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Poetry: Okay Oklahoma

By Will Dodds

Are you ready? How I wish I knew. You’re away, Oklahoma, half the world’s oasis.

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Bonfire with a sunset in the distance Photo by Ela Yanik

 

Are you ready? How I wish I knew.

You’re away, Oklahoma, half the world’s oasis.

It can’t be any closer    ----                                                paradoxical distance to proximity.

 

Two concepts dancing.

 

But never truly                                

 

                                              see,

 

never truly                                      meet.

 

There is a lot of space.

 

When can we make a start?

 

It’s all ‘God Bless America’, until I’m yours, you’re mine;

The writing recited in Bristol town from Newcastle upon-Tyne,

That long,

 With the stars,

 To all become realigned;

In the heat of surrounding missiles,

To truly become allies.

 

In this modern world, are you happy?

What do you desire?

Do you flow inside like a river?

Or do you burn inside like a fire?

 

 We’re so young, no time to wallow, we can throw it on the pyre.

 

The time is now:

 

It’ll always be

 The shifting, coiling wires,

 Of my notebook back in Britain,

Which wrap around the notepad and hold together these pages,

 

Fragments of my soul whether gone or breathing.

 

Maybe I can show her.

 

Someone in Oklahoma.

You say ‘okay’ from Oklahoma

Until we meet again –

 We walk alone.

Loners                                        with that                                       Oklahoma

Published: 11 Dec 2025 00:15 Last updated: 11 Dec 2025 00:20 63 views
 
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