Custodian's Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodians
Published 16 February 2026
Community leaders.
Respect
Relationship
Song Spirals (word of song story)
Sings the whale
Open mouthed
Calling to all
Love and beyond
Knowledge through wonder
All we waters
here and beyond
inside and over there.
This illustration was hand-drawn by a Custodian and manually digitised by Red Room Poetry staff. 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.