Custodian’s Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodians
Published 16 February 2026
Sitting on the sparkly dark blue ripples
singing joy together
as one. We watch
the ancestor boat drift knowingly
to our… longingly
where we trust the
Protection
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.