Tornado!

Moore, OK Tornado Stock News Footage 05/03/1999
Moore, OK Tornado Stock News Footage 05/03/1999

Skies darken,

                    as billowy clouds 

                start to fill up the air.

           Whites give way to grays 

       then blacks with green mixed in.

The rains come in torrents, hail falls, and 

winds start to pick up seemingly out of nowhere.

The sirens sound and you know it’s for real.

             You pray the prayer of shame,

“Please not my city, not my street, not my house”.

        You hear the sound of a freight train 

                without any tracks near you.

Knowing what’s coming you enter your walk in closet and hunker down the best you can.

      You hear it come and then go abruptly.

Fortunately, it missed your house and neighborhood.

          Others, nearby, were not so lucky.

Losing all they’ve ever owned in 30 seconds.

-AAA 11/17/2024

Flavors of Danger

Originally Published 04/27/2024

Rapsae and Aquitic live on a lopsided hill.

Always in search of their latest thrill.

Rapsae like heights and Aquitic dark caves.

Taking on adventure in infinite waves.

Rapsae is petite and loves flying in planes.

Aquitic tall and lanky but lacking in brains.

Many the times for Aquitic are tense.

Due to minimal common sense.

Exploring caves with no idea where they end.

Lands him hot water with his petite girlfriend.

But Rapsae is also dangerous to the core

Climbing sheer ledges and looking for more.

The ebb and flow from high to low.

Between this two is a nail biting show.

Flooded caves and slippery ledges.

One careless move and fall off the edges.

What is the cause are they just crazy?

Too much stimuli so don’t get lazy?

Where’s the catch what is the cause?

As they often compliment each others flaws.

Anyone observing might make a wager.

Over Rapsae and Aquitic’s love of danger.

Who will fall first place bets that fit?

A long fall to earth or a bottomless pit?

Living on a hill there’s fun to be had.

Then inertia and gravity won’t be so bad.

Carts and bikes, scooters and skates.

Combinations endless with safer fates.

Knee pads, helmets, pads and gear.

Testing their hill without any fear.

Rapsae and Aquitic share a deep love.

Fitting their dangers together like a glove.

The risk of death now lower for each.

Their hill’s steepness just within reach.

Sure they’ll be some broken some along the line for each.

But less likely an untimely death off a ledge or precarious breach…

-aaa

Flavors of Danger

Rapsae and Aquitic live on a lopsided hill.

Always in search of their latest thrill.

Rapsae like heights and Aquitic dark caves.

Taking on adventure in infinite waves.

Rapsae is petite and loves flying in planes.

Aquitic tall and lanky but lacking in brains.

Many the times for Aquitic are tense.

Due to minimal common sense.

Exploring caves with no idea where they end.

Lands him hot water with his petite girlfriend.

But Rapsae is also dangerous to the core

Climbing sheer ledges and looking for more.

The ebb and flow from high to low.

Between this two is a nail biting show.

Flooded caves and slippery ledges.

One careless move and fall off the edges.

What is the cause are they just crazy?

Too much stimuli so don’t get lazy?

Where’s the catch what is the cause?

As they often compliment each others flaws.

Anyone observing might make a wager.

Over Rapsae and Aquitic’s love of danger.

Who will fall first place bets that fit?

A long fall to earth or a bottomless pit?

Living on a hill there’s fun to be had.

Then inertia and gravity won’t be so bad.

Carts and bikes, scooters and skates.

Combinations endless with safer fates.

Knee pads, helmets, pads and gear.

Testing their hill without any fear.

Rapsae and Aquitic share a deep love.

Fitting their dangers together like a glove.

The risk of death now lower for each.

Their hill’s steepness just within reach.

Sure they’ll be some broken some along the line for each.

But less likely an untimely death off a ledge or precarious breach…

-aaa