#Dream of March

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thorny thorn
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This one is really interesting... There's a lot of things going on... I was very confused at parts like "how to accept the grave not for eternity but for the arm that has to go"

I sat there and tried to make sense of it... I ended up on the interpretation of letting go of a piece of you instead of being stuck.

The last line confused me with how abruptly it went from the imagery and deterministic nature of a candle's smoke to the nature of love.

To me it reads as a person wanting to break their patterns.

The beginning of the poem sounds to me like wanting to burn down something painful.

And the part about perennial flowers and resilience sounds like a desire for... Stability, reliability, predictably.

Maybe the smoke from the candle was a slow burn pattern of love that was too predictable in a painful way, unlike the wildfire depicted in the beginning...

fair minnow
# thorny thorn This one is really interesting... There's a lot of things going on... I was very...

Hi thank you so much for your detailed thoughts and feedback, it‘s much appreciated! ❣️

I don‘t want to overexplain, but you‘re definitely right that I intended to capture the act of letting go with this one. With the flower regrowth reference, which I consider does have multi-layered meaning, I do want to address a type of rebirth in terms of reinventing oneself, or one‘s life. So resilience, as in not turning back, moving on from past pains and letting go, goes together in my mind.
the candle burning only in one way is about the directionality of life. only way through is forward and vice versa.

does that make sense to you?

thorny thorn
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Yeah that makes perfect sense!
I think the beauty in your poem is that because the symbols you use are universal and multi-faceted, the reader projects their own lens onto the symbols and sees the idea of love through their own lived experiences, thus "invent(ing) new ways of love" that the author did not intend.

You definitely get the sense that the author wishes to come back to life after experiencing a tower event.

grizzled flower
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It feels like its about layers of sacrifice an framing it in a way

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but more about the thought process than just the act or knowing

fair minnow
thorny thorn
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Off topic but may I dm you?

fair minnow