Wild fire roars through the hillside
Lick of flames releasing crumbling embers skyward like a belching dragon
With cinders on the fly furthering its cause
wild fire smoulders
flames refuse to be subduded –
nature’s wildest child
stoked by whipping winds fury
on insatible rampage
Pat R
1/13/20
For
Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge
https://ronovanwrites.com/
& for dVerse Poets pub where the prompt word is, “Roar” for quadrille monday
This speaks for the raging inferno that is Australia. We send prayerful thoughts.
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I like your description of the forest fire as a belching dragon.
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I can feel the intensity of the flames in your words. Nice job.
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That dragon can be a beast at times. I hope it can be tamed soon.
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Nature’s wild child indeed, and a frightening one!
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You had me at that title! Fantastic.
And fire as “nature’s wildest child” is just perfection.
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Your quadrille is so vivid, Pat, I can feel the heat, even in my freezing study! The lines that strike me are:
‘Lick of flames releasing crumbling embers skyward like a belching dragon
A thing of beauty at the oddest time’,
which is true – humans are attracted to beauty in the midst of danger and tragedy.
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Oh the sadness of it all, the beauty of fire but so devastating.
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A very moving poem Pat, so relevant to what we are experiencing. That is an amazing photo.
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All 3 haiku are so much of the moment for us here is SE Australia right now.
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I know what you mean.
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We pray that wild rampage stops at the earliest
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Amen!!!
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I really like this one. Nature’s wildest child, indeed–the dragon roars. Perfect.
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Thanks Merril
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