Poems

Dalgah
Jagunu
Yarabih barehbanu

make music
from the land
sing in dreams

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

Featured Poet

Michelle Cahill

Michelle Cahill is a Goan-Anglo-Indian poet and author who lives in Sydney. Her first collection of short stories Letter to Pessoa (Giramondo) won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing. She received the Val Vallis Award, the KWS Hilary Mantel International Short Story Competition and has been shortlisted in several prizes including the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Prize, the Blake Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Meanjin, Southerly, The London Magazine, The Weekend Australian and The Kenyon Review.

Michelle was awarded the Red Room Poetry Fellowship in 2020.

• Sustainable Sydney
  By Jane Gibian

  The city is like an overcrowded brain
  So we use autopilot in our electric car,
  Then sit back to relax and dream.
  Solar energy powers the city lights

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• Bravo Child & Years 3 & 4 Newtown Public School
  By Bravo Child

  Warn the people that they have to be rich.
   
  Use organic petrol.
   

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• Romaine Moreton & Bourke St Public School
  By Romaine Moreton

  Waves washing define our shores,
  Communities before,
  And those to come,  
  Pulsing;

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• Elena Knox & Plunkett St Primary School
  By Elena Knox

  When I travel in a bubble
  Over made-of-metal trees
  I can hear amidst the babble
  Lots of people saying "please"

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• Anna Kerdijk Nicholson & Glebe Public School
  By Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

  The hover-dog was chasing the hover-mailman who was
  trying to give me a parcel - it flew into my hands.
  It was a self-writing pencil and a computer game.
  I said 'Mum, my automatic homework pencil's arrived!',

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• Gareth Sion Jenkins & St Mary’s Public School
  By Gareth Jenkins

  Gravity has diminished and we are hovering.
        Tree-houses in the sky drink of firework-auroras,
        needle-thin buildings arc over lakes and parks.
        Friendship floats in bubbles amongst United Aliens,

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• Brook Emery & Yr 3 Crown St Public School
  By Brook Emery

  A river winds through Pitt Street Mall,
  speckled fish swim eagerly to work, children leap,
  pick marshmallows from the trees; everyone stops
  to say hello; cars dance, bikes ring silent bells

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• Ed Wright & Ultimo Public School
  By Ed Wright

  The future is a flying box -      
  Where money's made of sand - and rocks -      
  Talking buildings and more trees      
  Will help the city's busy bees      

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