Bonfires Poem by Steve Wheeler

Moses once stood near a burning bush
Nero fiddled while Rome burned out
The twin towers collapsed in a mighty rush
'Cos there's plenty of arson about

People like burning things just for fun
The Brits razed the White House to the ground
Books burned in Fahrenheit 451
Yeah, there's plenty of arson around

Wild fires and conflagrations
Are hard to extinguish we've found
Notre Dame's towers are belching smoke
There's a truckload of arson around

It's written in Samuel Pepys' diary
That the Great Fire took days to burn out
He said it was started by accident
But there's still too much arson about

Through the Armada, Drake's fireships tore
The Dresden firestorm was a rout
These fires were deliberate acts of war
And there's far too much arson about

Light the blue touch paper and retire,
Fireworks make us gasp and shout
Just don't be seduced by the bonfire
'Cos there's far too much arson about

© Steve Wheeler 2020