the barefoot bard Poet Rhyme

The Night Sky Lights Up

It's early autumn no rain for several months
long grass in the paddocks  becomes tinder dry
Fires are burning closely to produce a pall of heavy smoke
which is hanging thickly, low down in the sky

Today a raging eighty kilometre per hour dry wind
is blowing from the north
The fires are moving closer 
makes one think what life is really worth

Temperature is close to forty celsius degrees
 low humidity hovers at around almost six per cent
The smell of acrid smoke 
alerts the olfactory scent

Nightfall has arrived now there's an eerie glow
encircling all of us will  it come to hound ?
The wind adds to the drama 
as it makes a roaring sound

Mother decides it's time to make a move, seek safety
abandon the old farm family home
We pile into the car. on a tractor track up a long steep hill to a paddock recently been ploughed
we move into the middle of this chosen safety zone

The fire burns in forest litter  lying down below 
and also high up in each and every leaf
We watch in awe these flames that spread so rapidly
at a speed almost way beyond belief

The glow from forest flames
almost reaches daytime bright
The embers in oily eucalypt foliage 
with stored energy rapidly ignite

Wind alone is not the only spreading catalyst
Hawks gather burning sticks to drop ahead of the main fire
Stirs up hordes of insects
 as the food which they desire

There is often blame put upon the greenies
for the ignition of these wildfires
Big  fires in Victoria in nineteen thirty nine
well before the greenies as scapegoats did arise

Many of these fires deliberately lit, even firemen
charged with arson, being caught in this wilful act
Fires floods hurricanes tsunamis volcanoes
all a part of nature which has a huge impact

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