Best Wildfire Poems

     How quickly anger
     turns to rage, spreads
     like wildfire, devours
     whatever is
     in its way
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A grove of embers,
Destroying conifers dreams:
Searing foliage....

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Wildfire
Written: By Tom Wright
3/20/2006

The wildfire’s aftermath has revealed,
Ditches littered with assorted trash.
Wildlife panicked, ran and squealed,
Sections lay barren, as blackened ash.

Houses and barns have met their fate,
And hay, by the ton, is left to smolder.
Volunteer firemen, fighting early to late,
Standing always, shoulder to shoulder.

On men and equipment fire takes its toll,
A burn ban exists throughout...

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Tensely polarized 
Fiercely alienated 

Furiously devoid of
Space and peace

By deeds unjust
By antics blatant

Short-changed
****-noshed    

Orphaned 
Offended 

From people
To pieces 

An equation 
Unbalanced

Sinister motives
Documented

Grand strategies
Visible mirrors

To annihilate
To assimilate 

Partisan practices 
Warped policies 

Of can’t pilot 
Be passengers 
  
 
Lost trust
Lacks shine

Lost lives
Eternal

Galvanise 
Demonise 

Keep on to 
Put down  

Till one sees
The...

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ashes strike my nose
strong wind blowing from the north
smoke from distant fire....

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~ As embers cast their seedlings to the tide,
relentless rants of endless acrid winds
attenuate the brittle countryside, 
releasing spite, as hopelessness descends.
  Scorching plumes infuse a septic, swirling,
noxious residue into the feral
timberlands, unleashing toxic, whirling
clouds of grimace, rendering them sterile.
  The Devil's rage holds taut the torrid brush
that strokes the bramble sage with...

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The ground was crow-black
as the ashes took wing in the breeze,
flowing in hot breath across a 
grief stricken earth.
Charred trees, now barren of leaves,
stood leaning...drunk, like numb sticks,
ready to snap with the next lash
of wind, whipping the flames into a
brazened brawl. Oh, but no shame there
as the earth lay bare for all to see,
raped by...

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Miles and miles of dry brush, a tender box  for fire
Just a spark and the inferno is burning
Smoke clouds and ashes billow high, in Hell's exhaust
The wind is the fuel for the wildfire
Firefighters fight with all they have, in hopes of turning

All wildlife are on the run, they hurry and scurry
Trying to escape the...

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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 hills
The fathering face
Of this dead man
Hidden beneath...

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like gossip, love's epidemiology
causal, a vector rampant spreading
has another uncontrolled physiology
a loving caring directional heading

love can't grow in a Petri dish
unless you're an amoeba or other cell
if agape's agar to feed, would wish
then i'd suppose it could, as well

diseased with affection and devotion
the prognosis a fortunate telling
incurable in time, your love's emotion
opportunistic transmission compelling

we could...

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the scalding smoke
smothers
raging wildfires burn with bestial fury
toxic smoke saturates the Lower 48
smoky air sears through lethargic lungs

AIR QUALITY ALERTS!
AQI 80>100>300>400+
Codes Orange>Red>Purple>Maroon

purple dots proliferate on the map
N95 masks stage a comeback
The Big Apple suffocates in orange haze

the smothering sky
smolders...

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Wildfire season - I inhale, and choke
On fiery air, try to blink away haze
But all the sunlight is full of smoke
Drizzling embers fall in a burning dose
Like stealthy predators, they come too close
Swallowing the land in a scarlet blaze
Leaving us homeless and broke

(this is a repost from a poem of mine from 2018 - I...

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Wildfire season - I inhale, and choke
On fiery air, try to blink away haze
But all the sunlight is full of smoke
Drizzling embers fall in a burning dose
Like stealthy predators, they come too close
Swallowing the land in a scarlet blaze
Leaving us homeless and broke

To rebuild, we are left on our own
The red ink of insurance protects...

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She's smarter than me, 
I admit that with all my heart, 
And I want to someday call her Honey,
But  I am now packing my bags for I am planning to depart

Love can trick us,
It's a poison that could either cure or kill,
But we love for a purpose,
And that purpose is to feel

Together is a...

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I heard
the sirens from afar
I knew 
the back door wasn’t barred

and when
the wall of flame arrived
they found 
what they’d been looking for

they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let

they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let

they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let
they’re gonna let

it burn

we gasped
as wildfire swept the hills
we knew 
nothing was left behind 

and when
the blaze consumes...

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