Max Reif Comments

Max has a gift in his honesty and his narrative skill. Reading his work uplifts my spirit and informs the sense that we are all on a journey. While he is a mystical poet there is a gritty honesty`that I admire.

Max Reif has a bit of magic in his pen.That magic drags the reader into a poem and feeds soul. Leaving them utterly sated when the poem is done.

Max. You continue to amaze and impress. Your poetry - and it is sheer poetry (and usually in motion) always inspires. I am grateful. t xxx

I see that you've started numbering your poems. I haven't had much time to catch up on my reading lately, so I don't know when this numerical order began or exactly what it means. Perhaps, the numbered writings are ones in which you place higher confidence or pride? Are these the poems you wish for readers to pay special attention to?

Max, Max, Max. I have assumed for months now that I've expressed how much I love reading your work, and just now realized that I haven't on your site. Well, here goes. Everytime I see a new one by you I have to follow the white mouse and check it out. Whenever I need a quick poetry fix or food for thought, I often wander your way. And let's give a round of applause one more time for the high you gave us all by lending your voice to our work on acidplanet to bring our words to life! You are one of the most sincere, informative, and generous souls on this site, and it would not be the same without you! Keep up the good work, Dude. Now get back to writing.

The ability of Max to plunge you into painful, hysterics or profound thought is this poet's greatest gift. Yet there is a thread that seems to run through his works and that is spiritualism (not in the occult meaning but as something; a faith, that is ever present) . Maxs' worldview shine through each line of his, yet he is never preachy, never dogmatic. He can be self depricatious as well as seriously projecting himself, at the same time. All this sound as if Max is practiced in multi skills. But Max is only versed in one approach and that is the Art of being Max.

Often times when reading the words of Mr. Reif, I realize what is good and pure about poetry. Life, as it comes one step at a time for someone who truly knows how to observe a moment. This site is a better place because of his presence, I hope he continues to share his thoughts with us. Always, Amberlee Carter

Great word's touch my heart that is MAX REIF poem's...

it is 2005...u are good...please continue...xxx

Max, thank you for commenting on my work. I have now been reading yours and find there is a lovely simplicity of statement in it - an enchanting mix of worldly and unworldly. I came to poetry late in life, that's why I think I'll be finishing early, rather than later! ! Regards, Gol

Max, I enjoy and admire your honesty, simplicity, clarity, and that touch of magic. I hope you keep on writing, and there's a book there eventually...

If idiom is tone-if it can be-as I suspect it is in many of the poems of yours I've read-then it offers an exotic and impressive mixture of sense and sensibility, wisdom in worldliness, & worldy things, amusing & always vulnerable, enchanting, haunting & dear.