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The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m assuming the letters at the bottom all “fell” from the tree, but I’m not going to confirm that.

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    • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Flared base for safety.

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    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      “turn to mush on the ground”

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      • toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        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.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I counted the letter “o”. It doesn’t match up.

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      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I count three os on the bottom, from “common”, “problem”, and “poems”. Seems correct to me?

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      • toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thanks for you work!

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cool idea but that was hard to read lol

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    • thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Once I figured out what was going on, reading it was much easier. Very clever.

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      • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Even then I had a hard time. “ar ives” gave me a hard time because I assumed "ar " was “are” and spent too long figuring out what “ives” was supposed to be

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    • Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s the point

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I never could get into poems much, but this is genius.

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    • Bldck@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have eaten
      the plums
      that were in
      the icebox

      and which
      you were probably
      saving
      for breakfast

      Forgive me
      they were delicious
      so sweet
      and so cold

      I’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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      • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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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    • taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      unsure if the translations work well in english but checkout Christian Morgenstern, he made similar “silly” poems

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  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Now I want some ASCII poems

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    • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like the .nfo files of old? Also reminds me of the sick 8 bit songs on the keygens

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      • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        NFO files are still very popular. Long live the demoscene

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    • fascicle@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      System logs are kind of like poems that sometimes include ASCII art

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    • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      https://preshing.com/20110926/high-resolution-mandelbrot-in-obfuscated-python/

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