Student poems

• I Love My Doll
  By Olivia (Year 5, Balgowlah Heights Public School)

  I love my doll
  precious, precious, precious
  she is as light as snowfall
  as special as a necklace

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• The Dreaming Dog, The Wondering Girl.
  By Vinny (Year 7, Hornsby Girls High School)

  The dog lay in a cosy box, peacefully, sleeping.
  I wondered what she was dreaming about;
  If dogs dreamt at all. Maybe she was keeping,
  Keeping, a memory. Perhaps, with her little snout,

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• A winning six
  By Milo (Year 6, Leichhardt Public School)

  Thump
  Crack
  Ooh
  Those are the sounds I hear

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• Frozen In Time
  By Lulu (Year 7, Benowa State High School)

  A symbol of captivity,
  a symbol of life,
  a lonely bug and crab,
  now husband and wife,

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• My Medal
  By Ebonie (Year 5, Willmott Park Primary School)

  They call my name,
  It sparkles in the light,
  I love it already,
  The medal,

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• Memories
  By Sylvie (Year 7, Benowa State High School)

  Encapsulated in writhing golden coils,
  spiralling around my past,
  measuring my present,
  foreseeing my future.

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• Nature's gift
  By Sofia (Year 4, Arkana College)

  Nature's glorious gifts have started to fade
  By all the mistakes that humans have made
   
  Wretched rubbish here, plastic there

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• My Cat
  By Wolfgang (Year 3, Fitzroy North Primary School)

  When she purrs she’s like a puma when it’s happy,
  Sometimes I imagine her saying “Stop holding my belly”
  I think of her as a spy walking trough the dusk,
  At dark she sleeps throughout the night but by day she is very adventurous.

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• My Talisman Bracelet
  By Jemma (Year 6, Broken Hill School of the Air)

  Delicate silver chain,
  Dangles on my arm.
  In my memory it will remain,
  The memory of the wedding will always be a charm.

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• Deforestation
  By Claire (Year 8, Reddam House)

  I am growing, leaves sprouting. My branches are longer. I can see the whole forest with my eyes. A breeze blew past my body. My leaves are singing a song among the wind. I then look in the distance, humans are walking toward me, and a giant yellow machine is right behind them. I panic, I cry, I am scared. That is what took my mum away. I look back…

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• My Watch
  By Meric (Year 5, Brighton-le-Sands Public School)

  We walk together my watch and l.
  My watch is
  Attached to me.
  Together we live.

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• The Little Dancer
  By Bo (Year 6, Balgowlah Heights Public School)

  She stands on the shelf, strong, proud, protecting as she stares into the past.
  Her hair, the colour of demons' eyes, is pulled back, tight behind her head, in a circle.
  Her leotard stretches over her slender body, outlining her small, powerful frame.
  She balances on her silk-wrapped toes, her body arching, telling a story through dance.

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• Whale Poem
  By Chase (Year 4, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School)

  The Whale.
  Giant cool creature of the sea.
  Gliding through the clear ocean,
  The whale SPLASHES and flops in the water.

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• Grasshoppers
  By Isabella M & Zarah (Year 4, Edge Hill State School)

  Grasshoppers hop around all day.
  They love to eat, sing and play.
  A cruel farmer came 
  And took away all their fame

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• The medals of my Great Grandfather
  By Henry (Year 9, Nelson College)

  The mist of war clouds our minds.
  The hills turn a dark red with blood of the fallen and red
  with the flowers that bloom with our respect.
  The air becomes heavy with fake hope and endless pain.

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• My Bracelet
  By Georgie (Year 6, Nicholson Street Public School)

  My favourite piece of jewellery
  Years have gone by with my bracelet
  
  Brings my aunty and I closer

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• Bird's eye view
  By Kavin (Year 7, Macquarie Fields High School)

  As the feathers of mine float in the wind,
  Pushing against this thing called gravity as if it’s nothing,
  Birds around me as I glide moving in sync as if one,
  Above everything that everyone finds to be beauty,

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• Magic Forest Fairytale
  By Annabelle (Year 1, St Joseph's Catholic School)

  In the middle of the forest
  on a peaceful eve,
  in the warm calm wind
  mauve trees sway their leaves.

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• Pink, Perfect, Princess
  By Kiana (Year 4, Willmott Park Primary School)

  Softer than a pink fluffy pillow,
  Pink like a flamingo that just got cleaned,
  Her wings change colour when you move them,
  She has a shiny black nose and a halo on her head,

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• ‘Yellow Ribbon’
  By Bella (Year 8, Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College)

  You were the final touch
  A bright silky yellow
  Once worn everyday
  Now dirty and faded with age

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