As fires rage across the state our air is full of ash and smoke. Schools closed with some areas already evacuated. Tension mounts as we are warned to be alert as there may not be a door knock.
Temperature is in the late thirties although we’ve had a few days in the forties already. And this is only spring!
A state of emergency has been declared in order to access to more resources. The military involved as fire fighters are exhausted. Water choppers buzz. With a long-term drought everything is dry and water supplies close to exhausted.
Armageddon is upon us now hence no possible doubt of the climate change impact! Oh yes our government has just criminalised ‘climate change’ protests! Journalists are raided, whistle-blowers goaled. The delusion of democracy crumbles.
If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant as autocratic rule prevails.
dVerse, Victoria, 144 word prose using “If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant”, from Kenyon’s poem, “Taking Down the Tree.”
Today our air is clean but we only need a change of wind!
wrote this about 16 hours ago. … the day has been a scorcher, they fought 300 fires today, 40 are still burning, 20 are out of control, most are near the cities … nothing near me but a cool change has come and that will help!
aroused 
A wonder poem but a sad truth.
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Wow, powerful writing!
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“Oh yes our government has just criminalised ‘climate change’ protests! Journalists are raided, whistle-blowers goaled.” – sorry to hear that. I hope the situation improves asap
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not too many are making a fuss so guess that’s means it will only increase!
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With a million hectare land already consumed and 300 new fires across NSW, the government has time for anything else is surprising!
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they don’t have any care or responsibility about any of that … their opportunistic photo shoots in the burnt areas are being greeted with heckling. It’s just a grandstand, they are only interested in filling their pockets …
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If it’s of any assurance, I think what you’re seeing will not be much different in another country with similar circumstances
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Remind me again of what part of the world and district you live in. So I can look it up on the internet. Thanks Kate.
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You are in Australia, I’m guessing. The fires there are so horrible as they have here in the West USA, but as you say, I can’t believe they have made any kind of protest criminal, that is conducted peacefully. So sorry you are going through all of that. Good use of the line.
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Interesting that the criminalizing of protest is directed not to disturb traffic which is the cause of the climate change… sounds like a backward thinking….
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I’m praying for rain to cause the fires to end. Or any end to lack of safety that a source chooses..
💕💡🎉
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Really like your poem. Really dislike your circumstances. Getting out/away is not an option?
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And the former deputy PM, the deputy PM, the PM, all playing the fiddle. Real darkness in fire.
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they are monsters pretending to be people!
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GREAT write from that line, SweetKate! Powerful, evocative, important write!
I think the whole world is in a great darkness and a reason for it is the darkness in the governments/leadership…in their minds, hearts, mouths, hands, etc….from the top on down. 😦
Prayers for the safety of people, rain, cooler weather, end of the fires, and a change in the leadership, if that is possible in the near future.
(((HUGS)))
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we most certainly need it but like most countries all parties seem to be bogged down in self-renumeration!
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Oh, my Lord, I hope you are safe. Are you wearing mask as not to breath in the toxins from all the fire and debris in its path?
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I am safe thanks 🙂
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It’s sad to hear news every alternative month…future doesn’t seem good at all
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no we can’t hear mother nature’s dire warnings 😦
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I just hope all of us will learn from these disasters..
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