Comments received on poems by arqios
peel back the neon
Goldfinch60 said:
Truth is within us all arqios but many do not want to show it.
Andy
June 28th, 2025 01:24
Goldfinch60 said:
Truth is within us all arqios but many do not want to show it.
Andy
June 28th, 2025 01:24
peel back the neon
Doggerel Dave said:
Surfaces and superficiality a constant of modern city life. To peer past them (the peel) can be very hard. Takes time and energy, while everything and everyone races on… Here’s hoping that makes sense within the context of your piece, mate.
June 27th, 2025 20:48
Doggerel Dave said:
Surfaces and superficiality a constant of modern city life. To peer past them (the peel) can be very hard. Takes time and energy, while everything and everyone races on… Here’s hoping that makes sense within the context of your piece, mate.
June 27th, 2025 20:48
peel back the neon
David Wakeling said:
Wow this creates such powerful images.Peel back the neon and what remains. For some its a living for others its a death.For me I avoid the bright lights of the city as much as I can.Give the home among the gum trees...lots of plum trees etc.Powerful poem very thought provoking.Well done
June 27th, 2025 17:19
David Wakeling said:
Wow this creates such powerful images.Peel back the neon and what remains. For some its a living for others its a death.For me I avoid the bright lights of the city as much as I can.Give the home among the gum trees...lots of plum trees etc.Powerful poem very thought provoking.Well done
June 27th, 2025 17:19
peel back the neon
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
Peel Back the Neon\" hits with raw, electric energy—stripping away pretense and embracing the unvarnished truth. The imagery is vivid, from \"citrus and static\" to \"tongues dyed bright,\" painting defiance in neon hues. There\'s a fierce authenticity here, a refusal to be softened or decoded. The lines \"No algorithm knows how hard we hit / when we hit with nothing to prove\" especially resonate—this is poetry that doesn’t perform, it strikes. The final reveal, \"something too loud to fake,\" lingers like the hum of a live wire. Brilliant, unapologetic work.
June 27th, 2025 14:43
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
Peel Back the Neon\" hits with raw, electric energy—stripping away pretense and embracing the unvarnished truth. The imagery is vivid, from \"citrus and static\" to \"tongues dyed bright,\" painting defiance in neon hues. There\'s a fierce authenticity here, a refusal to be softened or decoded. The lines \"No algorithm knows how hard we hit / when we hit with nothing to prove\" especially resonate—this is poetry that doesn’t perform, it strikes. The final reveal, \"something too loud to fake,\" lingers like the hum of a live wire. Brilliant, unapologetic work.
June 27th, 2025 14:43
peel back the neon
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Love this poem, my friend. Glad you published it! That ending...killer. Absolutely killer. And profoundly true. Well done on this, my friend! 🌹👏
June 27th, 2025 11:06
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Love this poem, my friend. Glad you published it! That ending...killer. Absolutely killer. And profoundly true. Well done on this, my friend! 🌹👏
June 27th, 2025 11:06
peel back the neon
Poetic Licence said:
The search fot truth and the many ways it is hidden from us and the tools used to keep us in the dark, as the author says peel it all back and you will find the truth, nicely expressed and written
June 27th, 2025 09:14
Poetic Licence said:
The search fot truth and the many ways it is hidden from us and the tools used to keep us in the dark, as the author says peel it all back and you will find the truth, nicely expressed and written
June 27th, 2025 09:14
peel back the neon
Friendship said:
Peel Back the Neon\" revolves around the exploration of authenticity and the struggle against superficiality. It emphasizes the necessity of confronting harsh truths while celebrating the raw, vibrant essence of human experience that lies beneath the bright, artificial facade of modern life. The Poet seeks to challenge readers to look beyond the surface and confront the complexities of their own truths. It serves as a reminder of the loud, authentic voices that often go unheard beneath the clamor of a superficial world.
June 27th, 2025 07:17
Friendship said:
Peel Back the Neon\" revolves around the exploration of authenticity and the struggle against superficiality. It emphasizes the necessity of confronting harsh truths while celebrating the raw, vibrant essence of human experience that lies beneath the bright, artificial facade of modern life. The Poet seeks to challenge readers to look beyond the surface and confront the complexities of their own truths. It serves as a reminder of the loud, authentic voices that often go unheard beneath the clamor of a superficial world.
June 27th, 2025 07:17
peel back the neon
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic this poem to me reflects modern technology and its affect on us. Technology nothing more than what we put into it is us in mechanical form. We decorate it with colors and lights. It brings in what we see as truth, the internet bringing us finger tip access to it. We hit the keys hard and despite the information we doubt what is true and what is not. It operates on algorithms. Each hit on the internet recorded knowing what we have been interested in and giving us new offerings as to what we may want to see but we proceed without any purpose or anything to prove. If we peel away the shell there is a truth too loud to ignore, a search for meaning, ease of life, truth but we find truth too loud to ignore. I\'m sure it has many other meanings and that is what make it great. A fave
June 27th, 2025 06:50
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic this poem to me reflects modern technology and its affect on us. Technology nothing more than what we put into it is us in mechanical form. We decorate it with colors and lights. It brings in what we see as truth, the internet bringing us finger tip access to it. We hit the keys hard and despite the information we doubt what is true and what is not. It operates on algorithms. Each hit on the internet recorded knowing what we have been interested in and giving us new offerings as to what we may want to see but we proceed without any purpose or anything to prove. If we peel away the shell there is a truth too loud to ignore, a search for meaning, ease of life, truth but we find truth too loud to ignore. I\'m sure it has many other meanings and that is what make it great. A fave
June 27th, 2025 06:50
in Wordsworth was my father\'s voice
Kevin Hulme said:
Touching Words on your Father. I miss mine also.
