Student poems

• A Walk in the Rain
  By Olivia (Year 4, Austinmer Public School)

  I walked in the rain
  I saw a gorgeous flower
  And a blue bird too
  

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• Dingo
  By Ivy (Year 3, Toorloo Arm Primary School)

  Golden fur
  Running through the grasslands
  Howling in the night
  Waiting for a pounce

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• Life of a Bird
  By William (Year 5, Fitzroy North Primary School)

  Each year we come 
  Each year we feast 
  This year we breathe
  This support you give 

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• Life is everywhere
  By Sander (Year 5, Fitzroy North Primary School)

  Life is everywhere from cities to forests to even deep underground.
  Even more in the great sky abound a lot under the seven high seas.
  To deserts and the great unexplored and polar to grasslands to wetlands and lakes.
  From north to south and east to west. There is life there moving, walking, wriggling and slithering.
  

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• Tasmanian devils
  By Abbey (Year 6, Knox Gardens Primary School)

  Oh fierce and fiery Tazzy Devil.
  With liveliness you truly revel.
  In the vast lands of Tasmania's Isle.
  Your presence lights up every mile.

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• My Grandmother
  By Lucas (Year 6, Trinity Grammar Preparatory)

  She held my hand
  As I waddled through the park
  Learning how to walk
  She helped me up, if I fell

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• Bunnies
  By Lily (F/K, Perth College)

  Bunnies
  soft, cute
  sleeping, hopping, scratching
  adorable

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• The Cootamundra Wattle
  By Francesca (Year 7, John XXlll College)

  A ray of yellow sunshine,
  As bright as a canary,
  Trillions of little fluffy pom-poms,
  Bobbing daintily in the wind.

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• The Beach
  By Emma (Year 6, St Luke's Grammar School)

  I found plastic which is the opposite of fantastic.
  These bags are a red flag.
  I think about the animals who are national.
  I'm scared to see the plastic underneath the enthusiastic ocean.

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• Home Is Where The Heart Is
  By Evie (Year 8, Iona Presentation College)

  Home is where the heart is, that’s what they say 
  Underneath the fireplace, that’s where our cat lays 
  Curled up in a ball on the woolen rug 
  Scrambles awake to catch a bug 

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• Mum
  By Destiny (Year 6, Ulladulla Public School)

  As I watched her leave with tears sliding against my face, all I could wonder was what would happen next. Broken inside, feeling empty, made me wonder if she even cared? Did she even care about my feelings or was she just too cold-hearted? The thoughts inside my head pounded on the doors, whilst overflowing out of my shaking mouth. Empty, empty, e…

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• Extraordinary
  By Svetlana (Year 8, St George Girls High School)

  When I go out into the outback
   
  Look at the gravel dirt road under my feet
  At the huge mountains forever there, beyond the horizon

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• Bunny
  By Charlotte (F/K, Perth College)

  Bunny
  White, Cute
  Jumping,
  Hopping, Eating

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• Woylie
  By Joshua (Year 6, Cheltenham Primary School)

  Help me, save me, I am a woylie
   
  It's very sad that foxes want to destroy me, 
  I doubted his strength and speed,

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• The Cute and Chubby Hooded Robin
  By Amelie (Year 6, St Pius X School Windsor Gardens)

  In the lust mainlands of Australia,
  The Hooded Robin glides,
  With beautiful black and white wings,
  And shockingly small in size.

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• The New Forest
  By Chase (Year 5, St Joseph's Primary School, Bulli)

  Crack!
  The forest it grew…it grew…
  Tiny new flowers reaching for the sky,
  Tiny new jewels appear like small sapphires

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• The Red Kangaroo’s Fire Experience
  By Ricky (Year 6, Moonbi Public School)

  They live around the gum trees where the koalas eat all the leaves. Jumping as high as kids on a trampoline.
  Soon this will change. Smoke in the air all, you see is a massive flare. Everyone's horn is honking people. Firemen are coming. Everyone is running.
  Kangaroos jumping, everyone’s heart thumping. Hoping people survive, the land will revive…

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• The Pomegranate Tree
  By Dilara (Year 6, Cringila Public School)

  The pomegranate tree is my guardian,
  fragile, ancient, always watching.
  Slowly, silently swaying,
  its leaves dancing in the breeze,

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• Her Dance
  By Aurora (Year 8, ET Australia Secondary College)

  Dancing, the water trickles down its path,
  a symphony to the plants around it.
  Dancing, wide leaves flap in the wind,
  like wings gliding down on a gust.

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• Daintree Rainforest Glimpses
  By Charli (Year 3, Darlington Public School)

  In the Daintree Rainforest of wonders I glimpsed…
  One billion ancient trees
  Swaying in the brisk breeze.
  In the Daintree Rainforest of wonders I glimpsed…

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