unlikely treasures

arqios


Notice of absence from arqios
Hoping to get back to more standard interaction soon. Didn’t anticipate the toll on my personal time of late, So please forgive this current post-and-run M.O. 🙏🏻🕊️


Discarded thoughts collide,
cast aside once too many times;
now stride across crumpled sheets,
from creative springs that rise,
fuelling the pen and paper set alight.

Ideas once buried, now burst forth:

a battered note, a torn-out page,
exploding in fervent rage... each
critic's stab, each cut so deep,
pickaxes unearthing jewels, rough
but each one worth their keep.

 

 

 

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  • sorenbarrett

    A poet's work here. Miners of jems that come rough and uncut from the ground, They require polishing and cutting. Very nicely mined and cut in this poem

    • arqios

      Thanks Soren 🙏🏻

    • Tony36

      Great write

      • arqios

        Thanks Tony 🙏🏻

        • Tony36

          You're welcome

        • Poetic Licence

          I have learnt a lot reading your poetry, i enjoy reading it and it always raises questions for me, this one makes me think of me. Thank you

          • arqios

            Glad you mentioned that, it makes all of this worthwhile, thank you 🙏🏻

            • Poetic Licence

              you are very welcome

            • Tristan Robert Lange

              A wonderful, bejeweled write, my friend! I always enjoy stopping by and reading your words! 🌹👏 Faved.

              • arqios

                So glad there is enjoyment to be had here. Makes it all worthwhile 🙏🏻thanks kindly.

                • Tristan Robert Lange

                  You are welcome, my friend!

                • Neville



                  its what we do and how we go about achieving it .. each individual word a potential gem or invaluable nugget .. building blocks .. a part of a whole .. a process of construction .. or something very much like that .. maybe .. Neville

                  • arqios

                    Process yes, construction: as you have aptly put it…”maybe.” Perhaps it could also be seen as puzzle pieces waiting to be put together? to be united and slotted in? Maybe 🤔… thanks again 🙏🏻

                  • Cassie58

                    You have summed up a poet’s lot here. All those discarded thoughts and graveyard poems. Very relatable arqios. Nicely composed.

                    • arqios

                      Graveyard! Yes! Thanks Cassie. 🙏🏻

                    • David Wakeling

                      Pickaxes unearthing jewels, Great work. It captures the creative mind

                      • arqios

                        Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho! It’s off to write we go…

                      • Goldfinch60

                        Those words of the past often come back to be written down arqios.

                        Andy

                        • arqios

                          They do indeed, Andy. Thank you 🙏🏻

                        • Teddy.15

                          Such wonderful metaphor and imagery, a wonderful piece of poetry, I was once told by a very wise poet that in fact it is the poet who should enjoy his poem, if others do then it's a bonus. Gorgeous dear arqios 🌹

                          • arqios

                            That is so true! Thanks Teddy🙏🏻

                          • Thomas W Case

                            Tremendous work.

                            • arqios

                              Thanks TWC 🙏🏻

                            • NafisaSB

                              absolutely 'worth their keep' - brilliant share

                              • arqios

                                Thanks safina 🙏🏻

                                • NafisaSB

                                  you are welcome
                                  thanks for sharing



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