Comments received on poems by arqios
on forgetting
Doggerel Dave said:
Forgetting/remembering; the whole process(s) is problematic from the get-go. I have always had trouble here – one of many deficits I’ve contended with for a lifetime. Agreed, it hasn’t got better, but I can’t remember if it has got worse…
July 24th, 2026 16:14
Doggerel Dave said:
Forgetting/remembering; the whole process(s) is problematic from the get-go. I have always had trouble here – one of many deficits I’ve contended with for a lifetime. Agreed, it hasn’t got better, but I can’t remember if it has got worse…
July 24th, 2026 16:14
on forgetting
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a beautifully contemplative piece, Rik! The restraint gives its sorrow tremendous depth...and its acceptance feels tender without becoming reassuring. I have felt that ache of reaching inward and finding only traces where something complete once lived. This truly moved me, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 24th, 2026 09:39
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a beautifully contemplative piece, Rik! The restraint gives its sorrow tremendous depth...and its acceptance feels tender without becoming reassuring. I have felt that ache of reaching inward and finding only traces where something complete once lived. This truly moved me, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 24th, 2026 09:39
on forgetting
sorenbarrett said:
Entropy of the mind a constant force it erodes and changes perceptions for the better or worse. Those canyons worn channel water of thought cutting deeper gorges below cliffs of hard sediment rock of prejudice layers of past perceptions. Particles of truth carried and buried under the silt of time. of A wonderful piece Cryptic that speaks to the distortion that happens in the mind. Loved it
July 24th, 2026 06:03
sorenbarrett said:
Entropy of the mind a constant force it erodes and changes perceptions for the better or worse. Those canyons worn channel water of thought cutting deeper gorges below cliffs of hard sediment rock of prejudice layers of past perceptions. Particles of truth carried and buried under the silt of time. of A wonderful piece Cryptic that speaks to the distortion that happens in the mind. Loved it
July 24th, 2026 06:03
on forgetting
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
Such beautiful reflection a fav
July 24th, 2026 05:55
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
Such beautiful reflection a fav
July 24th, 2026 05:55
daze
RSM0812 said:
Very secriptive in few words yet creates a beautiful and calm scene in the imagination. Nice job.
July 24th, 2026 05:08
RSM0812 said:
Very secriptive in few words yet creates a beautiful and calm scene in the imagination. Nice job.
July 24th, 2026 05:08
daze
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is absolutely beautiful. The stillness feels deeply restorative...a brief sanctuary from everything clamoring beyond it. Wonderful work, Arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 23rd, 2026 08:33
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is absolutely beautiful. The stillness feels deeply restorative...a brief sanctuary from everything clamoring beyond it. Wonderful work, Arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 23rd, 2026 08:33
in the shallow trench of your stride
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, Rik! This feels ancient, reverent, and profoundly human. The land remembers someone history has forgotten, and the living continue within what they left behind. That connection across time hit me hard. Outstanding work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 23rd, 2026 08:05
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, Rik! This feels ancient, reverent, and profoundly human. The land remembers someone history has forgotten, and the living continue within what they left behind. That connection across time hit me hard. Outstanding work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 23rd, 2026 08:05
daze
sorenbarrett said:
Sol invictus the sun god of our ancestors Ra Frasier\'s golden bough to which we bow where as Muslim to the east disguised in Mohamud\'s tomb and Meca or the Mason\'s four directions. Nature itself bows to the east awaiting the sun\'s raise. Clever title daze as in days Well done my friend.
July 23rd, 2026 05:41
sorenbarrett said:
Sol invictus the sun god of our ancestors Ra Frasier\'s golden bough to which we bow where as Muslim to the east disguised in Mohamud\'s tomb and Meca or the Mason\'s four directions. Nature itself bows to the east awaiting the sun\'s raise. Clever title daze as in days Well done my friend.
July 23rd, 2026 05:41
in the shallow trench of your stride
arqios said:
Thanks Kevin, it does feel that the whole poem hangs on that single line. 🙏🕊️
July 22nd, 2026 19:52
arqios said:
Thanks Kevin, it does feel that the whole poem hangs on that single line. 🙏🕊️
July 22nd, 2026 19:52
in the shallow trench of your stride
Kevin Hulme said:
\'But I walk in the Shadow of your Passing\', says it all . A fave.
July 22nd, 2026 19:32
Kevin Hulme said:
\'But I walk in the Shadow of your Passing\', says it all . A fave.
July 22nd, 2026 19:32
in the shallow trench of your stride
sorenbarrett said:
How many have passed before us on this track we tread we in their shadows. Well written Cryptic
July 22nd, 2026 06:32
sorenbarrett said:
How many have passed before us on this track we tread we in their shadows. Well written Cryptic
July 22nd, 2026 06:32
in the shallow trench of your stride
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a most beautiful piece and a fav
July 22nd, 2026 05:57
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a most beautiful piece and a fav
July 22nd, 2026 05:57
until the cosmos speaks
Goldfinch60 said:
That light will always be there for us all, Rik.
Andy
July 22nd, 2026 01:46
Goldfinch60 said:
That light will always be there for us all, Rik.
