Comments received on poems by Tristan Robert Lange
Should Sleep Spare
sorenbarrett said:
Here anxiety reins. For years suffered from bouts of anxiety some stimulus related. As a poet have tried to capture it in words that are never adequate. You have done well to image many of the symptoms but in this poem I see not just nightmares but day ones too. A life that we wake to each time we get into and out of bed. Anxiety a type of emotional pain draws all focus to it eliminating our view of the world around us. I like how you use alliteration to accentuate this obsessive focus. It is an autonomic process and your use of jolting current, tingling, cold sweat, knots all such involuntary processes works so well. It is indeed a war between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Well worked out this poem delivers to any that have suffered such. Very nicely done Tristan
April 14th, 2025 08:08
sorenbarrett said:
Here anxiety reins. For years suffered from bouts of anxiety some stimulus related. As a poet have tried to capture it in words that are never adequate. You have done well to image many of the symptoms but in this poem I see not just nightmares but day ones too. A life that we wake to each time we get into and out of bed. Anxiety a type of emotional pain draws all focus to it eliminating our view of the world around us. I like how you use alliteration to accentuate this obsessive focus. It is an autonomic process and your use of jolting current, tingling, cold sweat, knots all such involuntary processes works so well. It is indeed a war between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Well worked out this poem delivers to any that have suffered such. Very nicely done Tristan
April 14th, 2025 08:08
Should Sleep Spare
2781 said:
I\'ve had a couple of paralysing dreams last week.
Unusable for me to have that sort of thing, what\'s happening?
April 14th, 2025 08:01
2781 said:
I\'ve had a couple of paralysing dreams last week.
Unusable for me to have that sort of thing, what\'s happening?
April 14th, 2025 08:01
Should Sleep Spare
Cheeky Missy said:
Nightmares have been my fare waking and sleeping for over a decade until I cannot bear the seeming good wishes of souls who tell me \"sweet dreams!\" since I know too well such do not exist for me. And now, after a nightmare which left me in terror, what?! but you must ink it out on the main page????! What is happening?! Superbly rendered with not only excellent imagery but also that delicious skill utilizing consonance and methinks assonance, the haunting poignancy throttles the reader until who shall escape? Thank you for sharing. What on earth is...today?
April 14th, 2025 06:58
Cheeky Missy said:
Nightmares have been my fare waking and sleeping for over a decade until I cannot bear the seeming good wishes of souls who tell me \"sweet dreams!\" since I know too well such do not exist for me. And now, after a nightmare which left me in terror, what?! but you must ink it out on the main page????! What is happening?! Superbly rendered with not only excellent imagery but also that delicious skill utilizing consonance and methinks assonance, the haunting poignancy throttles the reader until who shall escape? Thank you for sharing. What on earth is...today?
April 14th, 2025 06:58
light & shadow
Mourgana of the Fey said:
The late winter moon is one of the finest because indeed like that image when in snowy weather moonlight is the most mysterious lantern there is!
Just last night it was the pink moon, spring moon. I didnt see the moon but full moons are vibrant energies. A lovely write!
April 14th, 2025 01:03
Mourgana of the Fey said:
The late winter moon is one of the finest because indeed like that image when in snowy weather moonlight is the most mysterious lantern there is!
Just last night it was the pink moon, spring moon. I didnt see the moon but full moons are vibrant energies. A lovely write!
April 14th, 2025 01:03
Words
NinjaGirl said:
Words cannot be weighed in kilograms, pounds, or stones, but they can be heavy. It seems it comes down to how much weight you choose to carry... This is a beautiful piece.
April 13th, 2025 15:14
NinjaGirl said:
Words cannot be weighed in kilograms, pounds, or stones, but they can be heavy. It seems it comes down to how much weight you choose to carry... This is a beautiful piece.
April 13th, 2025 15:14
Words
orchidee said:
We can\'t - or can\'t always - and we shouldn\'t really - write our poems to \'fit in\' with what we may feel will be acceptable to others. We certainly won\'t please all the people all of the time, as the saying goes.
At times, I feel I may write as if to suit others, but then sense I am being \'un-original\' and think \'That\'s not what I really wanted to write\' - certain line(s) or stanza(s).
An aside maybe - I rarely get the meanings of cryptic-themed poems! If I get too cryptic, I dunno what I\'m on about (no change there then? lol).
April 13th, 2025 14:45
orchidee said:
We can\'t - or can\'t always - and we shouldn\'t really - write our poems to \'fit in\' with what we may feel will be acceptable to others. We certainly won\'t please all the people all of the time, as the saying goes.
At times, I feel I may write as if to suit others, but then sense I am being \'un-original\' and think \'That\'s not what I really wanted to write\' - certain line(s) or stanza(s).
An aside maybe - I rarely get the meanings of cryptic-themed poems! If I get too cryptic, I dunno what I\'m on about (no change there then? lol).
April 13th, 2025 14:45
Words
Cheeky Missy said:
\"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.\"(Prov 18:21) Are there truly any inconsequential words? Is that not the reason our consciences torture us internally over this speech or that? Gorgeously rendered with excellent imagery and a keenly haunting poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 13th, 2025 13:14
Cheeky Missy said:
\"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.\"(Prov 18:21) Are there truly any inconsequential words? Is that not the reason our consciences torture us internally over this speech or that? Gorgeously rendered with excellent imagery and a keenly haunting poignancy. Thank you for sharing.
