Student poems

• Leaves
  By Charles (Year 5, Holy Spirit School)

  Fall through the air with no care
                                                     dancing and prancing 
                                                       all the way there.
                                                 Crunch Munch Bunch.

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• For A Beautiful Earth
  By Natasha (Year 7, Kardinia International College)

  The Earth is beautiful
  The World is amazing
  The Earth’s wonders are wonderful
  Cheerful birds are singing

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• The Bushwalk
  By Catie (Year 5, Arden Anglican School)

  Cockatoos scatter to chirp and sing,
  The rustling trees start whispering.
  Towards a twisting path with rocks unsteady,
  You may slip and slide so make sure you’re ready!

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• Little Willie Wag Tail
  By Tea (Year 6, Illawarra Christian School)

  Your sweet songs calm me as I walk through the greens
  Listening so swiftly amongst the trees
  Water falls down from the sky
  Crashing like waves, but soft and sly

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• Dolphins
  By Seamus (Year 4, Brunswick South Primary School)

  Dolphins need the ocean like bees need pollen.           
  Dolfens dive deeply in the dark blue ocean.             
  When I go to the beach, I sit on                   
  the soft sand, waiting for the dolphins to leap.           

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• Save Our World
  By Harry (Year 6, Ross Park Primary School)

  Everyone is babbling and I can’t block them out
  I'm looking out the window
  Trees swaying, the wind gusting and the massive mountains in a slumber
  I wish I could be at peace with nature

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• My Octopus
  By Harper (Year 3, Penrith Anglican College)

  I once had an orange octopus
  I put him in the bath and told him to shush
  My Mum went to hop in
  She yelled and said "put him in the bin" 

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• Australia
  By Elijah (Year 5, St Patrick's Primary School)

  A dazzling horizon,
  Painted an orange blue,
  light shines on the ocean,
  as peaceful as can be.

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• The Creek
  By Maann (Year 5, Wollongong Public School)

  “Plip Plop Plip Plop”
  The duck drank with its beak,
  Slowly, with no rush.
  “Splash” the fish swam through the calm creek.

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• Tasmanian Tiger
  By Madeline (Year 3, Pymble Ladies' College)

  In the scrub it will prowl,
  hiding in a den, all without mercy for a little creature.
  Look! It's getting ready to strike,
  like a stamp of my feet, it lands.

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• The Nightcap Oak
  By George (Year 5, Rainbow Ridge School for Steiner Education)

  I hear, tell, of an endangered tree.
  A tree that only lives on Mt Nardi
  What does it look like? What might it be?
  Let's go find out, just you and me.

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• Shellharbour
  By Roxie (Year 11, William Branwhite Clarke College)

  Upon the shell shore where waves gently embrace the land,
  A tranquil haven, where footprints mark the sand,
  Tales of fleeting moments, stories of lives well lived
  The sun and the sea, Shellharbour, a timeless place of peace.
  

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• Ocean
  By Onyx (Year 5, Hawthorndene Primary School)

  I listen to the ocean whisper in the breeze,
  I taste the salt in the air,
  I see the waves crashing,
  I touch the cool sea water,

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• Snowfall
  By Grace (Year 10, Tumut High School)

  I lay in front of the crackling fire
  looking out the window
  at the white blanket covering the ground.
  The moon's reflection glistening,

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• Help Endangered Animals
  By Andrea (Year 2, Oatley West Public School)

  Every creature should be spared
  Never, ever should be dead
  Very beautiful, under care
  In the world but

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• Breakage
  By Rafay (Year 5, Gwynneville Public School)

  And so his nightmare came true. One beautiful
  day, an eagle so big landed on the stick and it snapped.
  It screamed.
  

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• Whooshing Waterfalls
  By Gabriella (Year 3, Lockleys Primary School)

  Waterfalls are blue, the colour of the sea.
  They swoosh down,
  Down below waterfalls, there can be many things.
  Fish swimming. 

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• The Destruction
  By Flynn (Year 5, Murray Farm Public School)

  The destruction, I pray
  will end some day
  the hopes of others
  hoping it stays like it did

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• return
  By Mina (Year 10, University High School)

  Lavender, baby’s breath, peonies and heart
                    Sitting heavily at the palm of the world
         What I don’t understand is,
  How even the white lilies in the gardens 

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• The endangered grey swimmer
  By Kai (Year 6, Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School)

  As my arm rests on the rim                  
  I see a large fin 
  As I look across the reef
  A look of disbelief

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