But as long as we think of them; They are always here .
June 26th, 2025 19:11
Kevin Hulme said:
Touching Words on your Father. I miss mine also.
But as long as we think of them; They are always here .
June 26th, 2025 19:11
apologies
Doggerel Dave said:
Elements here - kitchen, interaction felt very real. Again the smooth detail drew me in.👍
I don\'t believe your work here is overly endowed with rhyme! Forgiven and faved anyway...............
June 26th, 2025 16:15
Doggerel Dave said:
Elements here - kitchen, interaction felt very real. Again the smooth detail drew me in.👍
I don\'t believe your work here is overly endowed with rhyme! Forgiven and faved anyway...............
June 26th, 2025 16:15
apologies
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Oh wow! Just wow! Brilliant, Rik. Seriously, mate. Brilliant. This is perfection, imho. So I am just going to stop there and fave this! Well done! 🌹👏🤯 Oh, and if someone complained to me about writing, well I would not have thought to brilliantly write this. I would have just written \'em an epic, rhyming elegy, in ballad form. Methinks your approach might have been superior to mine! Just \'cause! 😏 And one more thing I noticed. An apologia is less an apology and more a defense in classical writing. This was a great apologia, not that you had to offer it. Glad you did! Guess I didn\'t just \"stop there\", now did I. 🤣🪞🫗🎼🙏
June 26th, 2025 10:23
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Oh wow! Just wow! Brilliant, Rik. Seriously, mate. Brilliant. This is perfection, imho. So I am just going to stop there and fave this! Well done! 🌹👏🤯 Oh, and if someone complained to me about writing, well I would not have thought to brilliantly write this. I would have just written \'em an epic, rhyming elegy, in ballad form. Methinks your approach might have been superior to mine! Just \'cause! 😏 And one more thing I noticed. An apologia is less an apology and more a defense in classical writing. This was a great apologia, not that you had to offer it. Glad you did! Guess I didn\'t just \"stop there\", now did I. 🤣🪞🫗🎼🙏
June 26th, 2025 10:23
apologies
Kevin Hulme said:
There\'s nothing wrong in writing Rhyme
I seem to do it all the time
If Free Verse is the Horse you ride
No fence or hill you\'ll need abide.
Enjoyed your Poem.
June 26th, 2025 09:27
Kevin Hulme said:
There\'s nothing wrong in writing Rhyme
I seem to do it all the time
If Free Verse is the Horse you ride
No fence or hill you\'ll need abide.
Enjoyed your Poem.
June 26th, 2025 09:27
apologies
Poetic Licence said:
Not sure if I have this right, but sounds like someone complaining about you having the ability to write in rhyme, which if is the case not sure what they are complaining about, to me you certainly have more than one style of writing, all enjoyable, nicely expressed and written
June 26th, 2025 06:21
Poetic Licence said:
Not sure if I have this right, but sounds like someone complaining about you having the ability to write in rhyme, which if is the case not sure what they are complaining about, to me you certainly have more than one style of writing, all enjoyable, nicely expressed and written
June 26th, 2025 06:21
apologies
sorenbarrett said:
Isn\'t that funny how habit shows through. Have been accused of it as well and it does not go over well in an argument or very serious times. Loved it
June 26th, 2025 05:02
sorenbarrett said:
Isn\'t that funny how habit shows through. Have been accused of it as well and it does not go over well in an argument or very serious times. Loved it
June 26th, 2025 05:02
apologies
David Wakeling said:
I think after awhile it becomes easy to write couplets in rhyme.No shame in that. An interesting reflection.Well done
June 26th, 2025 04:17
David Wakeling said:
I think after awhile it becomes easy to write couplets in rhyme.No shame in that. An interesting reflection.Well done
June 26th, 2025 04:17
lore-keeping
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
Celestial and cryptic, this poem unravels like starlight on silk. Hauntingly beautiful.
June 25th, 2025 14:00
Mottakeenur Rehman said:
Celestial and cryptic, this poem unravels like starlight on silk. Hauntingly beautiful.
June 25th, 2025 14:00
lore-keeping
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Well hello fellow explorer. I love the journeys your poems always take me on. Excellent job! 🌹👏
June 25th, 2025 09:25
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Well hello fellow explorer. I love the journeys your poems always take me on. Excellent job! 🌹👏
June 25th, 2025 09:25
in Wordsworth was my father\'s voice
Doggerel Dave said:
I can say nothing of the relationship, but the smoothness of the write carried me along and caught....something. Thanks.
June 25th, 2025 08:32
Doggerel Dave said:
I can say nothing of the relationship, but the smoothness of the write carried me along and caught....something. Thanks.
June 25th, 2025 08:32
lore-keeping
Poetic Licence said:
That\'s a delighted way to spend time uncoiling the springs of the mind, very enjoyable read
June 25th, 2025 07:52
Poetic Licence said:
That\'s a delighted way to spend time uncoiling the springs of the mind, very enjoyable read
June 25th, 2025 07:52
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