The whale story
By First Nations Students
Published 1 December 2025
a whale thought today would be
a calm day but it was noisy
because there was a fire on
a boat floating around
a calm day but it was noisy
because there was a fire on
a boat floating around
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.