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Hmm yes!! This is so interesting, thank you for sharing! I LOVE this original one and agree with Marisa, it feels more raw & real-- probably because it is! They are both beautiful, though, just slightly different like you said! I wonder if other poets are similar in how they come up with their ideas? I haven’t studied many, but then agai…
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Hmm yes!! This is so interesting, thank you for sharing! I LOVE this original one and agree with Marisa, it feels more raw & real-- probably because it is! They are both beautiful, though, just slightly different like you said! I wonder if other poets are similar in how they come up with their ideas? I haven’t studied many, but then again I know that there are many different kinds of poets and opinions about what constitutes a poem. Maggie Smith (@MaggieSmithPoet) publishes "behind the scenes" hand-written annotations of some of her poems, which is cool to see! But totally unrelatable compared to how I write & edit poems ... then again, I don't consider myself a poet (at least not seriously)