Forest Fire #1
a shy spark smoldering meekly
in midst of the nest of a dead bonfire
left over like a pushover from a rumour
of picnic under the attention of
stalwarts of dried leaves and wrinkled bark
its greedy licks into the shrivelled twigs
gathered previously by campers
roars into a cold sober grey evening
of winter , a sputtering crackling
firecrackers set into the sky of
crimson canopy of autumn leaves
that some skeleton of a dried vine held from falling into the roots
smoke billows up like steam as if from
an unattended tea in the kitchen
sooty clouds tinges the evening hue
into a spree of setting the forest critters
into a bout of coughs and a race for
the hidden ponds and streams in the
forested vale , only to find a cracked
bed of pond panting out a gush of steam
a brown eyed , spotted cow of the nearby village has rushed into its
thatched home with its tail on fire
feeding the muddy huts into the ever
greedy fire , children dead in sleep
from the stale burnt air , funeral
cries leaping into epidemic stretches
no bell ringing red faced fire brigades
around , village by village a song of
ash and char
A.N. : This the first of my pieces where the theme has been completely suggested by none other than our lovely girl Vani2609 . Go and pay her a visit .
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Reverie
PoetryA collection of poems. It had reached #1 in #stair out of 55 stories and had been maintaining it since then till 09/09/19.
