Poems
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St Kilda
By Petra White1
Sleepless seagulls fleer under floodlights,
they are caught like souls in light as in a net,
thoroughly winging their ways -
Sea Things (26 poems)
By Luke BeesleyNOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW FISH SLEEP
The word described
Like broken bread the ship fell away
squid, kelp, carbon -
Untitled
By Ciaran SomervilleThe drunken clash of waves slap the rocks as
the storm grows stronger
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On the whales’ road
By Graeme Miles1
They found a Neanderthal skull in the North Sea,
shallow sea that was land. Just a bone left,
shielded once in its skim of skin like the soft lives -
Souvenir
By Bonny CassidyThis coast drifts.
Smooth its inches
and shifts; it sails, sometimes
pinched or ripped – -
If you force the sea through a sieve
By Bonny Cassidyfor Year 8, Frankston High School
If you force the sea
through a sieve
stand back. Oceans will run clear and thin. -
Keeping Mum
By Sandra ThibodeauxThen, one night, his mother doesn't come home from the beach.
He is eleven. She's promised to make him tacos.
He arranges the shells on a tray. The sky bruises lilac,
steel grey, and then black.