Tag: Black Saturday
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One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so…
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Hell on Earth
Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burningWind howling among the treesNature is unleashed The beauty of fireAn unstoppable furyDancing on the wind Eucalypt forestAncient trees of memoryScorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the skyEmbers falling like raindropsIn the darkest light Twenty years of lifeReduced to rubble and ashWe have each other A fallen tree…