My good friends lost their house in the bush fires this year in King Lake
I'm putting together a scrap booking album of photos i've managed to collect of people, as they lost all their photos
I've never done scrap booking before, so hoping this all goes well, but I would really love to write something special at the front, maybe a poem or something but I seriouslly CANNOT write poetry to save my life.
I would love help with writing a little piece that kinda said something along the lines of what happened, eg On Sat 7th FEb 2009 bushfires blah blah blah, then go on to say that the fires took away everything, but nothing can take away friendship and memories etc
If anyone can help me with this i would be so greatful
Maybe you could google 'bushfire poems' or something of the sort.
I live near Whittlesea, not far from kinglake and it was one of the scariest times, we were heading to gippsland on that horrible day and were caught near the fires there too.
I wish your friends all the best and it's such a wonderful thing your doing.
if you want to elaborate on what you want - do you want something poetic in what is written (ie, deep and meaningful) or are you looking for something that rhymes (very different! easier, but not always as meaningful) - i'm happy to have a go at it
feel free to PM me details if you want to keep it off the boards - i've posted some of my poems in this section if you want to have a look (and was also under threat from fires the weekend before black saturday so have a bit of an inkling of how scary it was - thankfully nothing happened to us apart from part of our yard burning - but we were evac'd and didn't know til the next day if we still had a home. a lot of friends lost their homes)
Hi there
thanks for the replies, i've just sat down tonight and started scarpbooking some pages, which actaully have come out really good for someone who has no idea what i'm doing!
Ava's mum, thats a great idea, will have to google it and see what i can find
Leesa, thanks for the encourgement!
Briggy's girl, your help would be appreciated SO much
Will PM you some more details tomorrow, but i'm not too fussed if its rhyming or just a beautiful written piece, i just want something to show that they're never far from our thoughts, even months afterwards, and that even if this is only something so tiny for them, i just want to be able to help them out....kinda thing.... haha
I just seriouslly can't string something together to get that point across in a well written way, i'm useless at words!
Oh, and basically the idea of the poem, blurb, whatever it is, is to put on the very first page, to kinda show why i did it for them, what happened that lead to all this, eg the fire that caused them to lose everything, and so that when they look back at it years to come, while its always going to be a big part of their lives, the expereience they went through, that out of it the positive memories of friendship and love is what they can dwell on.
I need "creative" help
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