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gourdmad
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0 posted 2004-04-02 12:53 PM


              l        
       r            d  
   o                    r
w          ME          e
    es              v
        v        o
              l


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eminor_angel
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1 posted 2004-04-04 12:25 PM


I don't get this, though I can see the word "love". I really consider this to be a word puzzle, not a poem, though perhaps it may be borderline. Agree or disagree?
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2 posted 2004-04-04 12:37 PM


it means "world revolves around me"
right?

gourdmad
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3 posted 2004-04-04 11:42 AM


Naturally an angel would see only the love :-)

It is supposed to be a circle, and writing it by hand I can easily do it but haven't been able to master the computer to the point of it getting beyond a parallellogram.

By reading in different directions you get the different lines, but not bound by linear constrictions, can see different lines at different times. Maya is sanskrit for illusion. Dreams are illusion. French for dream is reve. So within the larger circle are the two smaller circles spelling out reve, reves, the Me surround by dreams.

Read North to south to east and it says I Me love, which would be good or bad depending on your conception of the real Me.  Revolve is a wonderful word as it includes also evolve.

Anyway, I see a lot of other stuff in it but these are some reasons why I think it is a poem, not necessarily a good one.

the puzzling out of the meaning, the search for the true self

gourdmad
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4 posted 2004-04-04 11:46 AM


think of worl as whorl with an aspirated H.

Start in the north  to the east to the west:

I dreem the world revolves around me

west to east

Me inside we

Me viewed from another angle (upside down) is we

(I will stop tripping out now, promise :-)

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5 posted 2004-04-13 07:46 PM


loved your explanation.

i'm all for experimenting, you might be on to something.

Till then, this is rather fun....

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