The ocean

By First Nations Students

Published 16 February 2026

The ocean is getting

cleaned up.

The people help clean up

so the fish, whales and stingray

can play – beautiful clean amazing ocean bubbly cool

strong animals, blue carm

A digitised version of a child's illustration in black, showing underwater creatures, fish, and a human figure diving amongst seaweed. — This illustration was hand-drawn by a First Nations student 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.