The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees
The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees
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I never could get into poems much, but this is genius.
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I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the iceboxand which
you were probably
saving
for breakfastForgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so coldI’m not a fan of poetry either, but this is one I really love. It’s simple, direct. I love the unrepentant nature of the speaker
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This poem was in my English classroom. I preferred the following one, though:
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said, “You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
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unsure if the translations work well in english but checkout Christian Morgenstern, he made similar "silly" poems
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Now I want some ASCII poems
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System logs are kind of like poems that sometimes include ASCII art
Also this reminded me of oscilloscope music where the sound make images on an oscilloscope so you watch as you hear the music
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Like the .nfo files of old? Also reminds me of the sick 8 bit songs on the keygens
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NFO files are still very popular. Long live the demoscene
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I'm assuming the letters at the bottom all "fell" from the tree, but I'm not going to confirm that.
Flared base for safety.
"turn to mush on the ground"
I think the other person meant that the missing letters up in the tree "leaves" form the ground row. So that the letters in the last row may complete all the other rows. I doubt that it matches but wont confirm that either.
I counted the letter "o". It doesn't match up.
I count three 'o's on the bottom, from "common", "problem", and "poems". Seems correct to me?
Edit:
Four 'u's from "deciduous", "autumn", and "until"; three 't's from "the", "the", and "themselves"; two 'r's from "stirrings" and "arrives"; three 'n's from "when", "begin", and "gently"...
Thanks for you work!