why it brought to my \"When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall\". Can\'t recall which song or who sang it though.
September 16th, 2025 08:23
homestead knights
Doggerel Dave said:
Charming and for me complete view of one kind of a childhood world, Rik.
Enjoyed thoroughly.
September 16th, 2025 08:18
Doggerel Dave said:
Charming and for me complete view of one kind of a childhood world, Rik.
Enjoyed thoroughly.
September 16th, 2025 08:18
homestead knights
sorenbarrett said:
Deceptively childish and nostalgic this poem fits each of us in our daily fantasies and dreams. We have not come far in our journey from childhood to old age only the weapons and images have changed. There is a theme in this poem that dives deep to the core of man where we all remain children changing only our outward armor. Inside we are still those boys and girls chasing dragons and winning the princesses hand for imagination never dies and we all want to live happily ever after. A definite fave my friend
September 16th, 2025 04:09
sorenbarrett said:
Deceptively childish and nostalgic this poem fits each of us in our daily fantasies and dreams. We have not come far in our journey from childhood to old age only the weapons and images have changed. There is a theme in this poem that dives deep to the core of man where we all remain children changing only our outward armor. Inside we are still those boys and girls chasing dragons and winning the princesses hand for imagination never dies and we all want to live happily ever after. A definite fave my friend
September 16th, 2025 04:09
ochre ledge against folding sky
Tom Dylan said:
Nicely done. A fine write.
September 16th, 2025 02:04
Tom Dylan said:
Nicely done. A fine write.
September 16th, 2025 02:04
ochre ledge against folding sky
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words and layout Rik.
Andy
September 16th, 2025 01:24
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words and layout Rik.
Andy
September 16th, 2025 01:24
between shelves
NafisaSB said:
your love for books and literature literally shines through your verse. .keep walking this path..
September 16th, 2025 00:42
NafisaSB said:
your love for books and literature literally shines through your verse. .keep walking this path..
September 16th, 2025 00:42
ochre ledge against folding sky
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Major fave! This is stunning, arqios…the fractures, the moths, the seam tearing open. It reads like memory and myth folding into each other, impossible to pin down yet impossible to forget. You’ve built something vast here. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 15th, 2025 12:56
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Major fave! This is stunning, arqios…the fractures, the moths, the seam tearing open. It reads like memory and myth folding into each other, impossible to pin down yet impossible to forget. You’ve built something vast here. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 15th, 2025 12:56
\"weekend headline remix\" (happy poems weekend suite)
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, I love this…doomscroll undone, tulip-bombs planted, a sandwich eclipsing the market. Playful and defiant, it makes light itself a protest. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 15th, 2025 12:14
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, I love this…doomscroll undone, tulip-bombs planted, a sandwich eclipsing the market. Playful and defiant, it makes light itself a protest. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 15th, 2025 12:14
ochre ledge against folding sky
sorenbarrett said:
A majestic poem worthy of display in any text of poetry. This poem does not speak or shout but rumbles in its whispers haunting the imagination with metaphoric shadows. Like a fish below deep waters where only movement can be detected in darkness it swims growing in the imagination. An unseen rustle in the dark that raises hair and gooseflesh. It is the unknown shadows of this poem that make that rumble in haunted whispers. A truly great work Cryptic
September 15th, 2025 04:11
sorenbarrett said:
A majestic poem worthy of display in any text of poetry. This poem does not speak or shout but rumbles in its whispers haunting the imagination with metaphoric shadows. Like a fish below deep waters where only movement can be detected in darkness it swims growing in the imagination. An unseen rustle in the dark that raises hair and gooseflesh. It is the unknown shadows of this poem that make that rumble in haunted whispers. A truly great work Cryptic
September 15th, 2025 04:11
\"weekend headline remix\" (happy poems weekend suite)
Fína Elara 🌙 Petra Patrice said:
Love how this flips headlines into joy turning dread into something playful and bright. Nicely written.
September 14th, 2025 22:57
Fína Elara 🌙 Petra Patrice said:
Love how this flips headlines into joy turning dread into something playful and bright. Nicely written.
September 14th, 2025 22:57
\"weekend headline remix\" (happy poems weekend suite)
Doggerel Dave said:
Personal immediacy trumps all else...
I\'ll go with the latte and sandwich - gotta be veggo though....
September 14th, 2025 17:47
Doggerel Dave said:
Personal immediacy trumps all else...
I\'ll go with the latte and sandwich - gotta be veggo though....
September 14th, 2025 17:47
\"weekend headline remix\" (happy poems weekend suite)
sorenbarrett said:
This one brought to mind a scrapbook of newspaper clippings flipped through quickly with only random headings appearing in rapid succession some missed and all meanings in a jumble in the head. What stands out is the last primary needs of the moment always take precedence and we put the worlds worries and others woes aside in that scrapbook of headlines page now turned and forgotten. Nicely done Cryptic
September 14th, 2025 05:40
sorenbarrett said:
This one brought to mind a scrapbook of newspaper clippings flipped through quickly with only random headings appearing in rapid succession some missed and all meanings in a jumble in the head. What stands out is the last primary needs of the moment always take precedence and we put the worlds worries and others woes aside in that scrapbook of headlines page now turned and forgotten. Nicely done Cryptic
September 14th, 2025 05:40
of resonances
Goldfinch60 said:
Such wonderful words Rik, they are so meaningful.
Andy
September 14th, 2025 01:12
Goldfinch60 said:
Such wonderful words Rik, they are so meaningful.
Andy
September 14th, 2025 01:12
of resonances
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is both hymn and hurricane...voice, marrow, and music forged into tribute. You’ve given our friend Soren a piece alive with respect and fire. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 13th, 2025 14:58
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is both hymn and hurricane...voice, marrow, and music forged into tribute. You’ve given our friend Soren a piece alive with respect and fire. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
September 13th, 2025 14:58
of resonances
Priya Tomar said:
A good poem about friendship...
Nicely done.
September 13th, 2025 08:45
Priya Tomar said:
A good poem about friendship...
Nicely done.
September 13th, 2025 08:45
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