Oklahoma: a poem.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:24 am

When God made Oklahoma,
He made it broad and wide,
With Texas on the bottom,
And Texas on the side,

With Alabaster Caverns
And Red Rock Canyon blest
With rolling hills and valleys
And sunshine east to west!

He filled the land with bounty,
Pecans, wild grapes, and poke,
And wicked wild tornadoes
To scare off fickle folk!

©MMVI by Walden

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:05 am

Not JUST a poem, Walden, but an annotated Hyperpoem!

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:06 am

Excellent!

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:46 am

Never heard of pokeberries before. Interesting.

djm

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:20 am

djm wrote:Never heard of pokeberries before. Interesting.

djm

Don't eat them... they make you sick... poke salad will too, if you don't cook it right.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:36 am

I'm glad to know what tornadoes are for.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Mon May 15, 2006 10:00 am

That is the best poem I've read on here in weeks.

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:08 pm

So what about the wind blowing the waving wheat into the elephant's eyes and all that stuff? Aren't you supposed to sing and dance around in a Shirley Jones outfit when performing these things?

djm

BrassBlower · Post by **BrassBlower** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:00 pm

Wikipedia wrote:Tornadoes can come in many shapes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth.

Maybe so, but the typical tornado is a small one. The biggest, most destructive ones are often hidden behind a wall cloud, or are the same width from top to bottom (or even wider at the bottom), or may even have no condensation funnel at all. One of the things that makes them so dangerous is that they often "don't look like a tornado".

-Brass (trained storm spotter)

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:53 am

Walden wrote:When God made Oklahoma,
He made it broad and wide,
With Texas on the bottom,
And Texas on the side,

With Alabaster Caverns
And Red Rock Canyon blest
With rolling hills and valleys
And sunshine east to west!

He filled the land with bounty,
Pecans, wild grapes, and poke,
And wicked wild tornadoes
To scare off fickle folk!

©MMVI by Walden

Do you say "PEE-can", PEE-con, p'CON or a different varient?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:54 am

Flyingcursor wrote: Do you say "PEE-can", PEE-con, p'CON or a different varient?

It's p'cahn. The old spelling was pacan.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed May 17, 2006 9:56 am

Speaking of Tornadoes..

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0517/buncrana.html

Unheard of I tell ye.

The End is nigh.

Slan,
D.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:11 am

Walden wrote:
Flyingcursor wrote: Do you say "PEE-can", PEE-con, p'CON or a different varient?
It's p'cahn. The old spelling was pacan.

It has to be p'cahn, or the meter stumbles. But p'cahn is how all right-thinking folks say it, anyway.

Excellent poem, Walden. Especially the tornado part.

Now, what happened to the Katy avatar. I know I didn't hallucinate it. The Katy ran smack through Oklahoma.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:16 am

Everyone knows that a "pee-can" is what you take with you on very long drives for just in case.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:28 am

p'cahn

pee-can

That top picture makes me want pie.

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