Victorian Bushfies

• Sophie Marquis, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2009

The fire roars, it’s great colour glows
The greatness and beauty it shows
It’s beauty so dangerous and so painful
The burning of lives and future, so awful
Smoke frothing out of the woods
Out of buildings, houses and durable goods
Burning, demolishing, changing
Helpless, hopeless, darkness
Together we will overcome this disaster
Build a future and leave the past behind us