Comments received on poems by arqios
V.I.P.
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, I’ve seen that same varnish at work…the way power cloaks itself in respectability while truth gets filed away. You’ve voiced it fearlessly. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 31st, 2025 07:48
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, I’ve seen that same varnish at work…the way power cloaks itself in respectability while truth gets filed away. You’ve voiced it fearlessly. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 31st, 2025 07:48
closing the distance
Paul Bell said:
Good hand-me-downs were like Christmas and certainly no shame.
Climbing a tree was a challenge, and if you fell and broke something, so be it.
It feels strange, but I never saw it as poverty, and I think I had a better time than the kids today who have everything but don\'t seem to have anything.
October 31st, 2025 07:08
Paul Bell said:
Good hand-me-downs were like Christmas and certainly no shame.
Climbing a tree was a challenge, and if you fell and broke something, so be it.
It feels strange, but I never saw it as poverty, and I think I had a better time than the kids today who have everything but don\'t seem to have anything.
October 31st, 2025 07:08
closing the distance
sorenbarrett said:
There is soul in this poem, not the flare and flash of sequined ball gowns but the time worn wrinkled hands of one that has lived it all and knows the worth of what holds value. A warm tenderness of understanding and the home felt handshake of belonging and feeling welcome to all the world poor as it is. A feeling of giving and gracious receiving. It is the soul that gives value to this poem. Lovely
October 31st, 2025 05:26
sorenbarrett said:
There is soul in this poem, not the flare and flash of sequined ball gowns but the time worn wrinkled hands of one that has lived it all and knows the worth of what holds value. A warm tenderness of understanding and the home felt handshake of belonging and feeling welcome to all the world poor as it is. A feeling of giving and gracious receiving. It is the soul that gives value to this poem. Lovely
October 31st, 2025 05:26
V.I.P.
Goldfinch60 said:
Such true words Rik. As I have said many times \"When do you know when a politician is lying?\" \"Their lips move!\".
Andy
October 31st, 2025 02:26
Goldfinch60 said:
Such true words Rik. As I have said many times \"When do you know when a politician is lying?\" \"Their lips move!\".
Andy
October 31st, 2025 02:26
V.I.P.
sorenbarrett said:
Some really great lines here my friend to pick a few:
\"they enter not with boots but brogues—
shined mirror-bright, reflection-proof\"
The possible double meaning here in that brogues can be well shined dress shoes as well as rough untanned leather. Both reflected in the second line where they are shined and reflection proof. This is the metaphor of having it both ways.
\"each law passed a paper boat folded with invisible ink\"
A most lovely metaphor filled with so many possible meanings. The paper boat a child\'s toy reflecting how they treat the recipients, easily replaced, disposable. The invisible ink (they may call it transparent) its fine details not seen by mortal eye. Then there is the word play in the line
\"here to serve,\" they say while quietly
serving seconds to the highest bidder\"
A masterful satire that reads so clearly and unfortunately is so true. A fave
October 30th, 2025 05:53
sorenbarrett said:
Some really great lines here my friend to pick a few:
\"they enter not with boots but brogues—
shined mirror-bright, reflection-proof\"
The possible double meaning here in that brogues can be well shined dress shoes as well as rough untanned leather. Both reflected in the second line where they are shined and reflection proof. This is the metaphor of having it both ways.
\"each law passed a paper boat folded with invisible ink\"
A most lovely metaphor filled with so many possible meanings. The paper boat a child\'s toy reflecting how they treat the recipients, easily replaced, disposable. The invisible ink (they may call it transparent) its fine details not seen by mortal eye. Then there is the word play in the line
\"here to serve,\" they say while quietly
serving seconds to the highest bidder\"
A masterful satire that reads so clearly and unfortunately is so true. A fave
October 30th, 2025 05:53
\"the inviolable\"
orchidee said:
Inviolable reminds me of violin for some unknown reason. Not got the foggiest idea why. lol.
There\'s the saying \'And breathe....\' when we\'re all in a state, in a tizzy, having a hissy fit maybe. heehee.
October 29th, 2025 10:08
orchidee said:
Inviolable reminds me of violin for some unknown reason. Not got the foggiest idea why. lol.
There\'s the saying \'And breathe....\' when we\'re all in a state, in a tizzy, having a hissy fit maybe. heehee.
October 29th, 2025 10:08
\"the inviolable\"
orchidee said:
Inviolable reminds me of violin for some unknown reason. Not got the foggiest idea why. lol.
There\'s the saying \'And breathe....\' when we\'re all in a state, in a tizzy, having a hissy fit maybe. heehee.
October 29th, 2025 10:08
orchidee said:
Inviolable reminds me of violin for some unknown reason. Not got the foggiest idea why. lol.
There\'s the saying \'And breathe....\' when we\'re all in a state, in a tizzy, having a hissy fit maybe. heehee.
October 29th, 2025 10:08
\"the inviolable\"
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this piece is an invocation to hold steady amid collapse. Sparse, potent, and quietly defiant...the poem itself becomes the inviolable. Well done, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 29th, 2025 09:27
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Arqios, this piece is an invocation to hold steady amid collapse. Sparse, potent, and quietly defiant...the poem itself becomes the inviolable. Well done, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 29th, 2025 09:27
workday residue
NafisaSB said:
a sad and haunting poem - hope it is just one of its kind - am accustomed to more cheer from here....
October 29th, 2025 07:26
NafisaSB said:
a sad and haunting poem - hope it is just one of its kind - am accustomed to more cheer from here....
