Rhumour I really like this. You are so right about the meanings of words being read differently, sometimes it is just reading between the lines which makes it happen, sometimes it is the mood of the reader which is different. I like the way you have ended it too

Jen

Many thanks Jen - it is much the same with beauty - in the eye of the beholder, hehe.  The ending of course was a slight dig at the irony of multibillion dollar industries selling services to undo the effects of a culture of excess promoted by other firms - do they have largely the same shareholders I wonder? 

 

Best wishes

Rhumour

 

 

 

 

Tonight I see the words

Written upon the screen

In my happy mood

I know just what they mean

 

Yet tomorrow if I am sad

And should read these words again

I may think I know

All the reasons for pain

 

So a reply right now

Seems rather good

I know I must

I know I should

 

Tis better to answer today

While I am happy

For tomorrow, who can say

My answer may be totally crappy

 

 

Hehe -soap boxes are a useful tool even today Maria - maybe we use the virtual ones more than previouslywith blogs, etc, but exchange of ideas outside the controlled parameters of the regular press is a fundamental need in any society..........

 

Best wishes

Rhumour

Oh what a pair of happy chappies

We have upon this site

I hope you're both still smiling

When I look again tonight

 

There is nothing like a smile

To keep misery at bay

And now I've had a chuckle

I too will smile all day

 

xx

This poem of yours, Rhumour, so well written, I think expresses the way we all feel when we post our poems on the net. Yes, people will interpret our words & our meaning differently to the way we have written them. I think this is a good thing, we are all individuals. Best wishes, Val.

Excellent stuff, Rhumour! It is always fascinating to see what different people get from the same poem.

 

And Rhumour, Steve & Jen;

 

I loved the rhymes you've all tacked on;

A veritable smileathon!

So thank you all, you've made me grin

So much I simply must join in!

 

Merlin

lol how I have enjoyed reading this and the great replies...strange isn't it how interpretation differ?...thats the beauty of poetry though..xx