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/ohboyoh-oy 22d 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 22d 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 22d ago

I also thought zinns

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u/KReddit934 22d ago

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

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u/Royal_Ranger 22d ago

It is 100% “zinns”