Custodian's Bundjalung Poem

tuesday 4 november 2025

community leaders –

relationships

whales swim with open mouths – singing

song spiral –

belonging

connections

of ceremony

language that doesn’t change

ancestor boat –

know who the land belongs to

she was the whale

wait for the guidance

sacred names

dont have sacred names you

dont have nothing,

the whale feels the hunter

connection

spirit of the land, Journey of the ocean.

calling to all 

I sing of the body of water, the body 

of water I sing.

_{To honour the integrity of First Nations voices, poems have been reproduced as close as possible to their original text, with light editing for clarity.}