Student poems

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  By Ryshee (Year 7, The Centre of Excellence in Agricultural Education)

  As I strolled through the forest,
  Something caught my eye.
  It was so helpless, lying on the ground,
  It looked like it was about to die.

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• What if
  By Vivian (Year 4, St Michael's Lutheran School)

  What if no one polluted in the ocean?
   I might help it stay that way for as long as I can.
  What if no sea animals died of eating rubbish?
  I could make sure that most of the endangered species in the ocean recovered.

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• The Ant's Hopeless Journey
  By Finn (Year 5, Figtree Public School)

  I am an ant mill, my confused children
  running round and round and around.
  When my little ants go over and over
  again enough times they will leave their

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• The red creatures who came
  By Annalise (Year 5, St Mary's Anglican Girls' School (Inc))

  We call them devils
  They were the red creatures who came
  Foxes the humans called them
  Deadly hunters, silent as a grave

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• Eliminated Lives
  By Zoe (Year 6, Cheltenham Primary School)

  They took away his horn
  They took away her antlers 
  Leaving unsafe fawn.
   

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• Father, Daughter and Mother Earth
  By Annabel (Year 5, St John Bosco Catholic Primary School)

  Surrounded by plants and trees 
  Flowers attracting bees 
  Staying together hand in hand 
  Walking in the red dusty sand 

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• Whispers of the Eucalyptus Tree
  By Ben (Year 12, The Hutchins School)

  On a perch in green, I rest and dream,
  up above on a soaring branch, beside the stream. 
  Eucalyptus whispers, stories unfold,
  of ancient times and secrets untold.

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• Forests Along The Way
  By Archer (Year 8, Henry Kendall High School)

  Big nests everywhere,
  big enough for your family to sleep in.                          
   
  Redwood trees surrounding your soul

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• Bush fire poem
  By Saul (Year 5, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School)

  Trees burning, 
  lives lost, 
  worried hearts, 
  anxious souls.

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• Mountain biking
  By Lachlan (Year 8, Murwillumbah High School)

  After school we go home to pack,
  we drive out to the mountain bike track.
  We rush up the hills to go back,
  we only have until dusk, 

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• Life
  By Ali (Year 10, Minaret College - Officer Campus)

  This man may be happy,
  But this man is like every other living species.
  Smiles, bright on the outside,
  But is hurt on the inside.

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• Ocean Danger
  By Kayden (Year 6, One Tree Hill Primary School)

  The ocean is dangerous.
  Danger lies deep in the blue.
  Creatures seem to be watching you.
  Prey it does see in its eyes. 

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• Dance of the Fireflies
  By Talya (Year 8, Tintern Schools)

  The moon shines a gentle gleam over earth's life,
  Flickering stars, earth's own light,
  In the hush of a summer night.
   

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• Haiku
  By James (Year 2, Southern Cross Early Childhood School)

  Nectar turns into
  Honey, bees help. Sweet yummy
  Amazing honey.
  

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• Flowers
  By Isabella (Year 2, Elsternwick Primary School)

  Flowers are beautiful flowers are pink and purple they are all kinds of
  colours and they get watered every two weeks or so some flowers are big and some are small but size does not mature at all  I love fowers they smell very nice you need to see them more than twice
  

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• The Reflector of the Stars
  By Olive (Year 5, Newcastle Grammar School)

  She is calming in the day, with the sun shining on my face.
  She is quiet in the night, when only the waves whispering to me can be heard.
  I wonder if the stars jump off the night sky into the water, making tiny splashes.
  She is as soothing as the rain, pitter-pattering on a tin roof.

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• Orange-Bellied Parrot
  By Izzy (Year 6, St Michael's Collegiate School)

  The beautiful parrot swoops through the trees,
  Its orange belly flashing.
  It lands in its nest,
  Comes down to rest,

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• Tasmanian devil
  By Jason (Year 1, Glebe Public School)

  Tasmanian devil
  looking at me
  black chocolate
  he's medium-sized

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• Koala
  By Oliver (Year 5, Abbotsford Primary School)

  Koala, we see you climbing where you feast
  You lovely little beast
  We see you
  Munching and crunching.

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• BEAR NOT LAZY
  By Logan (Year 5, Willmott Park Primary School)

  Bear
  Kind of look like pear
  Bear hibernate
  Bear very happy

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