It is a never-ending sea of words,
Sliced in neatly portioned threads
On a speckless slate gray background.
At dusk, it hits my eyes daily,
As the sunset would in a world of bits.
Perhaps sometimes too bold or too italic
I am forever drawn to its shores.

Some see no meaning to this place -
Empty, like a hollow moon on a sky
Where gods and trolls assemble
To shower us with burning commentary
And enigmatic dark blue puzzles.

A cup of tea giving off the only right kind of steam
And I know that I am in this place
Looking at its decrepit walls.
Though flawed, erratic and unreal,
It is what gathers strangers
In momentary thought exchange -
A nexus of fools and dreams.

How true and rather good:)

Thanks I guess. It's not bad, but I really did use to be quite good at these things, now I'm just rusty.

I meant this thread as:
a) A tribute to a fantastic game, the only one I know of to feature a poetry button.
b) A challenge to write your own, in the same I76 style. I promise to provide feedback using the classic I76 replies such as: "Wahahow!", "Maybe you should get some help man", "Man, that's heavy" etc.

The theme would, of course, be GOG or the GOG forums.

poems is sposed to rhyme
you silly uncultured nincompoop
the similarity sublime
art of alphabet soup

tis but words without a rhythm;
I cannot dance with your poem
a sad and soulless idiom
unspirited, never driven home

could never say the same of mine
for mine could stick in your head
but leave in your heart a truth
beyond time
beyond thought
beyond words
without rhyme a poem is dead

Just like a painting's colors give it all its flair?
Perhaps you're being just a tad selective.
By focusing on what is not there, is it fair
To disconsider shapes and their perspective?

A poem holds a thought between its lines,
Expressing it as whispers in a storm -
It's surely not important if it rhymes
As long as it transcends its static form.