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Published: 2011-10-27 10:10:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 122; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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Description What once was full
Of green trees and life,
Has been savagly replaced
By a fiery strife,

The ghost gums of the bush
Have been burnt to live no more,
Telling the horrific tale
Of what had happened before,

The trees although dead
Still reach to the sky,
With their burnt and damaged limbs
It still seems they try,

To see the damage caused
It must have been hard,
But maybe life will some day return
To this silver graveyard.
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Comments: 10

blue-eyed-bee [2011-10-29 03:18:22 +0000 UTC]

its nice i particularly like the last line.

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killerqueen40 [2011-10-27 10:17:34 +0000 UTC]

When did you write this? It sounds like something about the Victorian Bushfires way back. It's very good in any case...

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Flutter1994 In reply to killerqueen40 [2011-10-27 10:19:26 +0000 UTC]

When we went on grade 10 camp.
We passed an area with ghost gums that had been through a fire.
I wrote it when I got home with the image still in my head ^^

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killerqueen40 In reply to Flutter1994 [2011-10-27 10:26:20 +0000 UTC]

Cool. I just remember going to Dart Mouth after the fires about a decade ago, and this poem just reminded me of what the trees were like... although they were actually charcoal-black...

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Flutter1994 In reply to killerqueen40 [2011-10-27 10:42:25 +0000 UTC]

Bush fires really make a place bare and eerie.

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killerqueen40 In reply to Flutter1994 [2011-10-27 10:50:12 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they do. They end up being so desolate... It's nice when they start getting life back in them again.

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Flutter1994 In reply to killerqueen40 [2011-10-27 10:53:45 +0000 UTC]

It looks more beautiful to have new life in an area that has had life ripped from it than new life in an area already bursting with life.

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killerqueen40 In reply to Flutter1994 [2011-10-27 12:17:22 +0000 UTC]

Yeah. It's like confirmation that good can eventually come from bad.

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Flutter1994 In reply to killerqueen40 [2011-10-27 12:22:01 +0000 UTC]

:'D
So true, so very true.

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killerqueen40 In reply to Flutter1994 [2011-10-27 12:27:08 +0000 UTC]

And that's why poetry works so well for it! Like your poem~

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