Student poems

• - 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

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• Cape Conran
  By Lauren (Year 9, Toorak College)

  When I was three, I met you. 
  Falling asleep to your crashing waves, 
  which smooth the stones you left for me to find. 
  Safely wrapped in your blanket made of stars. 

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• The Tree by the Lake
  By Annalise (Year 9, Toorak College)

  I was never granted a mirror, 
  Instead, I own a puddle of tears, reflecting my lean, emerald figure, 
  In the winter, I shed. 
  One crisp leaf after the other.

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• Metamorphosis
  By Maria (Year 10, Toorak College)

  Slowly, extend arm to the darkness
  The limb will elongate
  Sprouts, humble and naive, will 
  carefully come out of their hiding

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• Zephyr
  By Ada (Year 9, Toorak College)

  A zephyr stirs the old bones of a Eucalyptus regnan
  Years of growth grasping the ever-changing sky
   
  As if she could fly

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• Paperbark: Melaleuca irbyana
  By Aloma (Teacher, Toorak College)

  Lady,
  your exfoliation
  seems extreme.
   

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• Our Meadow
  By Sophie (Year 11, Toorak College)

  Trees whispering secrets
  of times long ago,
  dancing lithely in the breeze.
  Animals lounging, laying, lazing

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• Sapling
  By Leona (Year 9, Toorak College)

  Swaddled in their cocoon I grow,
  sprouting from the sugar crumb ground.
  Softly kneaded to an airy bliss by those spooling above,
  their opulent green bushels blanket me in a comforting cool, 

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• Snow Gums
  By Aloma (Teacher, Toorak College)

  The dancers
  curve and twist,
  shift, sashay
  and bow.

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• Banksia integrifolia
  By Aloma (Teacher, Toorak College)

  Feet planted in the ground,
  skin coarsened by salt wind,
  along the coast,
  you stand watch.

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• Her, Sky
  By Elise (Year 9, Toorak College)

  A quilt wraps around her covered in a starry array.
  She hides her creatures within it,
  Allowing the trees to rest their leaves 
  From her past harsh rays. 

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• Remnant River Red Gum: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
  By Aloma (Teacher, Toorak College)

  The old man
  points his gnarled fingers
  in mute accusation
  at the sky.

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• Autumn
  By Ella (Year 8, Toorak College)

  As autumn arrives it starts to get cold
  The leaves are slowly turning gold
  The nights get dark
  So away fly the larks

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