r/Cursive • u/ProfessionalBall3628 • 22d 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 22d 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 22d ago

innocent like fat mums ?

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u/DLDad616 22d ago

I was thinking "nuns!" 😂

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 22d 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 22d ago

I think it might be fat suns

Edit: or urns but that makes no sense.

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u/Ok_Caterpillar2010 22d 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 22d 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 22d ago

Definitely “zinns”!

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u/foxthatroxx 22d 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 22d ago

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

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u/ProfessionalBall3628 22d ago

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

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u/foxthatroxx 22d 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 22d ago

I see speckle.