Comments received on poems by arqios
Devon Pan
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This is poetry’s own origin story...Pan’s breath reborn in modern lungs, the Devon wind carrying Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth in its undertones. You’ve written the eternal pursuit of art itself: beauty fleeing, music following. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛ Very well done and a fave.
October 23rd, 2025 18:50
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This is poetry’s own origin story...Pan’s breath reborn in modern lungs, the Devon wind carrying Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth in its undertones. You’ve written the eternal pursuit of art itself: beauty fleeing, music following. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛ Very well done and a fave.
October 23rd, 2025 18:50
Devon Pan
orchidee said:
Good write A, though I suppose I\'m lost in the crypticness of it. \'Nothing new there then\' relating to me, as the saying goes! lol.
October 23rd, 2025 13:53
orchidee said:
Good write A, though I suppose I\'m lost in the crypticness of it. \'Nothing new there then\' relating to me, as the saying goes! lol.
October 23rd, 2025 13:53
Devon Pan
Friendship said:
The poem explores themes of beauty, longing, and the cyclical nature of desire through the lens of myth and nature. It reflects on how the pursuit of beauty can evoke deep emotional responses, linking modern life to ancient myths.
October 23rd, 2025 11:20
Friendship said:
The poem explores themes of beauty, longing, and the cyclical nature of desire through the lens of myth and nature. It reflects on how the pursuit of beauty can evoke deep emotional responses, linking modern life to ancient myths.
October 23rd, 2025 11:20
Devon Pan
sorenbarrett said:
Is it not all a metaphor for man always chasing beauty never to quite grasp it and should he then what was beauty in the eye of desire becomes the ordinary, expected, now discarded. A lovely write my friend.
October 23rd, 2025 06:32
sorenbarrett said:
Is it not all a metaphor for man always chasing beauty never to quite grasp it and should he then what was beauty in the eye of desire becomes the ordinary, expected, now discarded. A lovely write my friend.
October 23rd, 2025 06:32
in the waning light
Goldfinch60 said:
Music can be found in many ways Rik.
Andy
October 23rd, 2025 01:24
Goldfinch60 said:
Music can be found in many ways Rik.
Andy
October 23rd, 2025 01:24
weapons of mass distraction
Doggerel Dave said:
Keep \'em jumping, feed \'em crap. Their function is to exponentially increase our wealth - just don\'t ask: to what end?
October 22nd, 2025 18:58
Doggerel Dave said:
Keep \'em jumping, feed \'em crap. Their function is to exponentially increase our wealth - just don\'t ask: to what end?
October 22nd, 2025 18:58
in the waning light
Doggerel Dave said:
A picture in some ways familiar, but anyway one even I can understand.
Thanks Rik.
October 22nd, 2025 09:58
Doggerel Dave said:
A picture in some ways familiar, but anyway one even I can understand.
Thanks Rik.
October 22nd, 2025 09:58
in the waning light
sorenbarrett said:
This vivid visual and auditory image sets the mood for the time of evening. It becomes alive in metaphor of waning life where the breath and even light in ones eyes vacillates diming from time to time and rattle in ones voice like the clink of bottles comes at the end of day. All mark the twilight. So subtle and so short the poem, day and life. A fave
October 22nd, 2025 05:25
sorenbarrett said:
This vivid visual and auditory image sets the mood for the time of evening. It becomes alive in metaphor of waning life where the breath and even light in ones eyes vacillates diming from time to time and rattle in ones voice like the clink of bottles comes at the end of day. All mark the twilight. So subtle and so short the poem, day and life. A fave
October 22nd, 2025 05:25
weapons of mass distraction
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik, it is always mankind that creates the problems.
Andy
October 22nd, 2025 01:10
Goldfinch60 said:
Fine words Rik, it is always mankind that creates the problems.
Andy
October 22nd, 2025 01:10
dance in the wake
Goldfinch60 said:
That love will never be forgotten Rik.
Andy
October 22nd, 2025 01:06
Goldfinch60 said:
That love will never be forgotten Rik.
Andy
October 22nd, 2025 01:06
weapons of mass distraction
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This is prophecy dressed in poetry. You hold up a mirror and make us see what we’ve become: worshippers of noise, terrified of quiet. Brilliant and unsettling, Arqios. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 21st, 2025 07:21
Tristan Robert Lange said:
This is prophecy dressed in poetry. You hold up a mirror and make us see what we’ve become: worshippers of noise, terrified of quiet. Brilliant and unsettling, Arqios. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 21st, 2025 07:21
weapons of mass distraction
sorenbarrett said:
A poem of warning that calls out on frayed wires to listeners that have put down the phone engaged in playing video games and watching tic tock. No one listens to the prophets or poets, eccentric or boring in a world of conformity, propaganda and action films. Well said Cryptic
October 21st, 2025 06:37
sorenbarrett said:
A poem of warning that calls out on frayed wires to listeners that have put down the phone engaged in playing video games and watching tic tock. No one listens to the prophets or poets, eccentric or boring in a world of conformity, propaganda and action films. Well said Cryptic
October 21st, 2025 06:37
dance in the wake
Salvia.S said:
This is a beautifully poignant poem—elegant and mournful, yet full of movement and quiet resilience. It captures the complexity of grief with grace, showing how loss and life can coexist like currents in a river. Very well written!!!
