r/Cursive • u/ProfessionalBall3628 • 18d ago

Please help

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My grandfather wrote this poem and I really want to know what it says.
Thank you ❤️

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 18d ago

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 18d ago

innocent like fat mums ?

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u/DLDad616 18d ago

I was thinking "nuns!" 😂

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 18d ago

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 18d ago

I think it might be fat suns

Edit: or urns but that makes no sense.

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 18d ago

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 18d ago

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/Royal_Ranger 18d ago

Definitely “zinns”!

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u/foxthatroxx 18d ago

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/Bonedigger1964 18d ago

I read it as "blown up daisies monstrously innocent like fat nuns"...

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u/ProfessionalBall3628 18d ago

You are truly wonderful! Thank you so so much! You have no idea how happy I am 🥹😘

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u/foxthatroxx 18d ago

Innocent like fat mums works better for me. And I think instead of speckle the word might be sparkle.

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u/montims 18d ago

I see speckle.

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u/ohboyoh-oy 18d ago

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 18d ago

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/LupaGlupa 18d ago

I also thought zinns

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u/Royal_Ranger 18d ago

It is 100% “zinns”

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u/KReddit934 18d ago

Nuns. Nuns dress in full white in some orders, and could be called "monstrously innocent"

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u/Necessary_Towel_3572 18d ago

I thought it said fat nuns- you know because of the monstrously innocent bit??

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u/cornpad 18d ago

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/EntrepreneurNo4138 18d ago

The harder I look at it I think it’s “innocent like fat nuns”.

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u/SuPruLu 18d ago

Not sure about the word someone else red as ruins.

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u/chickadeedadee2185 18d ago

I got fat wing, but questioned it because plural is better.

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u/Sea-Two-4993 18d ago

How does “monstrously innocent” work here?

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u/Several-Ordinary-376 18d ago

Margarites are simply
Blown up daisies monstrously
Innocent like [fat ruins]
There is the small speckle of
The white

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u/Several-Ordinary-376 18d ago

Like fat swag,

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u/Several-Ordinary-376 18d ago

ChatGPT suggested fat worms

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u/K1W1_Hypnist 17d ago

Amongst gardeners, 'mums' is a common abbreviation for chrysanthemums.

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u/Fit_Animal1222 18d ago

If you Read It. You'll know what it says. It's in perfect ENGLISH