Student poems

• The tide comes and goes
  By Anonymous student (Reiby Youth Justice Centre – Dorchester School)

  The tide comes and goes just like most of us here.
  We are a part of a cycle that flows with friendships and connections
  from across different cultures like currents that move you from place to place.
  It moves and flows as it dances like the rhythm of songlines.

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• Group fire poem
  By Reiby students (Reiby Youth Justice Centre – Dorchester School)

  Bimbali winha birrabang wuruwin dyiraany dhi gibirbang wayan balungin waangandarra bundarra birrang wuruwin murruwa
  (fire burning outside through mountain, my people lost dying, tormenting cloud smoke through wind)
  Staring into the bright orange and yellow flame the mellow smell of the smoke drowns the sorrow away. The sensation of the smoke heighte…

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• As I’m standing there in shock
  By Anonymous student (Reiby Youth Justice Centre – Dorchester School)

  As I’m standing there in shock,
  my heart trying to break through the ice as it plays a rhythm
  thrud thrud thrud thrud.
  Standing there, alone.

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• Murray River flows through my country
  By Anonymous student (Reiby Youth Justice Centre – Dorchester School)

  Murray River flows through my country
  Munya bila yanhanha wuruwin dhi Ngurangbang
  Worms slow
  Dhurrung yindyana

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