October 20th, 2025 11:05
Salvia.S said:
This is a beautifully poignant poem—elegant and mournful, yet full of movement and quiet resilience. It captures the complexity of grief with grace, showing how loss and life can coexist like currents in a river. Very well written!!!
October 20th, 2025 11:05
dance in the wake
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is breathtaking…grief and grace woven together until they’re indistinguishable. The river’s voice feels alive…haunted but unbroken. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 20th, 2025 10:55
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is breathtaking…grief and grace woven together until they’re indistinguishable. The river’s voice feels alive…haunted but unbroken. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 20th, 2025 10:55
dance in the wake
sorenbarrett said:
I have to say Cryptic you have a way with words and images to paint a metaphor that runs deep as the river at times murky like the river but clearing here and there to reveal the truth of such words and metaphor. It often winds and slows and speeds but always heads to the sea of meaning.
October 20th, 2025 07:51
sorenbarrett said:
I have to say Cryptic you have a way with words and images to paint a metaphor that runs deep as the river at times murky like the river but clearing here and there to reveal the truth of such words and metaphor. It often winds and slows and speeds but always heads to the sea of meaning.
October 20th, 2025 07:51
respectable
Goldfinch60 said:
Respect seems to have flown from our worlds Rik.
Andy
October 20th, 2025 02:13
Goldfinch60 said:
Respect seems to have flown from our worlds Rik.
Andy
October 20th, 2025 02:13
consolation in the kitchen
Friendship said:
This is a heartfelt poem. The poem uses the act of buttering toast as a powerful reminder to cherish life\'s precious moments while navigating the inevitability of loss and change, inspiring us to find strength, comfort, and hope in the bittersweet journey of existence.
October 19th, 2025 05:54
Friendship said:
This is a heartfelt poem. The poem uses the act of buttering toast as a powerful reminder to cherish life\'s precious moments while navigating the inevitability of loss and change, inspiring us to find strength, comfort, and hope in the bittersweet journey of existence.
October 19th, 2025 05:54
respectable
Friendship said:
Well written, the poem “Respectable” explores the complexities of self-identity and the ways in which love and desire can influence our perception of ourselves. It raises questions about authenticity versus the roles we play based on the expectations and desires of others.
October 19th, 2025 05:39
Friendship said:
Well written, the poem “Respectable” explores the complexities of self-identity and the ways in which love and desire can influence our perception of ourselves. It raises questions about authenticity versus the roles we play based on the expectations and desires of others.
October 19th, 2025 05:39
respectable
sorenbarrett said:
What a great topic Cryptic. I always viewed respectability as a zero sum game where no matter what you do you are only as good as the last thing you do and furthermore any bad perceived takes away something that can never be retrieved for the viewer never forgets and never forgives. Time becomes the enemy of the respected. With time the uncovering of past acts rusts the image of even the most respected for we are all human and error. Loved it and the provocation of thought that it inspired.
October 19th, 2025 05:03
sorenbarrett said:
What a great topic Cryptic. I always viewed respectability as a zero sum game where no matter what you do you are only as good as the last thing you do and furthermore any bad perceived takes away something that can never be retrieved for the viewer never forgets and never forgives. Time becomes the enemy of the respected. With time the uncovering of past acts rusts the image of even the most respected for we are all human and error. Loved it and the provocation of thought that it inspired.
October 19th, 2025 05:03
consolation in the kitchen
Goldfinch60 said:
May your toast always be buttered Rik.
Andy
October 19th, 2025 01:43
Goldfinch60 said:
May your toast always be buttered Rik.
Andy
October 19th, 2025 01:43
consolation in the kitchen
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this poem glows from the inside out. The everyday turned sacred, the ordinary act made eternal. You buttered existence itself and called it truth. Masterful, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 18th, 2025 08:09
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this poem glows from the inside out. The everyday turned sacred, the ordinary act made eternal. You buttered existence itself and called it truth. Masterful, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 18th, 2025 08:09
consolation in the kitchen
sorenbarrett said:
Deeply philosophical as well as poetic the two merge in this poem. The cutting edge reflective beams light or knowledge on the crust of surface. Man always strives to understand and accomplish the impossible. How do we retain what we consume? Keep clean that, that we dirty. We fool ourselves thinking that we can save the planet as we ravish it not noticing tomorrow that it has grown smaller and doing the same all over.
October 18th, 2025 06:28
sorenbarrett said:
Deeply philosophical as well as poetic the two merge in this poem. The cutting edge reflective beams light or knowledge on the crust of surface. Man always strives to understand and accomplish the impossible. How do we retain what we consume? Keep clean that, that we dirty. We fool ourselves thinking that we can save the planet as we ravish it not noticing tomorrow that it has grown smaller and doing the same all over.
October 18th, 2025 06:28
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