Comments received on poems by arqios
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (reprise)
orchidee said:
A sort of story about Tom, Dick, and Harry, with changes of names?! heehee.
November 30th, 2025 10:24
orchidee said:
A sort of story about Tom, Dick, and Harry, with changes of names?! heehee.
November 30th, 2025 10:24
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (reprise)
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this lands with quiet grace…the sun-gold hair, the recollection nets, the horizon as a gate. You honored the original lullaby while giving it a deeper, lived-in soul. Beautiful reprise. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 30th, 2025 08:47
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this lands with quiet grace…the sun-gold hair, the recollection nets, the horizon as a gate. You honored the original lullaby while giving it a deeper, lived-in soul. Beautiful reprise. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 30th, 2025 08:47
forever keep silent
NafisaSB said:
A poem that haunts you with its unspoken words yet deep message. Well done 👍
November 30th, 2025 05:36
NafisaSB said:
A poem that haunts you with its unspoken words yet deep message. Well done 👍
November 30th, 2025 05:36
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (reprise)
sorenbarrett said:
Wow! A truly masterful poem that in the nostalgia of childhood takes one of fond memories as passenger on life\'s journey across the seas of time. Growing older as we travel to that distant horizon that seems never to arrive. So carefully set in multiple layers of metaphor it speaks to the inner child now aged and weathered by storms of life. Ripened, greenness gone we mellow in memories no longer searching for what we once longed for but now resting in recollections on a peaceful sea of age. This poem is warm under a patient sun. So much more could be said of this piece, so many meanings to be drawn from its wonderful lines. To cite one would be to neglect another and the whole poem would have to be listed as it is a nursery rhyme for the old that once was young and each letter a fond memory. This one my friend is a fave among faves
November 30th, 2025 05:33
sorenbarrett said:
Wow! A truly masterful poem that in the nostalgia of childhood takes one of fond memories as passenger on life\'s journey across the seas of time. Growing older as we travel to that distant horizon that seems never to arrive. So carefully set in multiple layers of metaphor it speaks to the inner child now aged and weathered by storms of life. Ripened, greenness gone we mellow in memories no longer searching for what we once longed for but now resting in recollections on a peaceful sea of age. This poem is warm under a patient sun. So much more could be said of this piece, so many meanings to be drawn from its wonderful lines. To cite one would be to neglect another and the whole poem would have to be listed as it is a nursery rhyme for the old that once was young and each letter a fond memory. This one my friend is a fave among faves
November 30th, 2025 05:33
panels and tears
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik, many do not see the whole when they focus on just one thing.
Andy
November 30th, 2025 02:25
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik, many do not see the whole when they focus on just one thing.
Andy
November 30th, 2025 02:25
panels and tears
Kevin Hulme said:
I\'ve seen \'Devotion\' measured by the Loudest Singer in a Church.
You said a Mouthful in your Poem.
November 29th, 2025 20:19
Kevin Hulme said:
I\'ve seen \'Devotion\' measured by the Loudest Singer in a Church.
You said a Mouthful in your Poem.
November 29th, 2025 20:19
panels and tears
sorenbarrett said:
What a wonderful metaphor Cryptic. We do indeed focus our attention on the details of what is closest to us neglecting the structure itself. So many religions based on detail not what is important, so many wars fought over minutia. What is visible to the eye becomes the valued and the superstructure that holds it all up ignored. Very nicely presented my friend and in good rhyme as well.
November 29th, 2025 09:28
sorenbarrett said:
What a wonderful metaphor Cryptic. We do indeed focus our attention on the details of what is closest to us neglecting the structure itself. So many religions based on detail not what is important, so many wars fought over minutia. What is visible to the eye becomes the valued and the superstructure that holds it all up ignored. Very nicely presented my friend and in good rhyme as well.
November 29th, 2025 09:28
panels and tears
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Yay! First comment! My friend, I’ve seen this…people polishing their cedar panels while the world floods around them. You captured that contrast between piety and performance with stark clarity. Very well done, as always! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 29th, 2025 09:26
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Yay! First comment! My friend, I’ve seen this…people polishing their cedar panels while the world floods around them. You captured that contrast between piety and performance with stark clarity. Very well done, as always! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 29th, 2025 09:26
hearth of language
Goldfinch60 said:
That warmth between two people is totally irreplaceable Rik.
Andy
November 29th, 2025 02:16
Goldfinch60 said:
That warmth between two people is totally irreplaceable Rik.
Andy
November 29th, 2025 02:16
hearth of language
Doggerel Dave said:
The connection in between the words forms the moment in space and time. You are so good at this, Rik - Thanks.
November 28th, 2025 17:06
Doggerel Dave said:
The connection in between the words forms the moment in space and time. You are so good at this, Rik - Thanks.
November 28th, 2025 17:06
hearth of language
Bella Shepard said:
The hearth of language, the home, the table where bread is broken, love and comradery shared, cherished. Beautifully written dear poet!
November 28th, 2025 12:48
Bella Shepard said:
The hearth of language, the home, the table where bread is broken, love and comradery shared, cherished. Beautifully written dear poet!
November 28th, 2025 12:48
hearth of language
Paul Gerard Reed said:
I like that phrase \'the steady cost of care\'. You are right - care is not grand or distant. Steadiness is a quality much under-valued.
November 28th, 2025 10:51
Paul Gerard Reed said:
I like that phrase \'the steady cost of care\'. You are right - care is not grand or distant. Steadiness is a quality much under-valued.
November 28th, 2025 10:51
hearth of language
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this lands softly but sure…the “small gestures put us back in step” moment really stayed with me, and I’ve lived that kind of quiet reconnection. Warm, grounded, and beautifully human. Love it, dear friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 28th, 2025 10:46
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this lands softly but sure…the “small gestures put us back in step” moment really stayed with me, and I’ve lived that kind of quiet reconnection. Warm, grounded, and beautifully human. Love it, dear friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 28th, 2025 10:46
hearth of language
orchidee said:
Cooeee! You being here? Or being there?! lol.
