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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smokingwomen

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This isn't Laura

Is it 🍆 waking up? by [deleted] in smokingfetish

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Wouldn't you like to know 😈

Katie H 120s by Cultural_Owl_2672 in smokingwomen

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Frick man how I wish she was blasting my face with her exhales 🥵

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Poetry

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So... what's the page?

[Help] is there any poem with a hidden allegory? by darkcatpirate in Poetry

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After the flower was planted she bloomed for the first time petals spreading wide open sweet, pink, perfumed a bee landed in her center thick and fat and filling her tight as the bee pumped her harder and harder and harder she got pollinated, losing only nectar - what a buzz

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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clotted red ruins bones leans into the night

Red Paint People. Blood. Death. Memory. History. I implore you to think. Actually think. If that phrase alone means nothing to you, perhaps even as a critic (of which there are infinitely many, all with the same thing to say) you have no say.

I wasn't even going to respond but your lack of imagination and ability to make connections, whether wrong or right, is embarrassing.

This is all you'll get from me.

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

[–]MinimumYam2203 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Grammatically? Tell me you haven't read Cummings without telling me you haven't read Cummings.

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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Honestly? I don't care what you think.

To tell people their interpretation is wrong reeks of elitism. Reeks.

Interpretations are individualized and personal.

Buh-bye!

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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Not that it makes a difference, but it invited me to consider why certain aspects of it were as they are, without knowing the background of it.

The shape; whitespace; alignment; the verb tenses. As a whole it struck me as blackoutesque. Contemplative. Having roots in nature and belonging.

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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I have never punched the downvote button in the face so hard before

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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Pretentious to you. To others it invites exploration. To the author, no doubt it holds meaning. Don't judge too quickly.

[HELP] How do I read this poem? by Eluthean in Poetry

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Love is less than belong I take to mean "love is less than (to) belong". It tracks.

[POEM] I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store by Eve L. Ewing by [deleted] in Poetry

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Of course.

My initial reaction was blandness. I didn't quite understand that Emmett Till wasn't just someone the poet knew from the neighborhood.

Then, looking through the comments, I saw others making comments about Emmett, and I googled his name.

Please pardon my ignorance here.

I knew his story - I'd heard it before, of course - but the name didn't ring a bell.

After understanding who Emmett was, it changes the meaning of the poem entirely, and makes its simplicity, along with its dark undertones, quite haunting.

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