The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees

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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 335d (11 replies)

I'm assuming the letters at the bottom all "fell" from the tree, but I'm not going to confirm that.

snooggums@piefed.world · 26 pts · 335d

Flared base for safety.

Derpenheim@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 335d (2 replies)

"turn to mush on the ground"

toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org · 24 pts · 335d (1 reply)

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.

oxideseven@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 335d

They do match. It's pretty neat.

bstix@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 335d (6 replies)

I counted the letter "o". It doesn't match up.

porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 335d (3 replies)

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"...

thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe · 10 pts · 335d

And a "d" gently falling to complete the word

I love it, it's a nice touch

bstix@feddit.dk · 9 pts · 335d (1 reply)

I never said I was good at counting.

elvith@feddit.org · 6 pts · 335d

Found the LLM bot /s

toxoplasma0gondii@feddit.org · 1 pts · 335d (1 reply)

Thanks for you work!

bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 335d

Guess I was wrong. Maybe it adds up.

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 335d (4 replies)

Cool idea but that was hard to read lol

thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz · 19 pts · 335d (2 replies)

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

FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d (1 reply)

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

_g_be@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d

Yes this was also where my understanding was at it's lowest before figuring out what was going on

Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 335d

Yes, that's the point

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 23 pts · 335d (1 reply)

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

taaz@biglemmowski.win · 1 pts · 335d

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

usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 335d (4 replies)

Now I want some ASCII poems

fascicle@leminal.space · 5 pts · 335d

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

bryndos@fedia.io · 2 pts · 335d
_g_be@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 334d (1 reply)

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

yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d

NFO files are still very popular. Long live the demoscene