Comments received on poems by arqios
the bridge at dusk
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik, problems can often be solved by meeting with one another an a bridge.
Andy
December 29th, 2025 02:51
Goldfinch60 said:
Wonderful words Rik, problems can often be solved by meeting with one another an a bridge.
Andy
December 29th, 2025 02:51
the bridge at dusk
orchidee said:
Good write A. That you on that bridge there? Can\'t see a lot - bit dusky! lol.
December 28th, 2025 10:41
orchidee said:
Good write A. That you on that bridge there? Can\'t see a lot - bit dusky! lol.
December 28th, 2025 10:41
the bridge at dusk
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, what patient, weathered, and deeply human write! The grit in the dialogue, the wind as witness, the refusal to offer a tidy moral…all of it trusts the reader. Walking in the same direction again without ceremony feels like the truest ending possible. Beautiful work. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 28th, 2025 08:05
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, what patient, weathered, and deeply human write! The grit in the dialogue, the wind as witness, the refusal to offer a tidy moral…all of it trusts the reader. Walking in the same direction again without ceremony feels like the truest ending possible. Beautiful work. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 28th, 2025 08:05
the bridge at dusk
sorenbarrett said:
Eloquent writing here my friend. Poetry indeed saying without saying, knowing without being told, surrender under the flag of pride where war is avoided and both emerge victor\'s in their own mind. A fave
December 28th, 2025 06:48
sorenbarrett said:
Eloquent writing here my friend. Poetry indeed saying without saying, knowing without being told, surrender under the flag of pride where war is avoided and both emerge victor\'s in their own mind. A fave
December 28th, 2025 06:48
Pancras Pancakes
Goldfinch60 said:
St Pancras here I come for the Pancakes Rik.
Andy
December 28th, 2025 02:48
Goldfinch60 said:
St Pancras here I come for the Pancakes Rik.
Andy
December 28th, 2025 02:48
winterspeak
cellinic said:
Very deep poem with well-founded poetic arguments) best wishes,
December 28th, 2025 02:06
cellinic said:
Very deep poem with well-founded poetic arguments) best wishes,
December 28th, 2025 02:06
Pancras Pancakes
Kevin Hulme said:
200 years ago last September; the very first Passenger Train pulled out of my home town -Shildon- on its way to Darlington then Stockton.
\'The Locomotion\' built by George Stephenson.
I often walk along the Path by the original route which is still used. Whenever I see a Train anywhere in the World I think : It all started right here. Enjoyed your Poam. To think St Pancras was to be Demolished until John Betjeman stepped in.
December 27th, 2025 20:33
Kevin Hulme said:
200 years ago last September; the very first Passenger Train pulled out of my home town -Shildon- on its way to Darlington then Stockton.
\'The Locomotion\' built by George Stephenson.
I often walk along the Path by the original route which is still used. Whenever I see a Train anywhere in the World I think : It all started right here. Enjoyed your Poam. To think St Pancras was to be Demolished until John Betjeman stepped in.
December 27th, 2025 20:33
way into warmth
Thomas W Case said:
This is quiet encouragement done right—small human gestures carrying real power. The image of winter softening feels earned, not forced, and the warmth arrives naturally through play rather than insistence.
December 27th, 2025 18:05
Thomas W Case said:
This is quiet encouragement done right—small human gestures carrying real power. The image of winter softening feels earned, not forced, and the warmth arrives naturally through play rather than insistence.
December 27th, 2025 18:05
Pancras Pancakes
orchidee said:
Did ya pop over to us in the UK via Eurostar train?! (St Pancras). I will pop over to see ya. I\'m checking if the No.7 bus here goes to Australia. lol.
December 27th, 2025 14:42
orchidee said:
Did ya pop over to us in the UK via Eurostar train?! (St Pancras). I will pop over to see ya. I\'m checking if the No.7 bus here goes to Australia. lol.
