together as one
By Lucy
Published 1 December 2025
There patient
wise
trustworthy have
a connection to mother
earth.
The ocean crashes
with force but in
a way it’s calm.
Growing country
with more to come
whales with a past a long history
in there mind
a part of earth
what have they
Seen.
Sitting on the sparkelry
dark blue ripples
singing joyfully
together as one.
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.