Student poems

• water is wet
  By Kody (Year 8, Central Coast Sports College)

  Seagulls squirming in the night
  Slowly walking on crunchy sand
  Waves splashing in the dark
  The crackling of the sticks being stepped on

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• Grey Sky
  By Anna (Year 5, St Therese's Catholic Primary School)

  A magic mist comes over me, I watch the sky turn grey.
  An open space for me to breathe as brightness turns to darkened day.
  I feel the stillness of the dusk, the first drops start to fall.
  Eucalyptus smells appear, my bones relax, my worries are gone.
  

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• A Wake-up Call
  By Dharmi (Year 7, Parramatta High School)

  The Earth needs you to change your ways,
  month by month and day by day.
  The changes are easy,
  Just look and you will see.

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• Turn The Heater Off!
  By Sharla (Year 12, Mount St Joseph Girls' College)

  "Turn the heater off kid! Who pays the bills in this burrow?"
  Mum thinks it's the heater, but I stress, my brow furrowed
  The plants are dying and the soil is drying,
  All while the rich, white men continue buying

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• Nature’s treasures
  By Eric (Year 2, St Philip's Christian College)

  The lush, green grass brushes past my feet
  and as the sun shines its like a warm greet. 
  Quick as lightning, the wind will blow
  with leaves and dry grass, the blue river will flow.

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• The Blissful life
  By Emilio (Year 7, Mamre Anglican School)

  Trees sway in the wind, birds chirp in harmony
  Wind strokes my skin, like a massage
  up and down,
  up and down.

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• trees
  By Ava (Year 10, The Lakes College)

  we need trees to survive 
  

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• The Tree
  By Clover (F/K, Mount Eliza Primary School)

  The tree is happy.
  It makes me feel happy.
  

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• Our Mess
  By Imogen (Year 5, Stanmore Public School)

  Piles and piles of rubbish, towers and towers of unnecessary waste.
  DISGUSTING.
  Toxic gas weaves its way through our lungs.
  EVIL.

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• trees
  By Draya (Year 6, George Street Primary School - Hamilton)

  Trees grow from small to really
  Big. But only some trees grow
  Big. Not all grow big they get 
  Cut down because they are too big, 

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• They won't come back
  By Isabel (Year 3, St Joseph's Primary School, Hawthorn)

  Deep down in the sea or up in the sky,
  There are animals moving gracefully every night.
  SWISH…SWOOSH
  I hear them searching for safety.

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• The ballad of the skink
  By Thomas (Year 5, Balmain Public School)

  A skink endangered by fire
  Without us they are toast
  If however no action is done then humans will be the next to fall
   

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• Country from the window
  By Massimo (Year 7, Telopea Public School)

  Close your eyes and you will see the way the world should be 
  Waking up to the luscious green grass
   
  Frost pouring out on the land like a spilt jug 

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• Trees
  By Holly (Year 1, Zig Zag Public School)

  Trees are such a lovely thing.
  Nature is best in the spring.
  Trees help birds to hold the nest.
  It is always trees that I like best.
  

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• Cassowary
  By Wes (Year 3, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School)

  Tiptoeing in the bushes,
  Sprinting past trees.
  Is a big, sneaky Cassowary!
  It is a fantastic sight,

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• Rock
  By Dominic (Year 4, St Patrick's Primary School)

  Rocks are hard and tough
  But don’t forget sometimes they can be buffed
  They go looking for food to eat
  Sometimes with their feet

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• The Three Sisters
  By Alexis (Year 7, Picton High School)

  Standing in the rain getting washed lightly.
  Standing in the wind slowly crumbling.
  Standing below the burning stars and cool moon.
  Standing as the sun warms their rough surface.

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• Billy Buttons
  By Woodrow (Year 1, Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary Bulli)

  It is shining on my face
  It is sparkling
  Oh so fluffy and gold.
  

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• Fish tank
  By Asher (Year 7, Willunga Waldorf School)

  Fish in the water,
  yummy, yummy, yum,
  fish in the water,
  yummy, yummy, yum,

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• Bright Light
  By Matilda (Year 3, Bellevue Heights Primary School)

  The light shines from the lightning onto the ground,
  To light the night with bright light.
  

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