Student poems
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Australian Sea Lion
By Emily (Year 6, Rossmoyne Primary School)Twisting and turning like a rollercoaster.
A glistening school of fish roam into the distance.
Are they really the ocean's clowns?
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Deep Diving
By Sabrina (Year 5, Mount Ousley Public School)Our precious coral reefs are dying right before our eyes
They turn grey, they bleach,
They eventually die
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A Butterfly
By Cameron (Year 8, Hillcrest Christian College)A delicate beauty
A glimpse of another world
A piece of spontaneity
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Climate Change
By Lachlan (Year 6, Ulladulla Public School)The earth is warming, the ice caps melt
Our planet's future, we must not shelve
Climate change is real, it's not a myth
We need to act now, before it's too late to fix -
Mountains
By Loulou (Year 7, Kardinia International College)Mountains leading up to the clouds
In a beautiful momentous
Event.
The ground shakes -
The beach
By Kye (Year 6, Fairy Meadow Demonstration School)The beach is my brother I waddle into the salt air
The sand as hot as coal and yet soft as a pillow
Sand falling through the tips of my toes
The water crawling up the sand, touching my toes, washing the sand away -
The home of 12 apostles
By Nisha (Year 7, St Ignatius' College Athelstone)The ice cold sea smashes against the rocks, the stones stand tall and proud. This land is free of time and clocks, with the wind whistling strong and loud.
This sacred pl… -
Tree Park
By Aiden (Year 4, Figtree Public School)The tree was still
The sky was bright blue
It felt like a connection
Each step l took, the connection grew -
trees
By George (Year 4, Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School)Leaves rustle,
While rivers flow,
and roots grow,
trees make the fruit and we make the food, -
Blue Whale
By Zerya (Year 2, Brunswick South Primary School)the blue whale
is the royalty of the sea
the blue whale
lives with darting fish -
We are Ruining our Land
By Indiana (Year 4, Sacre Coeur (Sacré Cœur))We have to take care
Our environment is dying and you need to beware
We are ruining our land
The land that has been grown, for many years before our own -
- it's raining -
By Marley (Year 9, Toorak College)why is it always sunshine and blossoms but never about rain?
why is its trickle mistaken for sadness,
when all it wants is to be seen?
is it because it comes with beautiful destruction -
Turtles
By Maddy (Year 6, Knox Gardens Primary School)The waves bite down hard,
As the ocean blooms with life,
Plashes and beauty,
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Land around me?
By Zariah (Year 6, Farmborough Road Public School)I walk into the land, the land I should be in.
I look up and see relaxed trees blowing around me, trees going towards me as I smell cool air, sun, wind, trees, come, come towards me Orange sun, orange sun far, far away from me.
Mat, mat winding through breeze come say hello to me, I can feel the sun on the side of my face, it feels so smooth.
Quiet, … -
Beach!
By Aurelie (Year 4, Brunswick South Primary School)The beach is a warming feeling in my mind.
A wooshing sound passing my mind.
It feels cold but not quite.
Slippery sand creeping into my toes. -
Brown Goshawk
By Daniella (Year 8, Iona Presentation College)Ooh brown goshawk what will happen when you're gone
Your truthful tameness and captivated curiosity
Lost but not forgotten for all eternity
Ooh brown goshawk you're an endangered species, so wronged -
Our Earth!
By Isabelle (Year 5, Cammeray Public School)Our Earth!
Take a wonderful trip anywhere,
Our earth has captivating clouds,
Sliding across the broad blue sky, -
My safe place
By Aleesha (Year 10, Bossley Park High School)In nature's arms, I find my sanctuary,
A tranquil haven, where my soul is free.
Beneath the azure sky, I breathe with ease,
Amongst the rustling leaves, I find my peace. -
Winter
By Nellie (Year 5, Brunswick South Primary School)Grief falling from the sky.
Peaceful but frozen inside.
Dozing forever like a hero
With many stab wounds of betrayal. -
Cherry Blossoms and Nostalgia
By Josephine (Year 10, Chatswood High School)A splash of pink on bare outreaching limbs,
Behind cracked fingers, beauty nearly missed.
Of pink, Japan, nostalgia, synonyms,
Evoking years ago, when ground it kissed.
