Bushfire Poems - Poems about Bushfire

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 me to the core the sky is red so many animals...

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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 for nothing at all, Fly off to a place far...

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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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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 to the heavens; fear on four legs run or die, sparkling...

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BUSHFIRE ...

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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 the heat of raging flame gumnut shells have broken. The fire did...

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