Comments received on poems by arqios
00:00, 2026
Friendship said:
Happy New Year\'s, enjoy the read, short and simple
January 1st, 2026 09:04
Friendship said:
Happy New Year\'s, enjoy the read, short and simple
January 1st, 2026 09:04
farewell 2025
Kevin Hulme said:
New Year is a mixture of Being Happy and Sad.
I always think of Loved Ones now gone .
But we carry on. Happy New year to you and yours.
December 31st, 2025 21:47
Kevin Hulme said:
New Year is a mixture of Being Happy and Sad.
I always think of Loved Ones now gone .
But we carry on. Happy New year to you and yours.
December 31st, 2025 21:47
farewell 2025
Katie B. said:
Immaculate as usual! You are most well written. How long have you been writing? Do you have formal training?
December 31st, 2025 09:10
Katie B. said:
Immaculate as usual! You are most well written. How long have you been writing? Do you have formal training?
December 31st, 2025 09:10
farewell 2025
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is patient wisdom earned the hard way. You balance sentiment and realism without letting either take over, and the ending honors forward motion without erasing what’s been carried. Quiet, clear, and true. A fave for sure. Happy New Year to you and your family , my dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 31st, 2025 09:09
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is patient wisdom earned the hard way. You balance sentiment and realism without letting either take over, and the ending honors forward motion without erasing what’s been carried. Quiet, clear, and true. A fave for sure. Happy New Year to you and your family , my dear friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 31st, 2025 09:09
farewell 2025
sorenbarrett said:
As always my friend your verse is loaded with great allegory and this time of one so familiar like the old year now past it calls on memory worn smooth by use and comfortable to the touch one winces at taking the new into hand wondering what it will bring and until when it will feel comfortable too. A lovely write my friend
December 31st, 2025 07:11
sorenbarrett said:
As always my friend your verse is loaded with great allegory and this time of one so familiar like the old year now past it calls on memory worn smooth by use and comfortable to the touch one winces at taking the new into hand wondering what it will bring and until when it will feel comfortable too. A lovely write my friend
December 31st, 2025 07:11
cartography of echoes
Dan Williams said:
\"Unpublishable\" is all too familiar to me. \"Between cursor and keystroke’s muted pause, I heed your lightning riffs, a tempest that rattles\" is marvelous. Nice work here.
December 31st, 2025 04:23
Dan Williams said:
\"Unpublishable\" is all too familiar to me. \"Between cursor and keystroke’s muted pause, I heed your lightning riffs, a tempest that rattles\" is marvelous. Nice work here.
December 31st, 2025 04:23
cartography of echoes
Goldfinch60 said:
Good words Rik, that light will always be there for us.
Andy
December 31st, 2025 02:52
Goldfinch60 said:
Good words Rik, that light will always be there for us.
Andy
December 31st, 2025 02:52
cartography of echoes
orchidee said:
A nice bit of cartography there - I dunno wot it means exactly! lol. Fido says to me: \'I knew you wouldn\'t get the meaning even if it\'s only the least bit cryptic\'. lol.
December 30th, 2025 13:06
orchidee said:
A nice bit of cartography there - I dunno wot it means exactly! lol. Fido says to me: \'I knew you wouldn\'t get the meaning even if it\'s only the least bit cryptic\'. lol.
