The poem, and Jus de Pomme de Terre

[astree]

brambler mentions the Pomme de Terre parks on this page

mysteriouswritings.proboards.com/thread/457/list-new-orleans-clues?page=2

From a different approach, has anyone worked with the idea that we are to ignore everything in the book, except the poem, by reading the chapter heading something like

Just the Poem of the Tree ?

[brambler]

Apr 18, 2017 6:02:36 GMT -5 astree said:

brambler mentions the Pomme de Terre parks on this page

mysteriouswritings.proboards.com/thread/457/list-new-orleans-clues?page=2

From a different approach, has anyone worked with the idea that we are to ignore everything in the book, except the poem, by reading the chapter heading something like

Just the Poem of the Tree ?

I haven't tried that yet. Honestly, I haven't really dug into the poem that much either besides meaning gotten from just reading it a time or two, which seems so broad of a thing to look for. A tree eating a boulder. 

But, yeah if I read it with maybe a cajun accent - Jus de poem de tree? Interesting. 

[thetictocman]

Interesting thought.

Another thing I noticed about the tree poem is when Nels tells Lane “I thought that poem about the rock-eating tree sounded an awful lot like you.”
If you look at Lane's poem at the beginning of chapter 7, the first two lines of the poem are the same as the last two lines, as is the case with the tree poem.

Don't know if there is any significance to this. Maybe there is something we do at the beginning that we repeat at the end? 

[astree]

Here's another example (a possibility to consider):

"just north of this old town"

north can indicate UP, and shifting the letters of "old town" up by one gives

old town
pme UPxo   (so, the north generates a string containing UP)


X UP POEM

This is reminiscent of the "Spiritual Codes" where spiritual is an anagram of "its up trail"

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[astree]

why was it funny, perfectly funny, the second time they read the poem?

Hint: they had moved off the location where they did the first read.

Hint 2

[razorback]

I thought that too.  I think maybe the poem is referring to two old towns.  The first reading, the treasure is north of the old town they are at, and then when they get to the final parking lot, they end up west of another old town.