Comments received on poems by David Wakeling
The Little Girl who learned to love Lightning.
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, David, I really enjoyed this one. Watching courage begin so young and then become something she can draw upon years later gives the whole piece a beautiful emotional arc. There’s tenderness here without losing the danger underneath it. Great job, my friend. 🌩️❤️🙏🌹
August 26th, 2026 14:52
Tristan Robert Lange said:
Wow, David, I really enjoyed this one. Watching courage begin so young and then become something she can draw upon years later gives the whole piece a beautiful emotional arc. There’s tenderness here without losing the danger underneath it. Great job, my friend. 🌩️❤️🙏🌹
August 26th, 2026 14:52
The Little Girl who learned to love Lightning.
sorenbarrett said:
David either I am experiencing deja vu or this is one from the past dusted off. A wonderful story with a moral.
August 26th, 2026 04:06
sorenbarrett said:
David either I am experiencing deja vu or this is one from the past dusted off. A wonderful story with a moral.
August 26th, 2026 04:06
I can’t breathe (the actual words of Former Slaves).
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is devastating. The historical testimony makes the persistence of racial violence impossible to dismiss. An important and deeply affecting piece, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 25th, 2026 18:47
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is devastating. The historical testimony makes the persistence of racial violence impossible to dismiss. An important and deeply affecting piece, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 25th, 2026 18:47
I can’t breathe (the actual words of Former Slaves).
sorenbarrett said:
A sad write that emphasizes human views of property and lack of compassion to humanity. Today capitalism survives and is driven by greed where the object of the game is to deprive another of their property and acquire for oneself. Although individual slavery is prohibited we are owned by employers and governments and beaten with whips of taxes and eminent domain. Well written.
August 25th, 2026 04:29
sorenbarrett said:
A sad write that emphasizes human views of property and lack of compassion to humanity. Today capitalism survives and is driven by greed where the object of the game is to deprive another of their property and acquire for oneself. Although individual slavery is prohibited we are owned by employers and governments and beaten with whips of taxes and eminent domain. Well written.
August 25th, 2026 04:29
I can’t breathe (the actual words of Former Slaves).
orchidee said:
Good write D. Man\'s inhumanity to man.
August 25th, 2026 02:22
orchidee said:
Good write D. Man\'s inhumanity to man.
August 25th, 2026 02:22
The Soft Prayer
orchidee said:
Yet sometimes, in life, though this poem can relate to dying, we may say prayers aiming to keep us cosy and wrapped in cotton wool, as it were. But then we find that real life isn\'t like that.
August 24th, 2026 08:55
orchidee said:
Yet sometimes, in life, though this poem can relate to dying, we may say prayers aiming to keep us cosy and wrapped in cotton wool, as it were. But then we find that real life isn\'t like that.
August 24th, 2026 08:55
The Soft Prayer
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is deeply moving and unsettling. Sacred language becomes a plea for release from unbearable suffering...quiet, devastating, and painfully intimate. Powerful work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 24th, 2026 08:02
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is deeply moving and unsettling. Sacred language becomes a plea for release from unbearable suffering...quiet, devastating, and painfully intimate. Powerful work, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 24th, 2026 08:02
The Soft Prayer
sorenbarrett said:
Such a lovely metaphor for the process of death and a call for calm and peace a fave
August 24th, 2026 04:37
sorenbarrett said:
Such a lovely metaphor for the process of death and a call for calm and peace a fave
August 24th, 2026 04:37
Sleep takes my hand..
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this carries the peaceful freedom of surrendering to a dream and discovering that love remains beyond every boundary. Beautifully imaginative and deeply comforting, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 23rd, 2026 12:45
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this carries the peaceful freedom of surrendering to a dream and discovering that love remains beyond every boundary. Beautifully imaginative and deeply comforting, my friend. 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 23rd, 2026 12:45
Sleep takes my hand..
arqios said:
That bit of Magic’s good in full doses at the weary side of everyday🙏🏻🕊️
August 23rd, 2026 05:27
arqios said:
That bit of Magic’s good in full doses at the weary side of everyday🙏🏻🕊️
August 23rd, 2026 05:27
Sleep takes my hand..
sorenbarrett said:
The questioning of reality in a dream where images bend and melt. Surreal and dream like it floats in rhyme. Well done David
August 23rd, 2026 03:58
sorenbarrett said:
The questioning of reality in a dream where images bend and melt. Surreal and dream like it floats in rhyme. Well done David
August 23rd, 2026 03:58
The Original
arqios said:
We are often a blend of the original and the copied just to make our daily bread, an earned pass to participate and exist. I had a friend once that told me in my face that it wasn\'t my family and associations that mattered to them but me for myself. Such a good friend they were!
