Nightshade
arqios said:

The opening lines reminded me of belladonna nightshade, shivers🙏🏻🕊️

March 31st, 2025 09:35

An Abrupt Visitor
Salvia.S 🌹 said:

A dark and unsettling confrontation with the inevitability of Death.

March 31st, 2025 07:59

An Abrupt Visitor
arqios said:

That really shook me… first being flustered then lost then realising, so much like cancer but no so much more… and just as the word formed, like the Prestige, the reveal slams head on and on time! Death. 🕊🙏🏻

March 30th, 2025 19:58

An Abrupt Visitor
sorenbarrett said:

It comes for everyone big or small, young or old, rich or poor it is the great equalizer and in my mind the justice of the universe that treats everyone equally. The use of the word (I am) is in my mind a reference to what the Bible calls God\'s name. It is powerful and seems meant to shake the reader to the core. As for me I look at it as an old friend that I have seen the face of many times in the past, sometimes as a visitor come to call on friends and family and at others an me but decided to leave early with a promise to return latter. Loved the poem

March 30th, 2025 08:42

unsafe at any speed
Mutley Ravishes said:

I remember reading the fourth chapter of Jonathan Livingston Seagull where the author tells us what\'s coming, wrapped in the cloak of \"safety.\"
I\'m not good at reading longer pieces, but this one pulled me along nicely!

March 30th, 2025 02:04

unsafe at any speed
Poetic Licence said:

Wow that must of driving you insane writing this piece!!!, as you read it don\'t know why you find yourself going faster and faster and your heads going to explode in a fun way. The problem with what\'s safe and what is not, over here they are constantly changing there minds, you end up in a loony bin just trying to up with it all, really entertaining mind boggling read

March 29th, 2025 11:21

unsafe at any speed
Cheeky Missy said:

Hmm. Aka \"safe\" discussed herein at length, who doesn\'t take chances? At least the section of society from which I come forbade such experiments, until I dasn\'t come any closer than my profession forces me to do. Guess I prefers to take my chances with a ton of bacon and beef. What is far more fascinating to yours truly is the sheer coincidental timing of THIS pretty number and my own life, eerily. I never once considered while on the clock late Thursday that I\'d be reading such a gorgeous tribute in a matter of hours. La dee. Superbly rendered with such charming effects the reader, unconsciously drawn in, takes a ride on the wilder side, dumped, head spinning, safely [hahaha] sans any clinging, damning odors, the imagery excellent and poignancy haunting with an unidentified note. Thank you for sharing.

March 29th, 2025 09:18

Enemy
NinjaGirl said:

Sometimes, often even, death is more welcoming than those who claim to care for you

March 28th, 2025 20:48

Post-Scientific Method
arqios said:

Without humility any discipline goes awry🙏🏻🕊

March 28th, 2025 17:35

Post-Scientific Method
orchidee said:

That\'s a lot of science(s)! lol.

March 28th, 2025 12:27

Post-Scientific Method
Cheeky Missy said:

Dang! Take me by the hand and lead me through the famed labyrinth trolled by the Minotaur, endeavouring to persuade me that....I shan\'t die, after all?! You\'ve successfully lead my poor mind through so many gyrations it\'s spinning like it would topple off and roll away. No wonder philosophers go wonky. [Albeit I still mourn Phaedrus and deplore what they did when they caught him, as delineated in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.] Fascinating and rendered to effect with such interesting facets as it trickles down the page, loaded with excellent imagery, what a haunting poignancy this pretty number owns! Thank you for sharing.

March 28th, 2025 09:28

Post-Scientific Method
sorenbarrett said:

This poem opens doors to the mind. So many that believe in ultimate truth, reality, right and wrong and here is introduced the idea that there is not but that all change and all can never be fully known. A integration of all points of view are more viable. Eastern medicine integrated with western medicine science with religion with psychology and philosophy. In this process maybe we will loose a little of our arrogance and recover a little humility that will allow us to see further. A fave

March 28th, 2025 09:15

Enemy
rebellion_in_sanity said:

I got a feeling of being dragged in front of the mirror and a voice telling me to open my eyes and to open my mind. The treatment of death is masterful. In my humble opinion it is one of the finest pieces - accessible yet deep as an ocean

March 28th, 2025 07:59

Enemy
Poetic Licence said:

What a wonderful write, the enemy within, how we nurture hate ourselves and feed it untill then it takes us over and imprisons us, that we cannot think anything different, loved the read

March 27th, 2025 11:38

Enemy
Damaso said:

Avoiding the brain\'s traps in its enormous labyrinth. \"Falling through a skimpy sieve\" is exquisite. I really liked that image. Speechless. Cheers.

March 27th, 2025 10:11