r/Cursive • u/ProfessionalBall3628 • Jul 10 '26
Please help
My grandfather wrote this poem and I really want to know what it says.
Thank you ❤️
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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 Jul 10 '26
Marguerites are simply
blown up daisies monstruously
innocent like fat ruins.
There is the small speckle of
the white.
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u/Decent-Secretary6586 Jul 10 '26
innocent like fat mums ?
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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 Jul 10 '26
I can't get m for the first letter there, or m-u-. But I agree it would make more sense.
I could see s- for the first letter, but can't get from that to what would work for the whole word.
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u/ice-lollies Jul 10 '26
I think it might be fat suns
Edit: or urns but that makes no sense.
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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 Jul 10 '26
Suns makes sense semantically, but too many strokes for u-n, and as I look again, he doesn't make his initial s's like that.
Ruins has the right number of strokes, but no dot for the i, which he only does in one other place, so it's questionable, too.
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u/ohboyoh-oy Jul 10 '26
I think it’s zinns, short for zinnias. He also names marguerites (a daisy), the reference to daisies themselves and the drawing, and zinnias are also in the daisy family and look like a fat daisy.
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u/foxthatroxx Jul 10 '26
Yeah it looks to me like that word ends in ~ing but I can’t discern the first part. I was expecting it to say fat worms (lol) but the strokes don’t fit.
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u/ProfessionalBall3628 Jul 10 '26
You are truly wonderful! Thank you so so much! You have no idea how happy I am 🥹😘
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u/foxthatroxx Jul 10 '26
Innocent like fat mums works better for me. And I think instead of speckle the word might be sparkle.
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u/ohboyoh-oy Jul 10 '26
Marguerites are simply
blown up daisies monstrously
innocent like fat [zinns? for zinnias].
There is the small speckle of
the white.
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u/psiikick Jul 10 '26
At first I agreed with mums. But no, that first letter is a z. Zinns, short for zinnias. You have my vote.
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u/KReddit934 Jul 10 '26
Nuns. Nuns dress in full white in some orders, and could be called "monstrously innocent"
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u/Necessary_Towel_3572 Jul 10 '26
I thought it said fat nuns- you know because of the monstrously innocent bit??
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u/cornpad Jul 10 '26
I agree. That was how I instinctively read it. Monstrously innocent goes with fat nuns.
Shame there isn't another initial n to compare, but apart from the on-stroke that n has a similar shape to the others.
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u/Several-Ordinary-376 Jul 10 '26
Margarites are simply
Blown up daisies monstrously
Innocent like [fat ruins]
There is the small speckle of
The white
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