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• City Pigeon
  By Violet (Year 5, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Flying 'round the city 
  Looking for wholemeal bread
  Well aren't you pretty
  As you land upon my head

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• Education
  By Roshan (Teacher, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Did you know that trees
  have a lifespan? (I did not know this)
  – and that the people who planted
  trees in public parks did not always

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• Nocturnal eyes
  By Zeke (Year 12, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Those glaring nocturnal eyes
  Gazing upon the dark night skies
  The howling winds scream through the trees
  And those nocturnal eyes begin to freeze

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• Tessellated Stick-insect
  By Lili-Grace (Year 12, Kelvin Grove State College)

  I reach out to all the ones who came before me. I ponder what is right.
  And I come from a conscience where there is no conjugation. 
  I would rather be devoured than be broken. 
  I have gone as far as the eye can blame and now my life has been erased.

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• Night's Friend (Tawny Frogmouth)
  By Violet (Year 5, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Night is your day
  Day is your night 
  Your glowing eyes alight 
   

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• No Species More Threatened Than Our Own
  By Tapasya (Year 9, Kelvin Grove State College)

  He can’t talk about the scars on his arm,
  he thinks he’ll only cause more harm
  and when his mate asked what happened, he changes the topic.
  Why does everyone expect that our lives are outlined with a copic?

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• Golden bottles
  By Amelie (Year 12, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Should've known better
  than to bury the seeds beneath,
  encapsulated by the glass.
  Gentle but shard,

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• A salute to our bees
  By Leonard (Year 7, Kelvin Grove State College)

  A buzz that is failing              
  A spirit that wanes                 
  Our own native bees that
  Die more with each day                     

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• Lost In Nostalgia
  By Tapasya (Year 8, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Sunshine and soft rain embraces you.
  Moist forest floor, the air odorous of dew,
  Stray wattles growing at the base of the forest floor,
  Littered with tall, forest redgum trees by the moor.

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• Pythons
  By Elektra (Year 12, Kelvin Grove State College)

  It's nice out of the shade
  On my rock sunning my scales
  The heat is comfortable to me but not to others
  I'm curled in a spiral, 

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• Nature's Bounty
  By Lachlan (Year 12, Kelvin Grove State College)

  Penning words from sap
  Upon paper wrought from bark
  Nature's bounty speaks
  

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