December 27th, 2025 14:42
Pancras Pancakes
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this is clever without being clever-for-its-own-sake. You let place, sound, and appetite mingle until the poem becomes both linguistic play and sensory experience. It’s light on its feet, attentive, and quietly joyful. Loved it, dearest friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 27th, 2025 10:12
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this is clever without being clever-for-its-own-sake. You let place, sound, and appetite mingle until the poem becomes both linguistic play and sensory experience. It’s light on its feet, attentive, and quietly joyful. Loved it, dearest friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 27th, 2025 10:12
Pancras Pancakes
sorenbarrett said:
A strange pairing. A she wolf that adopts a child. Romulus and Remus legendary founders of Rome, Here the mere near homophone easily distorted takes one down two paths one of rails and another of flesh and blood, the rails carry the flesh and blood that created it. In this poem the station and train are personified breathing and lifting the other sends travelers too through ducts and vessels in a body. A related image where mixed like batter they become pancakes. Such a strange mixture in mistaken ingredients in words as well as materials that often make a mistaken item. Excuse my rambling mind Cryptic it too mistakes the meaning in words and poem and comes up with pancakes
December 27th, 2025 08:02
sorenbarrett said:
A strange pairing. A she wolf that adopts a child. Romulus and Remus legendary founders of Rome, Here the mere near homophone easily distorted takes one down two paths one of rails and another of flesh and blood, the rails carry the flesh and blood that created it. In this poem the station and train are personified breathing and lifting the other sends travelers too through ducts and vessels in a body. A related image where mixed like batter they become pancakes. Such a strange mixture in mistaken ingredients in words as well as materials that often make a mistaken item. Excuse my rambling mind Cryptic it too mistakes the meaning in words and poem and comes up with pancakes
December 27th, 2025 08:02
wintergreen
Kevin Hulme said:
I always await the first Daffodils of Spring.
Amazing to think of the Animals in Hibernation now waiting for Next years Springtime.
Well Said.
December 26th, 2025 19:45
Kevin Hulme said:
I always await the first Daffodils of Spring.
Amazing to think of the Animals in Hibernation now waiting for Next years Springtime.
Well Said.
December 26th, 2025 19:45
wintergreen
Tristan Robert Lange said:
I love this and, being that I know you are currently in your summer time, I love how you provide home to us northern hemisphere folks. Honestly, your thoughtfulness makes me think it tis the Northern Hemispher that is walk sideways and upside down, just saying. 🤣 Wonderful write, my friend! I needed to be reminded of evergreen as a blast of the white stuff heads our way in a little while! Much appreciated! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 26th, 2025 10:31
Tristan Robert Lange said:
I love this and, being that I know you are currently in your summer time, I love how you provide home to us northern hemisphere folks. Honestly, your thoughtfulness makes me think it tis the Northern Hemispher that is walk sideways and upside down, just saying. 🤣 Wonderful write, my friend! I needed to be reminded of evergreen as a blast of the white stuff heads our way in a little while! Much appreciated! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 26th, 2025 10:31
wintergreen
orchidee said:
Good write A. But you is in Summer there. heehee.
December 26th, 2025 09:10
orchidee said:
Good write A. But you is in Summer there. heehee.
December 26th, 2025 09:10
wintergreen
Friendship said:
Your poem serves to remind readers of the importance of patience and the assurance that life will return after a period of stillness, encouraging a sense of hope and resilience in the face of challenges.
December 26th, 2025 08:11
Friendship said:
Your poem serves to remind readers of the importance of patience and the assurance that life will return after a period of stillness, encouraging a sense of hope and resilience in the face of challenges.
December 26th, 2025 08:11
wintergreen
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic this is a beautiful dive into the metaphysical a metaphor for all life and change that breaths in its waves of respiration, its inhale and exhale and the pauses in-between that do not signal an end but merely a new beginning in the endless cycle. Brief but merely a signal of what is yet to come. This poem encapsulates in its words that pause.
December 26th, 2025 05:46
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic this is a beautiful dive into the metaphysical a metaphor for all life and change that breaths in its waves of respiration, its inhale and exhale and the pauses in-between that do not signal an end but merely a new beginning in the endless cycle. Brief but merely a signal of what is yet to come. This poem encapsulates in its words that pause.