November 28th, 2025 07:52
orchidee said:
Cooeee! You being here? Or being there?! lol.
November 28th, 2025 07:52
hearth of language
arqios said:
Thanks so much @Demar Desu for the Fave 🤩 truly appreciate you 🙏🏻🕊️
November 28th, 2025 07:22
arqios said:
Thanks so much @Demar Desu for the Fave 🤩 truly appreciate you 🙏🏻🕊️
November 28th, 2025 07:22
hearth of language
sorenbarrett said:
Comradery, words shared, time spent, warmth of company. Time the most precious of commodities is well spent with someone cherished. A lovely write Cryptic
November 28th, 2025 06:41
sorenbarrett said:
Comradery, words shared, time spent, warmth of company. Time the most precious of commodities is well spent with someone cherished. A lovely write Cryptic
November 28th, 2025 06:41
hearth of language
Paul Bell said:
This feels like the visit to the care home.
Maybe dementia has taken its toll, but sometimes the spark is there.
Tough journey and echoed throughout the land by couples whose life ends this way.
November 28th, 2025 05:52
Paul Bell said:
This feels like the visit to the care home.
Maybe dementia has taken its toll, but sometimes the spark is there.
Tough journey and echoed throughout the land by couples whose life ends this way.
November 28th, 2025 05:52
ink on the Savannah
Goldfinch60 said:
Those words can bring so many thoughts Rik.
Andy
November 28th, 2025 01:57
Goldfinch60 said:
Those words can bring so many thoughts Rik.
Andy
November 28th, 2025 01:57
ink on the Savannah
Kevin Hulme said:
The Creative Process I find so enjoyable; but when a Poem Complete - A sense of Loss until the Next. Oh for a really fine subject.
Well Written Poem.
November 27th, 2025 20:32
Kevin Hulme said:
The Creative Process I find so enjoyable; but when a Poem Complete - A sense of Loss until the Next. Oh for a really fine subject.
Well Written Poem.
November 27th, 2025 20:32
ink on the Savannah
Doggerel Dave said:
\"scarfing fragments into chorus
more than jotted lines on a page.\"
Undeniably it takes words stuck together in juxtaposition upon a page to create something. The question is what? Here your hyena and meercat stanzas crack it. Would that all jotted lines on a MPS page did the same.
November 27th, 2025 17:46
Doggerel Dave said:
\"scarfing fragments into chorus
more than jotted lines on a page.\"
Undeniably it takes words stuck together in juxtaposition upon a page to create something. The question is what? Here your hyena and meercat stanzas crack it. Would that all jotted lines on a MPS page did the same.
November 27th, 2025 17:46
ink on the Savannah
Friendship said:
The poem revolves around the duality of nature, specifically the tension between menace and playfulness. The subject matter explores the contrasting behaviors of animals (the hyena and the meerkat) as metaphors for different aspects of life and creativity. The poem suggests that within the chaos of existence, there is a dance between danger and joy, fear and curiosity, emphasizing that these elements coexist and even enrich one another.
November 27th, 2025 08:39
Friendship said:
The poem revolves around the duality of nature, specifically the tension between menace and playfulness. The subject matter explores the contrasting behaviors of animals (the hyena and the meerkat) as metaphors for different aspects of life and creativity. The poem suggests that within the chaos of existence, there is a dance between danger and joy, fear and curiosity, emphasizing that these elements coexist and even enrich one another.
November 27th, 2025 08:39
ink on the Savannah
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this is such a vivid metaphor for creation itself…the teeth and the darting eyes…the danger and the play wrapped together. It reads like the page came alive. Beautiful work, dear poet and friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 27th, 2025 07:56
Tristan Robert Lange said:
arqios, this is such a vivid metaphor for creation itself…the teeth and the darting eyes…the danger and the play wrapped together. It reads like the page came alive. Beautiful work, dear poet and friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
November 27th, 2025 07:56
ink on the Savannah
sorenbarrett said:
My mind wanders through the grass. Hyena it seems to laugh but fierce and powerful. A scavenger stealing bits and pieces of other\'s kills. Poems carcasses pillaged. Care must be taken for savage critics lie in the shadows ready to reclaim what has been taken. Now a meerkat the poet raises his timid head to assess the threat before descending to safety. Pieces of carrion joined, eaten, becoming new cells and life in the circle of a poem. A lovely metaphorical write and a fave
November 27th, 2025 06:26
sorenbarrett said:
My mind wanders through the grass. Hyena it seems to laugh but fierce and powerful. A scavenger stealing bits and pieces of other\'s kills. Poems carcasses pillaged. Care must be taken for savage critics lie in the shadows ready to reclaim what has been taken. Now a meerkat the poet raises his timid head to assess the threat before descending to safety. Pieces of carrion joined, eaten, becoming new cells and life in the circle of a poem. A lovely metaphorical write and a fave
November 27th, 2025 06:26
forever keep silent
rebellion_in_sanity said:
I felt the poem transporting me to the place it talked about- perhaps one of the strongest appreciation I know of. Fave.
November 27th, 2025 04:52
rebellion_in_sanity said:
I felt the poem transporting me to the place it talked about- perhaps one of the strongest appreciation I know of. Fave.
November 27th, 2025 04:52
forever keep silent
Goldfinch60 said:
That silence in our life can be such a powerful and life saving place to be Rik.
Andy
November 27th, 2025 02:22
Goldfinch60 said:
That silence in our life can be such a powerful and life saving place to be Rik.
Andy
November 27th, 2025 02:22
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