Best Bushfire Poems

Thunder rolls in the distance, lightning jags across the sky,
all around the heavens are angry … a fiery strike becomes the eye.
 
With little rain, and tinder forest, flame reaches out for what is near,
rising through gum and wattle, as undergrowths all disappear,
hell rises up...

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At peace in the world, alone with her joey, 
A soft breeze ruffles her hair,
Amongst the green of life all around, 
In the freshest of forest filled air,

Just sitting and gazing, peering at love, 
In tune with the natural ballet,
She sees the birds fly off...

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The wind is now a soughing sigh, 
Smoke is slowly drifting.
Devastation meets the eye. 
Home burned down,
Chimney standing.

Possums gone, fate unknown, 
Snakes are dead, birds have flown. 
Bush destroyed, and trees, devoid 
of green leaves, bare.
While all around, the empty sound 
of nothing living there.

Within...

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BUSHFIRE
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Never did a fire so fierce
Blow across the land
That same land
His heart did grow
Nourished by his sweat and toil
No more
The morning mist
Will hear his weathered voice 
Call his horse
Com'orn
His mark
Has been scorched from its soil
And how that land
Greens, grays
And blacked haze
With gusts of wind
And rumpled...

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in the haze i fix my gaze
to the burning tree in front of me
what a sight in the fading light 
burning so bright
the orange glow burning so slow
now it is night the forest is alight
the earlier sight now filled with fright
the very loud roar scares...

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