December 26th, 2025 05:46
way into warmth
NafisaSB said:
Maybe will start to do it today - and follow up tomorrow 🤗🤔😁😆
December 26th, 2025 04:06
NafisaSB said:
Maybe will start to do it today - and follow up tomorrow 🤗🤔😁😆
December 26th, 2025 04:06
way into warmth
orchidee said:
Good write A. But you is warm there! You told me it was 38C the other night! heehee.
Summat like -38C here in UK just now. Not quite, but feels like that anyway!
December 25th, 2025 11:13
orchidee said:
Good write A. But you is warm there! You told me it was 38C the other night! heehee.
Summat like -38C here in UK just now. Not quite, but feels like that anyway!
December 25th, 2025 11:13
way into warmth
Friendship said:
Your poem explores themes of self-acceptance, the impact of laughter on one\'s mood, and the ability of joy to counteract negativity.
December 25th, 2025 08:10
Friendship said:
Your poem explores themes of self-acceptance, the impact of laughter on one\'s mood, and the ability of joy to counteract negativity.
December 25th, 2025 08:10
way into warmth
sorenbarrett said:
We create our own joy, manufacturing our illusions of happiness and comfort. But far better to think ourselves rich in our poverty than poor in our wealth. A lovely write Cryptic and a fave
December 25th, 2025 06:40
sorenbarrett said:
We create our own joy, manufacturing our illusions of happiness and comfort. But far better to think ourselves rich in our poverty than poor in our wealth. A lovely write Cryptic and a fave
December 25th, 2025 06:40
way into warmth
Mutley Ravishes said:
I heard some great advice from an Indian sage - the moment you become deadly serious, your brain freezes!
December 25th, 2025 06:01
Mutley Ravishes said:
I heard some great advice from an Indian sage - the moment you become deadly serious, your brain freezes!
December 25th, 2025 06:01
travel companions
NafisaSB said:
Very good advice. Will try to follow merry Christmas 🤶 🎄
December 25th, 2025 00:17
NafisaSB said:
Very good advice. Will try to follow merry Christmas 🤶 🎄
December 25th, 2025 00:17
broad-back city
Kevin Hulme said:
A Good Poem on the development of a City.
The Victorians knew how to Build things.
Merry Christmas.
December 24th, 2025 13:45
Kevin Hulme said:
A Good Poem on the development of a City.
The Victorians knew how to Build things.
Merry Christmas.
December 24th, 2025 13:45
broad-back city
Goldfinch60 said:
Very good write Rik, I was walking those streets with you.
Andy
December 24th, 2025 02:48
Goldfinch60 said:
Very good write Rik, I was walking those streets with you.
Andy
December 24th, 2025 02:48
broad-back city
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
\"I see the work you carry.\" That’s the heart of it. This poem is an act of true seeing—unflinching, deeply respectful, and ultimately standing in solidarity. It honors the weariness without ever romanticizing it. A profound tribute.
December 23rd, 2025 14:45
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
\"I see the work you carry.\" That’s the heart of it. This poem is an act of true seeing—unflinching, deeply respectful, and ultimately standing in solidarity. It honors the weariness without ever romanticizing it. A profound tribute.
December 23rd, 2025 14:45
broad-back city
Katie B. said:
Your work is truly inspiring. It is always a pleasure to read. I hope to learn from your work. How long have you been writing?
December 23rd, 2025 09:58
Katie B. said:
Your work is truly inspiring. It is always a pleasure to read. I hope to learn from your work. How long have you been writing?
December 23rd, 2025 09:58
broad-back city
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this feels solid and earned. There’s weight in it, but not heaviness…more like steadiness. What struck me most is how you give the city a working body without romanticizing it. The labor, the scars, the persistence…none of it is polished, and that’s exactly why it rings true. The respect is quiet, not decorative. The poem stands upright the way it describes standing upright, and that integrity carries all the way through. Great job, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 23rd, 2025 09:50
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this feels solid and earned. There’s weight in it, but not heaviness…more like steadiness. What struck me most is how you give the city a working body without romanticizing it. The labor, the scars, the persistence…none of it is polished, and that’s exactly why it rings true. The respect is quiet, not decorative. The poem stands upright the way it describes standing upright, and that integrity carries all the way through. Great job, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 23rd, 2025 09:50
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