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1. What does, “the rain will always place me/beneath you” mean? What is it referring to. I kind of interpreted this piece as the person died, so now they become a cloudy sky

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   1. Is meaning that important?
      —
      since feeling is first
      who pays any attention
      to the syntax of things
      will never wholly kiss you;

      wholly to be a fool
      while Spring is in the world

      my blood approves,
      and kisses are a better fate
      than wisdom
      lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
      – the best gesture of my brain is less than
      your eyelids’ flutter which says

      we are for each other; then
      laugh, leaning back in my arms
      for life’s not a paragraph

      And death i think is no parenthesis

      E. E. Cummings

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      1. Jesus Christ 😯😯😯 this is incredible and exactly what I needed to read. Noted; will never ask for meaning of the poem again 🙏🏾

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      2. heheh, I’m picking on you.. it’s okay, I just envy your youth.. 🙂 Let me tell you a secret: the reason I started to translate anything half a decade ago was because the words drew me in, but I had no idea what it meant.. The “experts” keeps saying how amazing I was, my poor grasp of the Vietnamese language and yet I could translate poetry of all things.. I thought it was obvious, I translated into a language I am familiar with with the hope of understanding some of it. Some poems evolved for me over the years as my grasp for their vernacular grew stronger, but the origina; feeling remains true to the very first moment I read it. Like love at first sight. I read so much poetry that I find most poetry like most human condition strenuous and boring, most people never try.. they walk through life like zombies like their poetry. They spend so much time worrying how it all looks, but they fail to be sincere. I prefer a badly written with sincerity than a well written one that taste like cardboard… heheh– thanks for putting up with my verbal diarrhoea

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      3. Hahahah “verbal diarrhea” 😂😂😂 whatever you think of what you wrote, I love it! On that note, I hope my poetry doesn’t taste like cardboard to you! 😯 If any of it does, I am so so so so so soooooo open to feedback pleaseeeee!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾

         A while ago, my relationship with my best friend crumbled. I was LIVID at him because he’s the one who was crumbling the relationship while I was screaming, suffering and trying to save the pieces. At the very end of our relationship, he wrote me a poem. I spent nearly 3 years reading the poem—lost as could be of its meaning—until one day I realized: the poem is an apology letter where he explains (super poetically 🙄) how I changed his life for the best, that the end is all his fault, but why he couldn’t be in the relationship anymore. So, in a way, I get what you mean by some poems evolved for you over the years. Anyways, wow, that kid was always a much much much better poet than I was (and maybe could ever be)—and he never even tried! It’s a shame that such good talent is going to waste.

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      4. It’s life, it’s complicated, and letting go is not easy. Embracing one’s nature/gift is something else for another day perhaps? But, one thing I do know is that when you’re not ready, you’re not ready, no one else can tell you otherwise. Here’s cheer to Sir Charles the Poet!

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      5. I do hope he comes around to it. But he is a talented kid overall so I’m not worried about him at all. I wish him the best. Cheers to you too, Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm! 🙏🏾

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      6. ❤

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      7. Did you see my reply?

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      8. Oh you probably have to approve it haha

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