Andy
July 22nd, 2026 01:46
until the cosmos speaks
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is absolutely mesmerizing. Creativity becomes something immense and almost unbearable here…a universe demanding release through the fragile limits of the human mind. Brilliant work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 21st, 2026 20:19
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is absolutely mesmerizing. Creativity becomes something immense and almost unbearable here…a universe demanding release through the fragile limits of the human mind. Brilliant work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 21st, 2026 20:19
until the cosmos speaks
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is absolutely mesmerizing. Creativity becomes something immense and almost unbearable here…a universe demanding release through the fragile limits of the human mind. Brilliant work, my friend! 🌌🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 21st, 2026 20:19
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this is absolutely mesmerizing. Creativity becomes something immense and almost unbearable here…a universe demanding release through the fragile limits of the human mind. Brilliant work, my friend! 🌌🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 21st, 2026 20:19
until the cosmos speaks
Kevin Hulme said:
If the Aspirins don\'t work on a Headache, I have a Pistol on standby.🤕 Unusual to compare a Headache to the Universe. But the Brain as this vast System of Stars and Galaxies. I can see your point. Well Written Poem.
Also when Typing the word Poem, does anyone keep typing Piem all the time. Drives me Mad . Now where\'s that Pistol?.
July 21st, 2026 18:56
Kevin Hulme said:
If the Aspirins don\'t work on a Headache, I have a Pistol on standby.🤕 Unusual to compare a Headache to the Universe. But the Brain as this vast System of Stars and Galaxies. I can see your point. Well Written Poem.
Also when Typing the word Poem, does anyone keep typing Piem all the time. Drives me Mad . Now where\'s that Pistol?.
July 21st, 2026 18:56
until the cosmos speaks
Thomas W Case said:
A headache becomes a universe here, pain transformed into something strangely beautiful.
The poet’s curse and gift collide—too many stars burning inside one small human skull.
July 21st, 2026 08:12
Thomas W Case said:
A headache becomes a universe here, pain transformed into something strangely beautiful.
The poet’s curse and gift collide—too many stars burning inside one small human skull.
July 21st, 2026 08:12
until the cosmos speaks
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a fine write my friend, pulsating lines
July 21st, 2026 05:19
nephilim56 ( Norman Dickson) said:
a fine write my friend, pulsating lines
July 21st, 2026 05:19
until the cosmos speaks
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic I imagined the nervous system as the cosmos as I read this, neurons, dendrites, synapses, chemical interactions, receptor sites, neurotransmitters, positive negative charges, sodium potassium pump all firing in synchrony a cosmos a universe within the brain. Nicely done Cryptic
July 21st, 2026 05:08
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic I imagined the nervous system as the cosmos as I read this, neurons, dendrites, synapses, chemical interactions, receptor sites, neurotransmitters, positive negative charges, sodium potassium pump all firing in synchrony a cosmos a universe within the brain. Nicely done Cryptic
July 21st, 2026 05:08
a summer bug in the ear
Kevin Hulme said:
Variety is the Spice etc.
Good Write.
July 20th, 2026 15:53
Kevin Hulme said:
Variety is the Spice etc.
Good Write.
July 20th, 2026 15:53
a summer bug in the ear
Neville said:
Neva be pigeon holed or confined to any one model, poetic genre or particular paradigm is my motto .. be prepared to learn to grow and always write on .. N 😎
July 20th, 2026 11:28
Neville said:
Neva be pigeon holed or confined to any one model, poetic genre or particular paradigm is my motto .. be prepared to learn to grow and always write on .. N 😎
July 20th, 2026 11:28
a summer bug in the ear
Tristan Robert Lange said:
3️⃣ My friend, this speaks directly to something I consider when building collections. A familiar cadence may serve individual poems beautifully, yet a full body of work needs contrast, surprise, and room to move. Loved this, arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 08:45
Tristan Robert Lange said:
3️⃣ My friend, this speaks directly to something I consider when building collections. A familiar cadence may serve individual poems beautifully, yet a full body of work needs contrast, surprise, and room to move. Loved this, arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 08:45
a quiver of poets
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, my friend...this is one hell of a metaphor! Poets become a collective of trembling truth-bearers whose words seek to pierce indifference and reach what people keep protected. Beautiful, intelligent, and deeply resonant. Brilliant work, arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 07:52
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, my friend...this is one hell of a metaphor! Poets become a collective of trembling truth-bearers whose words seek to pierce indifference and reach what people keep protected. Beautiful, intelligent, and deeply resonant. Brilliant work, arqios! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 20th, 2026 07:52
a summer bug in the ear
orchidee said:
We\'ll be sick if everyone brings chocolate cake. lol. Good write A.
A summer bug in the ear? Someone sent me away with a \'flea in my ear\'! lol.
July 20th, 2026 06:54
orchidee said:
We\'ll be sick if everyone brings chocolate cake. lol. Good write A.
A summer bug in the ear? Someone sent me away with a \'flea in my ear\'! lol.
July 20th, 2026 06:54
a summer bug in the ear
sorenbarrett said:
Once again my friend you have brought complexity to simplicity and metaphorically set the place at the feast\'s table. Poetry one course and how boring if everyone brings a cake sweet and chocolaty iced with love\'s sweet syrup. How much better a variety of bitter and sweet, sour and salty. Not with artificial sweeteners but the real sugar from the cane. And even then when full a pause to let all digest with pleasant conversation before sitting for another course, a cigar for some a nightcap for others maybe an after dinner mint. Another fav my friend thank you for the meal
July 20th, 2026 05:31
sorenbarrett said:
Once again my friend you have brought complexity to simplicity and metaphorically set the place at the feast\'s table. Poetry one course and how boring if everyone brings a cake sweet and chocolaty iced with love\'s sweet syrup. How much better a variety of bitter and sweet, sour and salty. Not with artificial sweeteners but the real sugar from the cane. And even then when full a pause to let all digest with pleasant conversation before sitting for another course, a cigar for some a nightcap for others maybe an after dinner mint. Another fav my friend thank you for the meal
July 20th, 2026 05:31
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