August 21st, 2026 20:05
arqios said:
We are often a blend of the original and the copied just to make our daily bread, an earned pass to participate and exist. I had a friend once that told me in my face that it wasn\'t my family and associations that mattered to them but me for myself. Such a good friend they were!
August 21st, 2026 20:05
The Original
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a compelling poem, David! We all create from inherited language, experience, and influence, yet I wonder whether originality might still emerge through the singular way each person combines them. The closing Ferris wheel leaves that question circling long after the poem ends. Excellent work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 21st, 2026 09:58
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a compelling poem, David! We all create from inherited language, experience, and influence, yet I wonder whether originality might still emerge through the singular way each person combines them. The closing Ferris wheel leaves that question circling long after the poem ends. Excellent work, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
August 21st, 2026 09:58
The Original
sorenbarrett said:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 There is nothing new under the sun... comes to mind with this poem David. Well written and makes one wonder what one\'s purpose is if there is nothing new that one can contribute. Well done my friend.
August 21st, 2026 04:12
sorenbarrett said:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 There is nothing new under the sun... comes to mind with this poem David. Well written and makes one wonder what one\'s purpose is if there is nothing new that one can contribute. Well done my friend.
August 21st, 2026 04:12
The Poet adrift at Sea.
arqios said:
Someone once said that we are dying from the moment we are born🙏🏻🕊️
July 29th, 2026 08:46
arqios said:
Someone once said that we are dying from the moment we are born🙏🏻🕊️
July 29th, 2026 08:46
The Poet adrift at Sea.
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a wonderfully imaginative poem, David! Benjamen’s predicament becomes a meditation on mortality, divine mystery, and the curious human need to create even while danger surrounds us. The dark humor gives it real character. Terrific work, my friend. 🌊✍️⛵💀🙏
July 29th, 2026 08:17
Tristan Robert Lange said:
What a wonderfully imaginative poem, David! Benjamen’s predicament becomes a meditation on mortality, divine mystery, and the curious human need to create even while danger surrounds us. The dark humor gives it real character. Terrific work, my friend. 🌊✍️⛵💀🙏
July 29th, 2026 08:17
The Poet adrift at Sea.
sorenbarrett said:
Adversity becomes opportunity in this write. Adrift becomes poetic and rescue comes in time. Well written David
July 29th, 2026 04:22
sorenbarrett said:
Adversity becomes opportunity in this write. Adrift becomes poetic and rescue comes in time. Well written David
July 29th, 2026 04:22
My House My Grave
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is absolutely hilarious! The determined misunderstanding grows more ridiculous with every exchange...all while Dawn’s despair goes spectacularly unheard. One heck of a piece, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 28th, 2026 20:45
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this is absolutely hilarious! The determined misunderstanding grows more ridiculous with every exchange...all while Dawn’s despair goes spectacularly unheard. One heck of a piece, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 28th, 2026 20:45
My House My Grave
arqios said:
A dark comedy about miscommunication, loneliness, and a mother who is completely useless at emotional support. Dawn is trying to talk about her pain, but her mother keeps derailing the conversation with silly, wrong clichés, replacing every “dog” idiom with “kitten.” The humor masks something sad: Dawn is desperate, and her mother refuses to hear her.
July 28th, 2026 16:13
arqios said:
A dark comedy about miscommunication, loneliness, and a mother who is completely useless at emotional support. Dawn is trying to talk about her pain, but her mother keeps derailing the conversation with silly, wrong clichés, replacing every “dog” idiom with “kitten.” The humor masks something sad: Dawn is desperate, and her mother refuses to hear her.