October 29th, 2025 07:26
\"the inviolable\"
sorenbarrett said:
Although I am most sure this is not what was in mind when written, this piece evokes numerous feeling and thoughts. Breath one of the first words we think that when no other word was available meant to live or be alive, since only breathing distinguished between the living and inanimate. Later to become the word I denoting that a person was a living and existing entity. To breath is the foundation of meditation where one becomes inviolable to all outside oneself. It is the center of our being beginning and staying at our center, from brain stem, autonomic nervous system to lungs and diaphragm. It is our core. In controlling one\'s breathing one controls the outside and steadies the vessel. A deep write with the simplicity of breathing.
October 29th, 2025 05:56
sorenbarrett said:
Although I am most sure this is not what was in mind when written, this piece evokes numerous feeling and thoughts. Breath one of the first words we think that when no other word was available meant to live or be alive, since only breathing distinguished between the living and inanimate. Later to become the word I denoting that a person was a living and existing entity. To breath is the foundation of meditation where one becomes inviolable to all outside oneself. It is the center of our being beginning and staying at our center, from brain stem, autonomic nervous system to lungs and diaphragm. It is our core. In controlling one\'s breathing one controls the outside and steadies the vessel. A deep write with the simplicity of breathing.
October 29th, 2025 05:56
when we thought ourselves lost
Goldfinch60 said:
Each mark in our lives sustains the memory of time Rik.
Andy
October 29th, 2025 02:45
Goldfinch60 said:
Each mark in our lives sustains the memory of time Rik.
Andy
October 29th, 2025 02:45
when we thought ourselves lost
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this is luminous…quiet revelation in motion. It reads like faith rediscovered through imperfection. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 28th, 2025 07:47
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Rik, this is luminous…quiet revelation in motion. It reads like faith rediscovered through imperfection. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 28th, 2025 07:47
when we thought ourselves lost
sorenbarrett said:
The mark of a great poet built on the foundation of a philosopher where hidden in the words is the message, a key to knowledge that only those that desire it will find it. Lovely Cryptic and another fave
October 28th, 2025 05:38
sorenbarrett said:
The mark of a great poet built on the foundation of a philosopher where hidden in the words is the message, a key to knowledge that only those that desire it will find it. Lovely Cryptic and another fave
October 28th, 2025 05:38
first light
Doggerel Dave said:
The mood of the moment simply portrayed. Definitely a case of less is more.
October 27th, 2025 17:54
Doggerel Dave said:
The mood of the moment simply portrayed. Definitely a case of less is more.
October 27th, 2025 17:54
first light
Kevin Hulme said:
Dawn and Dusk : Such magical times . Good one.
October 27th, 2025 10:17
Kevin Hulme said:
Dawn and Dusk : Such magical times . Good one.
October 27th, 2025 10:17
first light
Paul Bell said:
Like the slow start to this.
You can see him sitting contemplating the day ahead, and who knows, it might be a better day.
October 27th, 2025 09:46
Paul Bell said:
Like the slow start to this.
You can see him sitting contemplating the day ahead, and who knows, it might be a better day.
October 27th, 2025 09:46
dance in the wake
Tristan Robert Lange said:
You are most welcome, my friend
October 27th, 2025 09:24
Tristan Robert Lange said:
You are most welcome, my friend
October 27th, 2025 09:24
first light
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is gentle grace in motion…a meditation of breath and light. The stillness feels sacred. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 27th, 2025 09:16
Tristan Robert Lange said:
My friend, this is gentle grace in motion…a meditation of breath and light. The stillness feels sacred. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 27th, 2025 09:16
herd of words
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Reading this felt like running with it myself…each poet part of something greater, the ground and sky shared. It reminds me why we write at all. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 27th, 2025 08:53
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Reading this felt like running with it myself…each poet part of something greater, the ground and sky shared. It reminds me why we write at all. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
October 27th, 2025 08:53
first light
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic in this poem I see a metaphor about hope that turns faith then knowledge that light comes after the dark and there is always a new beginning. Lovely set in beautiful imagery.
October 27th, 2025 06:11
sorenbarrett said:
Cryptic in this poem I see a metaphor about hope that turns faith then knowledge that light comes after the dark and there is always a new beginning. Lovely set in beautiful imagery.
October 27th, 2025 06:11
herd of words
Goldfinch60 said:
Great words Rik, my herd has risen today.
Andy
October 27th, 2025 02:19
Goldfinch60 said:
Great words Rik, my herd has risen today.
Andy
October 27th, 2025 02:19
herd of words
Doggerel Dave said:
\'Tis my belief that every (or most) people have an element of truth within them - some have the ability to turn that into poetry or verse, some don\'t, but the sometimes single sliver of truth remains.
October 26th, 2025 17:52
Doggerel Dave said:
\'Tis my belief that every (or most) people have an element of truth within them - some have the ability to turn that into poetry or verse, some don\'t, but the sometimes single sliver of truth remains.
October 26th, 2025 17:52
herd of words
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine write as always. A good Metaphor too.
October 26th, 2025 15:42
Kevin Hulme said:
A fine write as always. A good Metaphor too.
October 26th, 2025 15:42
herd of words
rhmn_7 said:
Poets and poetry, thundering together, that is a powerful description indeed!
October 26th, 2025 15:37
rhmn_7 said:
Poets and poetry, thundering together, that is a powerful description indeed!
October 26th, 2025 15:37
herd of words
Paul Bell said:
Long may it continue, a letter a word a sentence, and before you know it, a poem.
October 26th, 2025 11:52
Paul Bell said:
Long may it continue, a letter a word a sentence, and before you know it, a poem.
October 26th, 2025 11:52
herd of words
orchidee said:
A fine write A. I wandered the plain - but fell in a bog! Doh! LOL.
October 26th, 2025 10:51
orchidee said:
A fine write A. I wandered the plain - but fell in a bog! Doh! LOL.
October 26th, 2025 10:51
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