Meh...

Looked at the clouds passing overhead earlier, all the pictures within them, and this cr@p fell into my head when I thought about it. Spell-checked it, otherwise its raw and unpolished.

Sometimes, polish can wipe away the emotional dimension... I'm not entirely sure those are right words to describe what I'm trying to say, but close enough.

Nice work.

Nice. Very Nice.

Had to read it a second time to appreciate it.

I think it's quite compelling. What I took from it: Life, though we try to change it and understand it, it means different things to different people. Life can't really be defined by any one person's view of it, so whatever one might say is only "rippled mist" compared to what life really is.

What do you think, John?

@ orkhammer - Words can always be right, even when they were made for something else, context and feeling give the real meaning; not a dictionary. And thanks...I get very few "your writing sucks" replies on here, we need more of those for balance.

@ Alex - I had to read it a few times before I got it as well, thats the truth too. And thanks my friend.

@ Jerry - And people say I read allot into things. But honestly, you did stumble on the gist of what wrote that. Life is not a single concept, or a single entity at all; it's what we see, and how we interpret it. It was said, long ago, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; life too is a creation of the eyes that view it...never the same from two views at once, or from the same view at two different times.

Heheh, normally I don't ponder out the 'whys' of what I write, its interesting to really think of what spurred the pen.

Lovely as always.
And, naturally, in the games category.

I don't really get poetry, but your seems to have a lot of imagery

I like it, very well done.

oh that canvas is looking for trouble! nice work john boy1

I don't really have anything to say right now.

I find the raw things that come out of a person's head are better left unpolished sometimes! By the way, still planning on writing that book?

Well done man!

good poem john, i can admit i hate poetry with a passion, (although when i did coursework for english GCSE on war poetry i liked that, it had nothing at all to do with the imagery of thousands of people dying pointlessly) but yours is very good, and can evoke a wide range of thoughts and emotions, and can have many different interpretations. i think you should collect it all together and try and get it copyrighted/published eventually.. and putting it up on the internet when it is as good as yours is a sure fire way of getting it copied by someone else, who then gets rich off it.. or some crap like that.

'Tis good stuff sir. Good to hear you're still alive out there somewhere too.

Very inspirational, better than anything I've heard in a long time (poem wise)...