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I.A dove into a mirror;
A crow into a tree.
II.
There is a word missing.
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i have recently been diagnosed bipolar and now i realize i am not the only one either.
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More than anything, that is what I wanted. You're not alone.
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thanks my fam thinks i need to be put back on meds to help the depression and bipolar swings away. i hate how they think meds are going to change me!!!!! i feels like a test subject!!! Y CANT THEY JUST ACCEPT ME FOR WHO I AM!!!!!!
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Medication and treatment for bipolar is a really hard subject to talk to families about, for a bunch of different reasons. I really do think that you should seek support for the highs and lows that bipolar causes, because they certainly can be dangerous and sometimes destructive. But know that support comes in many different forms- there is therapy, peer-to-peer groups, medication, and that's just the beginning of the resources available to people diagnosed with bipolar. Work with your family and friends to find the best support for you- you as a person and an individual.
I know it's hard, and ultimately the treatment is about you. Remember that, while your family isn't experiencing this the way you are, it affects them too. If they love and support you, they want you to be on medication to help you, not to change you.
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thanks my mom is putting me in this Big Brother Big Sister group thing and meds, group therapy, counselors, ect. has never worked. what set them off in alert recently was i threatened my little sis with a kitchen knife
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Finding the right balance of medication, therapy, and other resources can be very tricky. Some medications don't work the same way for some people as they do for others, so it can really feel like a trial and error process that takes forever. It's tiring, I know, but keep working, keep trying to find the balance you need.
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seeing as i am bipolar and going through a low right now
i love you for writing this
for making me feel i'm not alone
all the love i can give you
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You're not alone. 
All the love right back. You are a survivor.
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your wonderful piece has been featured here! [link]
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I'm not usually a fan overly obscure or short poetry but this does have a certain charm to it..
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i'm afraid i don't get it. congrats on all your success though!
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PERFECT.
I love this.
I also love the fact that an experimental piece of poetry got a DD, congratulations
AA<3.
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You're welcome! Keep up the good work!
AA<3.
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this took me longer to understand than i am proud of. it's very beautiful. very nice.
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It's a poem to be mulled over, so taking a while on it is my intention 
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Oh and did anybody else notice that what you expect to be a noun - dove .. can actually be the verb and what you maybe be looking for for the part of the poem might indeed be a noun .. oh and also .. it's suggestive of .. a dove dove into a mirror .. answering the first part .. as dove is both noun and verb. HMMM the mind wonders... lol
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That is certainly a possibility
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I showed this to my friend and he goes "Wtf..don't get it..."
Then i proceed to say "OMG u r sucha dumb cunt (i mean that in the nicest way) .. Do u even know what Bipolar is ? But yh anyway ... This is just my interpretation. first part sets the scene, second part brings in the dynamics. U don't realise a word is missing i...n the first part until u read the second. A hole appears in the first but you can't quiet fill it cos u have too much freedom in what words u could substitute. In fact at some point you think, there isn't even a word missing. But in my mind I kept substituting different words and not quite sticking with them. there is a struggle for you to fill in the hole and sometimes u even think it's not there.Which I think alludes a great deal to the instability of bipolar. Not that bipolar has anything to do with filling a hole but rather changing involuntarily between states some of excitement and some of depression !! (You might even go as far to say u experience a tinge of these two-POLES when at first u r slightly frustrated by your inability to quite understand this; to fill in the hole. And then when you finally do and you see how the poem is suggestive of Bipolar you slightly get xcited!) OMG I SHOULDA DONE LITERATURE !"
AM I RIGHT ?!
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That is a very good interpretation, I quite like it.
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I'm gonna take a stab - I think the word missing is the verb. A crow "what" into a tree? Glides? Crashes? This leaves it up to the readers' imagination as to what happened to the crow and the dove, resulting in an infinite number of possibilities, kind of like bipolar disorder. The reader doesn't know what's going to happen to the crow or the bird, and it's just as unpredictable as bipolar disorder.
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I first intended the missing word to be the verb- and the bird/mirror is a reference to e e cummings "in a middle of a room"- that poem has my intended missing word.
However, I also intended the reader to think, fill the spaces with their own mind, mull it over. The poem is not concrete. So there is an infinite number of possibilities, all connected to the concrete and very opposite symbols of the dove and the crow. Further, the last line, while it ties back into the first stanza, can be taken on its own.
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The only way I can even remotely understand it is if I read the roman numeral one as 'I' and replaced the 'A' with it like I did automatically... I also didn't think you meant the animals dove or crow but still... The word missing might be 'I'? If that makes any sense...?
I have to appreciate the art in this but I absolutely hate hate hate poetry. I can only think visually which is probably why I can only understand the face value. =__=
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I read it the same way the first time.
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That's actually a view I had not thought of before! Dove and crow can both be used as verbs, not just noun, so "I" being the missing word is a fantastic way of viewing it.
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This is beautiful. I know someone who struggles quietly with depression, and I love the silence of your words.
And I think the last line is my favorite for the week. Its going on my wall.
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Thank you so much for your kind words and your support. I really want this poem to let people know that they're not alone in their struggles.
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Are you high?... what ever your on, I want it!! I mean I have bi-polar.. but I don't understand this...
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Wow.
Just because you don't understand something doesn't automatically make the person who wrote it high
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and what is the E.E. Cummings reference? i wish you had explained that too.
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the e e cummings reference is to the poem "in a middle of a room"- the final line of that poem explains my intended missing word (although I am quite a fan of some of the other suggestions I've seen in the comments so far XD)
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i don't understand what the words in the poem mean. PLEASE explain them.
in the daily deviation box, it says, "Poetry has always been about saying more with less."
...and that is the reason i dislike most poetry. it's often impossible to determine the meaning, especially with short poems. many poems are super vague. it's better when the author explains, and gives me direction.
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Poetry, in many styles, is very much subjective. It borders a line between painting a picture in the reader's mind, and being the catalyst for the reader painting a picture themselves.
I personally like to refrain from explaining what the words mean to me because I don't always want to confine my readers to my view. Words are meaningless until YOU, as the recipient, assign them a meaning.
This is also exactly why poetry isn't for everyone. Some people don't think like that. Which is totally cool in its own right.
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CONFUSED... MIND... IMPLODING.
Augh this will bother me forever.
IT'S LIKE A MYSTERY WRAPPED IN A... MYSTERY.
Anyway, I like the poem. It's simple, seems to have a lot of depth, and makes you think. Even if your thinking leads absolutely nowhere, like mine does. XD
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For an idea as to what the missing word is- look up e. e. cummings "in a middle of a room", and read the final line.
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Wow. It took me a minute to have a "click" moment. This is really is great.
It shows the bipolar for me. Especially with a "dove" and a "crow" as visual opposites and "theres a word missing" with the whole suddenly jumping moods of people that are bipolar..
Really great piece.
Please excuse any spelling errors I may or may not have made.
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can't write it without having it* wow my DA is being glichy
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I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense to me at all. I have bipolar, on medication for it. This doesn't even cover one tiny bit of what mania and depression are. I'm not saying you can write it without having it. I'm saying to me these are pointless words that have nothing what so ever to do with mania and depression. For one
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