Student poems

• Thank you Earth
  By Darci (Year 11, Good Shepherd Catholic College)

  Hi Earth
  Thank you for everything you do 
  Thank you for letting me breathe clean air 
  Thank you for the birds and the bees 

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• Bushfires
  By Sarah (Year 8, Chatswood High School)

  whispers in the air
  all talk about the fires
  fires that have destroyed
  fires that have ruined

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• Coarse Haired Wombats
  By Megan (Year 5, Clayton North Primary School)

  They are fun,
  Since they are blond, like the sand, 
  When they wiggle their bodies
  It’s the funniest thing that you have ever seen.

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• Rattle, Rattle!
  By Nikita (Year 3, St Andrews Public School)

  Rattle! Rattle!
  Went the tree.
  As the slithery, slimy snake
  snuck out of his cage and was free.

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• The Flood
  By Saskia (Year 5, Fitzroy North Primary School)

  I hear animals running, the sound of their footsteps drumming.
  It's too late for us now, I just hope we won't drown.
   
  Where are they? My pride, the lights of my day!

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• One
  By Tara (Year 10, Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus)

  One.
  One life,
  One body, 
  One mind.

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• The west tigers
  By Aidin (Year 7, Sydney Church of England Grammar School North Sydney)

  Oh, oh, oh West Tigers how I wish you were at the top of
  The ladder, I thought we would be winning this season madder. 
  But I was plain wrong, you guys just picked up the ball and played,
  Like you don’t belong. At least we beat the Panthers 8 to 12. 

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• Dandelion Seeds
  By Keira (Year 6, Illawarra Christian School)

  Blowing the dandelions, wish after wish,
  wondering if they will ever come true.
   
  Symbolising new life, but I still feel empty,

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• Hand in Hand
  By Adan (Year 3, Gordon Primary School)

  Chirp chirp the bird squawks high in the sky
  Kangaroos munching on the fresh green grass
  A baby koala hugging its mum, feeling warm and safe
  Groups of animals gathering at the waterfall

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• Saber-tooth Tiger
  By Drupadi (Year 2, Perth College)

  Protected. Fast.
  Scattering, hunting, seeing.
  Fierce as a lion.
  Tracker.
  

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• I fiume
  By Sam (Year 4, Brunswick South Primary School)

  Le folgie arancione cadono giu
  Le rocce col muschio sono come montagne con la neve
  La nebbia e nuvole che cadono giu
  I fiume scioglie il silenzio via lontano
  

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• The Winter Forest
  By Jacinta (Year 5, St Patrick's Primary School Parramatta)

  As I walk through the the forest,
  Surrounded by crickets chirping,
  Accompanied by frogs croaking.
   

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• Better for Bees
  By Samantha (Year 7, Bishop Druitt College)

  F l i t t e r  about
  Searching for that blurred colour
  A promise of food
  Get closer

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• Brigitte's Poem
  By Brigitte (Year 3, Gordon Primary School)

  Hi there can you leave me
  Said the crow shoosh
  Said cockatoo no
  You shoosh said crow

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• The day I lost someone
  By Marvin (Year 6, Trinity Grammar Preparatory)

  Feeling grief linger around me like a cloud,
  Raining heavy hail stones of cold dread.
  Hearing the rustle of nature as I walk by,
  These are the memories that drift past and force me to smile.

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• The Mushrooms Are Here
  By Erin (Year 11, Launceston College)

  The mushrooms erupted
  in one frost-laden night,
  like the white plumes of mist hung
  over Ben Lomond;

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• Symbiosis
  By Jasmine (Year 8, St Dominic's Priory College)

  Within us, they dwell, their lives, symbiotic with ours,
  Our breath, their beating hearts, our water, their reservoirs,
  Just as we care for them,
  They do,

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• The Daintree
  By Arelia (Year 6, Brisbane Christian College)

  She journeys,
  in awe of the wondrous world around her.
  She sees
  the vibrant greens of ferns and bull kauri, the dappled sunlight, the twisting vines;

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• Grandma's Garden
  By Charlotte (Year 11, William Branwhite Clarke College)

  In Grandma’s Garden fragrant blooms reside, 
  Their colours burst with life, side by side.  
  Their fragrance whispers on the breeze,  
  Aromatic secrets put my mind at ease.  

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• Dingo
  By Amna (Year 2, Perth College)

  Dingo
  Cute, fierce
  Running, eating, jumping.
  Fast as a car.

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