Disclaimer! (These photos are the copyright of others’ but unknown to me. Some are from national newspapers and others from private individuals. I will gladly allocate credit if claimed.)
With thanks to Mark’s Gallery for these pictures he posted, depicting bush fires currently rampant in Australia. He kindly obliged with photos of Fire after I had joked that I was going to write poems working my way through all the elements, having done some on Air and Water. These pictures, although of actual events, elicited in me an entirely different sort of response. My apologies if some of them are depressing! But some of them are loving and sensual. So a good balance I would say, eh?
Drift now
In hazy cloud of ash.
It’s ended
And all of life is past.
Buildings
Commemorate for all,
Existence once,
Before all mankind’s fall.
Sleep now,
All music
Long since
Gone.
Silence.
No singer
Left
For song.
Harken
To the silence.
Now
It speaks.
History
Repeated,
All hope
Leaks.
Hush now,
Heaven
Weeps
For wrong,
Carrying
All souls
Where
We belong.
Truth
Plundered,
Distorted,
All hope burned.
Mankind
Broken,
Nothing ever
Learned.
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