Poems

Learning Resources

Dalgah
Jagunu
Yarabih barehbanu

make music
from the land
sing in dreams

~ Ellen van Neerven from ‘Gibam Garandalehn (Full Moon)’, Poetry In First Languages

• Would, Could, Should
  By Megan Wilding

  my Sister would always tell me
  that she loved my
  Curly Hair
  and

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• There’s So Much I Could Write Poetry About
  By Yassmin Abdel-Magied

  I could         wax     lyrical 
  about
  a city that    springs     back         to     life
  after  a          winter     of         confinement

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• sunlight and wind are free
  By Ella O'Keefe, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki

  sunlight and wind are free
  a kind of ‘glue’
  your loudspeaker simultaneously broadcasts
  molten iron in precise quantities

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• For Nokutela Dube, who travelled
  By Sisonke Msimang

  I was listening to a nice white lady celebrating the Australian elections
  and she said how proud Australian women should be that they got the vote in 1902.
  I corrected her and said
  White women

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• Us Mob
  By Steven Oliver

  Sad mob, down mob, hurt mob, sorry mob
  Tired mob, drained mob, used mob, weary mob,
  Taken mob, forced mob, lost mob, stolen mob
  Teased mob, tormented mob, bullied mob, mocked mob

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• Hard Pressed
  By Grace Tame

  The same eyes
  that fix on us 
  were closed before
   

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• An evening melody
  By Tenzin Choegyal

  This is an evening song for you.
  I know it’s difficult to be simple. 
  This is an evening song for you - 
  Like the moon in the water, 

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