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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 day ago

The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

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The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

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  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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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.

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      Flared base for safety.

    • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
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      “turn to mush on the ground”

      • toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org
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        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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          They do match. It’s pretty neat.

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

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        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”…

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          And a “d” gently falling to complete the word

          I love it, it’s a nice touch

        • bstix@feddit.dk
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          I never said I was good at counting.

          • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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            Found the LLM bot /s

      • toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org
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        Thanks for you work!

        • bstix@feddit.dk
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          Guess I was wrong. Maybe it adds up.

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    Cool idea but that was hard to read lol

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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      Once I figured out what was going on, reading it was much easier. Very clever.

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        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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      Yes, that’s the point

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

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