December 30th, 2025 13:06
cartography of echoes
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, my dear friend, thank you for this. Truly. It landed at a moment when I was questioning everything… purpose, voice, even whether writing still mattered. (Of course, I know it does...but that self-doubt can be pernicious). The timing feels anything but accidental. This felt like God speaking through the void, arriving exactly when it needed to. Your words of human and artistic recognition mean more than I can say. I was literally sitting in an “I’m unpublishable” spiral when this appeared (even as I just did get a poem published, followed by more rejection letters 🤣🤷♂️😅)… and somehow this poem cut through that noise and reminded me why I speak at all. Deeply grateful for the care, the seeing, and the fellowship here. I truly appreciate you, Rik! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 30th, 2025 11:10
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, my dear friend, thank you for this. Truly. It landed at a moment when I was questioning everything… purpose, voice, even whether writing still mattered. (Of course, I know it does...but that self-doubt can be pernicious). The timing feels anything but accidental. This felt like God speaking through the void, arriving exactly when it needed to. Your words of human and artistic recognition mean more than I can say. I was literally sitting in an “I’m unpublishable” spiral when this appeared (even as I just did get a poem published, followed by more rejection letters 🤣🤷♂️😅)… and somehow this poem cut through that noise and reminded me why I speak at all. Deeply grateful for the care, the seeing, and the fellowship here. I truly appreciate you, Rik! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 30th, 2025 11:10
cartography of echoes
Friendship said:
Nicely worded. Your poem seems to revolve around the power of words and personal confessions shared in a digital landscape, highlighting themes of defiance, connection, grief, and creativity.
December 30th, 2025 06:25
Friendship said:
Nicely worded. Your poem seems to revolve around the power of words and personal confessions shared in a digital landscape, highlighting themes of defiance, connection, grief, and creativity.
December 30th, 2025 06:25
cartography of echoes
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful toast to another great poetic soul. Well written this poem sparked an old fear or rather concern. When poems were paper chained fire their greatest enemy today digital and screen based a simple solar flare could take out all.
December 30th, 2025 05:13
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful toast to another great poetic soul. Well written this poem sparked an old fear or rather concern. When poems were paper chained fire their greatest enemy today digital and screen based a simple solar flare could take out all.
December 30th, 2025 05:13
endurings
Kevin Hulme said:
Lichen always reminds me of Gravestones ; as in Stanza 6. Good Write.
December 29th, 2025 21:27
Kevin Hulme said:
Lichen always reminds me of Gravestones ; as in Stanza 6. Good Write.
December 29th, 2025 21:27
endurings
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this settles into the body slowly. It’s patient, restrained, and deeply attentive. Nothing rushes, nothing explains itself…and that quiet confidence makes it powerful. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 29th, 2025 15:01
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this settles into the body slowly. It’s patient, restrained, and deeply attentive. Nothing rushes, nothing explains itself…and that quiet confidence makes it powerful. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
December 29th, 2025 15:01
endurings
orchidee said:
I endured to the end of this good write, which is more than I can say for some over-long poems on here! lol.
December 29th, 2025 10:40
orchidee said:
I endured to the end of this good write, which is more than I can say for some over-long poems on here! lol.
December 29th, 2025 10:40
endurings
Friendship said:
I enjoy this poem very much. Your poem uses natural imagery to convey the emotional weight of grief, the inevitability of change, and the ways in which life continues despite sorrow. It juxtaposes elements of nature with personal reflection, emphasizing how both are interconnected.
December 29th, 2025 08:58
Friendship said:
I enjoy this poem very much. Your poem uses natural imagery to convey the emotional weight of grief, the inevitability of change, and the ways in which life continues despite sorrow. It juxtaposes elements of nature with personal reflection, emphasizing how both are interconnected.
December 29th, 2025 08:58
endurings
sorenbarrett said:
This poem ingeniously weaves seemingly unconnected pieces together into a breathless work. There are several lines that I loved parts 2 and 4 were particularly stunning. \"clouds bleed quiet\" is a wonderful line. For one that understands this poem is not only botanical but a metaphor as well and one that people would do well to understand. A masterful work Cryptic my congratulations
December 29th, 2025 06:06
sorenbarrett said:
This poem ingeniously weaves seemingly unconnected pieces together into a breathless work. There are several lines that I loved parts 2 and 4 were particularly stunning. \"clouds bleed quiet\" is a wonderful line. For one that understands this poem is not only botanical but a metaphor as well and one that people would do well to understand. A masterful work Cryptic my congratulations
December 29th, 2025 06:06
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
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