Wildfires
Inspired by Wildfires Around The World
The flames stretch up like arms
Reaching for heaven’s door
The blaze begs to be seen
Creating hell on the forest floor.
Inferno cries, once dormant
Awaken with a fiery sneer,
Becoming a rage that never stops
An ominous wrath we can all fear.
A tantrum we try to ignore
Until shouts turn into a strike
Entire villages turned to ash
Incinerating our way of life.
We fight the flames head-on
But never change our ways
If we don’t take drastic action
We might soon see our final days.
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Thanks for reading!:) This poem was inspired by all the headlines about wildfires in the news over the summer. Here's some interesting ones I just read
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-wildfire-firefighters-1.7321120
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/portugal-wildfires-environment-1.7327030
I also wanted to note that not all wildfires are bad! Wildland fires can be devastating, but fire has a natural role to play in many ecosystems. Learn more here :https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ecological-benefits-fire/
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Day 4 of Quitting
If this is how sobriety feels, maybe it’s better to go through life a little buzzed… this, along with other hits like, I want to kill myself, I wish I was dead, and I’m going to throw myself off a bridge have been the only thoughts on rotation these past few days. I promise myself that if, in a month, I still feel like this (‘this’ meaning despondent, full of rage, and simultaneously numb) I can go back to smoking. Until mid-February though? Nicotine is off the table.
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So true! Congratulations on your top story!!🎉🎉🎉
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Awesome way to bring this destructive force to the forefront. You highlited the power trapped with in the flames.
What a great way to bring awareness to wildfires by personifying them as you did in this well written and structured piece!
So, so compelling 💙
Such a profound and visual poem. Well done. Congratulations, too, on the Top Story!
Congrats on Top Story!!🥳🥳
Very good and informative poem, which leads to awareness in everybody. Thanks for the wonderful poem Meg
Profoundly descriptive. Wonderfully written!
Well written… I am terrified of fire, but as you pointed out, it has its place 🥹.
That's such a beautiful piece! Congratulations on making it to the top story!
Very important messaging here! Congrats on Top Story!
Damn, this feels pretty relevant to today’s world.
Beautifully expressed, glad this got TS or I might have missed it! Subscribed 👍
Well expressed and written beautifully!
Very interesting. Nice poetry.
Beautiful, yet devastating. Congrats on the TS.
Nice poem.
Very very talented. Liked it. So I subscribed you 🥰
This was deep and so very relevant :) I loved the author's note too. Great piece!