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Aarti's avatar

Rather than reverse, the second one felt like it was inside out? Like how you undo your clothes after the wash? I don’t know if that makes sense but everything I read of yours just confirms you’re definitely a sorcerer of words and form! 🫶🏽

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Aww that’s a much better description

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quiet reminders's avatar

I like the concept. Very creative. The writing...beautiful.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Aww thank you☺️

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Elly Marlow's avatar

My favorite thing is reading your work at its most raw. This is it. 🖤

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Elly🖤🖤

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Hema's avatar

Cassie this felt like a quiet storm,soft but it hits deep.

The way it loops back? Damn

It’s like feeling everything twice first as love, then as memory this poem is beautiful and brutal at the same time

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thank you Hema! Im glad you took the time to read it and digest it

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hannah's avatar

this is such a beautiful format omg

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Awww thank you so much Hannah🖤

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Sae Abiola's avatar

This reads like heartbreak folding into itself. Stunning.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Sae!

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A. G. Giberson | Poet's avatar

Gorgeous! This inspires me to play with form. Not sure I will manage this level of epic, though.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Autumn!

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_Divinxa.aa_'s avatar

-Got me sobbing. This is just- BEAUTIFUL

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

😭😭 don’t sobbb

Thank you🥺

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Thomas Cargen's avatar

Beautiful. Full of awe.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thank you, Thomas!!

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gail 🫧's avatar

this was so good. i love palindromic words but this was so thought provoking and so interesting to read. the reverse definitely.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks for reading Gail! It was certainly challenging to write this one

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vamana's avatar

Damn! I just listened to a poet which swirlwind my mind in all directions like the movie memento, the pain is surreal at the same time. Your spell of "love's surrender" cuts me like a dozen pairs of keen knives guiding through my ribs. One thing is sure for me, I must surrender myself to your eloquent art as you're a master of it and love for your writing which is magnificent, remarkable and mesmerizing

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thank you so much for those words, Vamana! I appreciate you reading my work

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Anna | Tender & True 🧷's avatar

This was soul-deep and stirring.

The surrender you speak of feels so familiar — that ache of loving fully while letting go of control. I felt it with every line.

From one writer with a palindrome name (Anna) to another beautiful soul: thank you for this offering.

It landed right where it needed to Cass, as always 🤍

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Omgg thank you so much for reading, Anna. Never expected this piece to resonate with the you🖤❤️

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Velvet's avatar

this is absolutely incredible!!

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Velvet🫶🫶

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avani's avatar

both are hauntingly gorgeous. the reverse hit me like a truck

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thanks Avani! I appreciate you taking the time to reflect upon it

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Pages After Dark's avatar

It takes skill to write an experimental poem like this and you did it well!

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thank you! I have experimented a lot! Will post more

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Stephanie M. Vargo's avatar

Wow! That was brilliant. The format is astonishing.

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Cassian Delmare's avatar

Thank you Stephanie!

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