April 13th, 2025 13:14
Words
Poetic Licence said:
A very interesting and quite powerful write, first i think people can be to worried about what they write and how those words come across and then over analyze the words in response, and after all are probably no wiser. Secondly in person words are very powerful if you can see and hear them being said, then you can judge how they were meant to be recieved for good or bad, enjoyed the read
April 13th, 2025 10:16
Poetic Licence said:
A very interesting and quite powerful write, first i think people can be to worried about what they write and how those words come across and then over analyze the words in response, and after all are probably no wiser. Secondly in person words are very powerful if you can see and hear them being said, then you can judge how they were meant to be recieved for good or bad, enjoyed the read
April 13th, 2025 10:16
Words
Demar Desu said:
You put a lot of work into your brand and it’s respectable
April 13th, 2025 08:07
Demar Desu said:
You put a lot of work into your brand and it’s respectable
April 13th, 2025 08:07
Words
sorenbarrett said:
I obsess over words that I read and write wondering how others will take them or how I should have taken them usually to no avail. A wonderful read for poets
April 13th, 2025 07:39
sorenbarrett said:
I obsess over words that I read and write wondering how others will take them or how I should have taken them usually to no avail. A wonderful read for poets
April 13th, 2025 07:39
Words
arqios said:
Hellspiring acrimony requiring antigrav! Now there’s a paradigm shift that releases 🙏🏻🕊️
April 13th, 2025 07:02
arqios said:
Hellspiring acrimony requiring antigrav! Now there’s a paradigm shift that releases 🙏🏻🕊️
April 13th, 2025 07:02
The Spire
Mourgana of the Fey said:
I will have to summon the Valkyries maybe then the image would alter, jk of course
April 13th, 2025 02:13
Mourgana of the Fey said:
I will have to summon the Valkyries maybe then the image would alter, jk of course
April 13th, 2025 02:13
The Spire
Doggerel Dave said:
Appreciate I’m swimming against the tide here, Tristan; I see no phallic symbolism in steeples and tall slender industrial chimneys but can only marvel at the work undertaken to escape gravity. Certainly get no obeisance out of me! lol
Enjoyed the write and provocation..
April 12th, 2025 19:45
Doggerel Dave said:
Appreciate I’m swimming against the tide here, Tristan; I see no phallic symbolism in steeples and tall slender industrial chimneys but can only marvel at the work undertaken to escape gravity. Certainly get no obeisance out of me! lol
Enjoyed the write and provocation..
April 12th, 2025 19:45
The Spire
Poetic Licence said:
Hey look at me and do as your told feel to this write, to me it also looks like a phallic symbol which would he fair to say that people who behave this way are, enjoyed the read
April 12th, 2025 09:43
Poetic Licence said:
Hey look at me and do as your told feel to this write, to me it also looks like a phallic symbol which would he fair to say that people who behave this way are, enjoyed the read
April 12th, 2025 09:43
The Spire
sorenbarrett said:
So brief yet inspiring the metaphor can not go unnoticed if human the phallic symbol raised and reinforced by the line erected high gives the image that we are driven in demanded obedience being the only one in residence to follow. The primal urge to leave our seed upon the earth. The strongest drive next to survival air, water, food and shelter. A most lovely and powerful write
April 12th, 2025 09:21
sorenbarrett said:
So brief yet inspiring the metaphor can not go unnoticed if human the phallic symbol raised and reinforced by the line erected high gives the image that we are driven in demanded obedience being the only one in residence to follow. The primal urge to leave our seed upon the earth. The strongest drive next to survival air, water, food and shelter. A most lovely and powerful write
April 12th, 2025 09:21
The Spire
arqios said:
Short and powerful. Has a kind of LOTR feel to it as well🙏🏻🕊️
April 12th, 2025 09:04
arqios said:
Short and powerful. Has a kind of LOTR feel to it as well🙏🏻🕊️
April 12th, 2025 09:04
Oh Snap
teardrop said:
I am glad I read your comments on this piece for it made me reread it and even read it with a different perspective. Anxiety is and can be as sporadic as you very well described it. Great write, poet.
April 12th, 2025 04:43
teardrop said:
I am glad I read your comments on this piece for it made me reread it and even read it with a different perspective. Anxiety is and can be as sporadic as you very well described it. Great write, poet.
April 12th, 2025 04:43
Oh Snap
Poetic Licence said:
A write of a largely ignored and unknown subject that many people suffer from in various levels, as the write says, the saying oh just snap out of it only heightens that anxiety because from my point of view, makes you so bloody angry, nice to see a write on this subject.
April 11th, 2025 09:40
Poetic Licence said:
A write of a largely ignored and unknown subject that many people suffer from in various levels, as the write says, the saying oh just snap out of it only heightens that anxiety because from my point of view, makes you so bloody angry, nice to see a write on this subject.
April 11th, 2025 09:40
Oh Snap
sorenbarrett said:
Anxiety one of the biggest killers, raise blood pressure, alters sugar consumption by the body, increases heart rate among other things. Alters perception, decreases concentration, makes sleep more difficult. A much needed write on a subject too neglected
April 11th, 2025 08:58
sorenbarrett said:
Anxiety one of the biggest killers, raise blood pressure, alters sugar consumption by the body, increases heart rate among other things. Alters perception, decreases concentration, makes sleep more difficult. A much needed write on a subject too neglected
April 11th, 2025 08:58
Oh Snap
arqios said:
Oh the joy and frustration of triggers in our day to day lives!🙏🏻🕊️
April 11th, 2025 07:30
arqios said:
Oh the joy and frustration of triggers in our day to day lives!🙏🏻🕊️
April 11th, 2025 07:30
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