Sly holocaust in modern times
Greece beset by palpitations
Evacuations! Action Stations!
Through bone-dry forest, fires rage
Homes are scorched, cars set ablaze
Terrifying, death defying
Normal lifestyles soon untying.
On blackened hillsides mass confusion
Flames and smoke, asphyxiation
Tourists, horrified, discover
This Greek scene is like no other …
Devastation all around
Firemen try to hold their ground
Did Sophocles and Euripides
Write tragedies as wild as these?
(c) Poet in the woods 2018
As of 25/7/18 - over 70 deaths
That is so powerful, Sarah. I can't imagine what those poor people went through as the flames advanced...
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