July 28th, 2026 16:13
My House My Grave
sorenbarrett said:
A fun play on old cliches in a most satirical manner that somehow makes sense. Who is spring\'s mother? Is it winter for a mother must be born before a child and that would make Autumn a grand parent but then summer would be a child. I\'m confused. Oh well back to the kittens. Is it raining cats and kittens, in a kitten eat kitten world, A lucky kitten and top kitten. sick as a kitten, and being in the kitten house, let sleeping kittens lie, work like a kitten, every kitten has its day oh hell there are too many. A fun read my friend
July 28th, 2026 04:50
sorenbarrett said:
A fun play on old cliches in a most satirical manner that somehow makes sense. Who is spring\'s mother? Is it winter for a mother must be born before a child and that would make Autumn a grand parent but then summer would be a child. I\'m confused. Oh well back to the kittens. Is it raining cats and kittens, in a kitten eat kitten world, A lucky kitten and top kitten. sick as a kitten, and being in the kitten house, let sleeping kittens lie, work like a kitten, every kitten has its day oh hell there are too many. A fun read my friend
July 28th, 2026 04:50
The CAT.
arqios said:
I like how the moment is kept small here, a cat being entirely itself, with a mix of indifference and quiet presence felines seem to master. A scene that feels easy and unforced with a humour that sits lightly on it. Most thoroughly enjoyed. 🙏🕊️🤩
July 27th, 2026 23:32
arqios said:
I like how the moment is kept small here, a cat being entirely itself, with a mix of indifference and quiet presence felines seem to master. A scene that feels easy and unforced with a humour that sits lightly on it. Most thoroughly enjoyed. 🙏🕊️🤩
July 27th, 2026 23:32
The CAT.
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this really moved me. The weariness and longing settle so deeply here…a quietly devastating reflection on growing older. Powerful poem, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 27th, 2026 09:00
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, this really moved me. The weariness and longing settle so deeply here…a quietly devastating reflection on growing older. Powerful poem, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
July 27th, 2026 09:00
The CAT.
orchidee said:
Good write D. We have two cats - one mainly \'indoors\', on mainly \'outdoors\'.!
July 27th, 2026 08:18
orchidee said:
Good write D. We have two cats - one mainly \'indoors\', on mainly \'outdoors\'.!
July 27th, 2026 08:18
The CAT.
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful rhyme scheme to this poem that with metaphor tells its tale with a cat tail. loved it a fave
July 27th, 2026 04:20
sorenbarrett said:
A wonderful rhyme scheme to this poem that with metaphor tells its tale with a cat tail. loved it a fave
July 27th, 2026 04:20
Sunday’s candle is done.
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, what a wildly unsettling piece! The absurd humor lowers our guard before the darkness takes complete control...and that closing leaves no room for escape. Quite the devastating turn, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️
July 26th, 2026 18:03
Tristan Robert Lange said:
David, what a wildly unsettling piece! The absurd humor lowers our guard before the darkness takes complete control...and that closing leaves no room for escape. Quite the devastating turn, my friend! 🌹🖤🙏🕯️
July 26th, 2026 18:03
Sunday’s candle is done.
arqios said:
A fragile beauty Sunday is as a butterfly opening its wings. Such is the mourning of a quiet passing of day that has brought warmth, gentleness and sanctuary which shall bequeath itself to Monday. 🙏🕊️
July 26th, 2026 07:40
arqios said:
A fragile beauty Sunday is as a butterfly opening its wings. Such is the mourning of a quiet passing of day that has brought warmth, gentleness and sanctuary which shall bequeath itself to Monday. 🙏🕊️
July 26th, 2026 07:40
Sunday’s candle is done.
sorenbarrett said:
Tragedy befalls young rash decisions and the folly becomes tragedy. Well written my friend.
July 26th, 2026 03:51
sorenbarrett said:
Tragedy befalls young rash decisions and the folly becomes tragedy. Well written my friend.
July 26th, 2026 03:51
BETRAYAL.
Paul Bell said:
I would imagine a lot of people with potential stay hidden, some through shyness, others fearing rejection.
A lot mind you, portray themselves through others.
For every superstar out there, you can bet someone in the background writes their songs, arranges the music, makes them better.
July 25th, 2026 10:09
Paul Bell said:
I would imagine a lot of people with potential stay hidden, some through shyness, others fearing rejection.
A lot mind you, portray themselves through others.
For every superstar out there, you can bet someone in the background writes their songs, arranges the music, makes them better.
July 25th, 2026 10:09
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