Student poems
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Estuary
By Cadence (Year 8, Hillcrest Christian College)My toes sink into the snug sand,
My tears slow, as I calm.
I forget the loneliness I felt before,
Welcoming my old friend. -
Deforestation
By Hannah (Year 7, St Ignatius' College Athelstone)No one ever told me the trees are dying off,
They say they are home to species that always fly above,
I say we need to save them, save them for good,
The three million species will die amongst the city soot, -
The Dark Rain
By Cameron (Year 9, Crestwood High School)The raindrops fall down
In the dark trees at midnight
Refreshing the trees
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The Terrifying Day
By Hetty (Year 5, Lansdowne Crescent Primary School)The skink is lightning, bolting for dear life,
A rat huge and scary, a dangerous monster,
Sniffing, sneaking, starving,
The skink brown and small whispering for help, -
Devastation
By Alessia (Year 8, Sacre Coeur (Sacré Cœur))The bushes intertwined, strongly hugging the vines,
but that was years ago.
The trees stood tall, never to fall,
abundant in leaves swaying low. -
Our Nature
By Dan (Year 4, Throsby School)While possums jump and kookaburras laugh
While bottlebrush bloom and mistletoe crafts
While the sun comes up and the moon goes down
While we wake up and redbacks frown -
Stories
By Sarah (Year 11, Northcote High School)Stories told and stories sold,
Spirits old and then controlled.
Hearts aching due to our taking,
Truth unmaking since invaders partaking.
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our future
By Ivy (Year 7, Newman Catholic College)The waves crash violently, the plastic washes ashore
It continues to pile more, more, more
The nets grow bigger, the demand for fish increases
Every second the fish population decreases -
The Jacaranda
By Aidan (Year 6, Cheltenham Primary School)The slight zephyr of the wind forever frolics,
Through the warped branches of this Jacaranda.
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The Rebounding of Nature
By Rafa (Year 6, Lidcombe Public School)Stuck in the enigmatic woodland,
the eerie moon follows me by an invisible strand.
Uncanny ravens croak a conundrum,
oh where shall I find the light from? -
Full of Nature
By Lailah (Year 3, Morphett Vale East School)Wherever Lailah goes,
she sees nature.
Loves nature,
loves saving it. -
Chaos and Harmony
By Alna (Year 9, Yeronga State High School)A lonesome baby bird, nesting in a lonesome tree, in a lonesome forest.
Warbling gleefully as the sun rises up into the sky.
The auburn-brown, transluscent leaves slowly drift down, down, down.
Onto the ground. -
Where Did My Friends Go?
By Olivia (Year 8, Iona Presentation College)High up in the trees, a koala lays
Chomping on the leaves from down below
The only thing on its mind, 'where did my friends go?'
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OCEAN
By Emmason (Year 7, Whitebridge High School)I think deeply about the beach and ocean
It is a place where I belong
A place where we belong
It is a place that is beautiful -
Flowers
By Reina (Year 5, King Street Public School)Fresh, free, fantastic flowers
Flapping and flopping in the wind
Feeling blessed
Smell of freshness flowing through the fast wind -
Magical Mountains
By Isla (Year 5, Newcastle Grammar School)A mountain is calm, cool, collected and kind
Smooth rocks, whooshing and swooshing skies
Plastic and pollutants fill the place we need to protect it
It’s a natural place -
Garden
By Vanessa (F/K, Kyeemagh Public School)Garden
pretty, floral
planting, tweeting, hearing
I grow sun flowers -
Autumn
By Olivia (Year 6, Korowa Anglican Girls' School)The leaves are leaving the trees,
Swirls of leaves create a gentle breeze.
Golden leaves falling down,
Falling softly to the ground. -
Bilby
By Marlon (Year 5, Gosford Public School)Bilby is what people name me,
They say I am “endangered” now.
My cousins are long gone from here, -
A Tree
By Amy (Year 9, Dripstone Middle School)A tree is nothing extraordinary.
It doesn't attack, it doesn't protect,
It doesn't even move.
It's barely alive, it doesn't do anything.
