Poems about the Port Hills fires

Flickering Flames - by Jenna

Endless bush

Smothered in flames

Thousands evacuated

This isn't a game.

Unstoppable rain

Licking the hills

Stressed out homeowners

Taking pills.

High in the sky

The smoke lingers

Just waiting there

To burn off my fingers.

Quickly as I can

I flee the house

Empty

Apart from the tracings of a mouse.

Dancing on rooftops

Is this beast

Eating our city

For its feast.

Fire Poem - by Mya

It smoulders the lonely hills

The flaring blaze

Kindling the trees

It ignites.

The city holds its breath

Waiting

For the lingering flames

To engulf the land.

The firefighters calm the charred hills

Containing the soaring fire

Extinguishing the alight flames.


Fire - by Fritha

Light ascends

Rapidly spreading

Rushing up the hill

Until it sees a solitary tree

Standing in the open

The only one left in its area

The light waits

As the trees limbs wave

In the breeze

Then… In a second

The tree is consealed in a layer

Of light

As the bright blue sky turns grey

An aroma leaks of the tree

Choking the living

Then the tree disintegrates

Gone forever

Ruins of a Flame - by Orla

The smouldering ruins,

Of a burnt out house,

Charred by a roaring blaze,

The incessant flames, smothering all,

Igniting everything in it’s path.

Starting as a single flicker,

A danger to nothing and no one,

Soon developing into a flaring fire,

Impossible to comprehend.

Clouds of billowing smoke,

Blotting out all around,

Hiding the hills,

Charring the trees,

Continuing to liner on.

After the fire’s put out,

And the waves of firefighters gone home,

The flames sleep dormant,

Wasting away,

‘Till one day the blaze will return.

Smoke in the air - by Bella B.

A blanket of thick dark smoke levitates in the air

Land thirsty flames swallow up the charred hills

The rain, useless as can be, like spitting on a barbeque

Once green hills are smothered with dancing flames

Beads of sweat form on the exhausted firefighters skin

Days, weeks, months

How long will this beast survive?

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