Student poems

• My Floral Adventure
  By Catherine (Year 5, St Brendan's Catholic Primary School)

  The windy breeze rushes through my hair. 
  The flowers blow around and leaves rustle too. 
  I think its gonna get wet! 
  The sharp, needle-like spear plant pokes me when I walk past. 

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

  The tree is big and kind
  The green leaves are so wet
  The tree makes me happy
  

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• Greed Reigns King
  By Lucas (Year 10, St John's Grammar School)

  Feeling Earth below,
  A cool bed beneath bright stars,
  Growing ever strong.
  Greed poisons my Earth,

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• The Rainforest
  By Benji (Year 5, Montpellier Primary School)

  The morning sun breaks holes in the trees,
  Dew falls off the damp leaves.
  Crickets, birds and monkeys make silence impossible,
  The tall old trees with thick, strong trunks.

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• Fatal Flaw
  By Caelan (Year 12, Charlton Christian College)

  The city air was late nights dipped in coffee, early mornings on public transport just as the sun is rising.
  Air fresh and bright and melancholy, too;
  a note of the irreversibly human, which might have been beautiful,
  but instead was a bleach stain on the purple twilit sky. 

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• The Sweetest Song Of The Bush
  By Winter (Year 6, St Peter's Anglican College - Broulee)

  They laugh all day,
  It won't go away,
  The sweetest song of the bush,
  They fly around to the ground,

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• Our Wondrous Garden
  By Ariana (Year 7, Domremy Catholic College)

  Crispy leaves lining each branch,
  A divine floral aroma.
  Leaves flow down in a calming drift. 
  Our garden is a place of wonder and peace.

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• Frogs
  By Ivy (Year 6, Marrickville Public School)

  Plip plop drip drop
  Evening sunset glimmers
  As the river shimmers
  Slippery silver nets tucked into riverbeds and blankets of moss

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• I love trees
  By Aimee (Year 12, The Lakes College)

  I love trees. They make the air clean, give me shade and help me breathe. I love trees. 
  

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• Arecaceae
  By Mateusz (Year 4, St Paul's Catholic Primary School)

  MW: Honey-scented Arecaceae, in the burning heat, by the sea, with just me, near the Arecaceae tree. Those big stripy leaves, with the thick hollow wood, which feel like soft smooth silk. I hear inside some of the small chirpy cockatoos. With those big juicy coconuts up on top, which very quickly fall ready to eat. Don’t try climbing them. I bet y…

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• My happy place
  By Aliya (Year 8, Macquarie Fields High School)

  A place where happiness conquers.
  A place where ring-doves flap their wings blissfully in the wind.
  Where the moonlight’s reflection twinkles of the calmly flowing stream.
  The daffodils create a misty flow against the leaves

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• deep time, Berringa, Wadawurrung Country
  By Freya (Teacher, Williamstown High School)

  desire lines like veins
  colours underfoot
  wet and layered
  all over information

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• Nature
  By Hamta (Year 9, Glenallen School)

  Trees, sun lots of fun
  Fresh air everywhere.
  Gentle breeze
  Through the trees.
  

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• Turtles Way
  By James (Year 6, Sydney Church of England Grammar School)

  Turtle having a normal day
  Finds a plastic bag in its way
  Should he eat it, should he not
  What’s the harm in the bag rot

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

  The tree is fresh and calm
  It makes me feel happy
  

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• Fires
  By Amiirah (Year 4, St Peter's Anglican College - Broulee)

  The sky red as blood the blood of the flames have made people scared, the red skies now slowly turning black at 3pm in the afternoon, all us thought it was 10pm but it was the smoke that covers the skies with thick black smoke, The cars all along Batemans
  bay beach, the fire spreads like satan unleashed hell, the people watch the houses burn to the…

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• Nature Poem
  By Logan (Year 6, Port Kembla Public School)

  As leaves swish in the wind and birds fly high in the sky
  and as the sun rises and shines
  while the owls hide from the sun, cheetah run and run.
  As swans dive and bee swarm there hive,

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• Spring
  By Cathy (Year 5, Korowa Anglican Girls' School)

  It's spring the flower blooms and grass grows.
  The flower is like a giant ball of snow.
  Even the tiniest flower blooms,
  When I touch the soft grass

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• The labyrinth
  By Summer (Year 10, Tumut High School)

  The lines swirl
  The birds sing
  It made me think
  What a beautiful thing

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• The kookaburra
  By Lilly (Year 4, Willow Tree Public School)

  I tasted the fresh air as I peered out my window.
  In the big gum the kookaburra nested near the light flowing creek.
  The shooting star landed in my heart and filled me with light.
  The night sky guided everyone to sleep. 
  

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