Tag: bushfire
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Sunset 10/09/2013
An orange sunSets over the ocean While fires rage Far away The sun setting over the ocean this evening. It was very hot today and awful fires have sprung up around western Sydney and in parts of NSW, although thankfully nowhere near us at present. Hope I’m wrong but can’t help but think we’re going…
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Across the Paddock
Dry land Sweltering heat, The perfect fuel For a terrible summer I took this photo just before Christmas, looking out across a small paddock while visiting my uncle’s family with my parents. They live in a small rural community north of Sydney and many of the surrounding towns and suburbs were surrounded by bushfires in the…
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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 trees:Nature is unleashed The beauty of fire:An unstoppable furyDancing on the wind Eucalypt forest:Ancient trees of memoryScorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the sky:Embers falling like raindropsIn the darkest light Twenty years of lifeReduced to rubble and ash:We have each other A fallen tree…