Student poems
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Custodian’s Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)Sitting on the sparkly dark blue ripples
singing joy together
as one. We watch
the ancestor boat drift knowingly -
Woman's Business
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)yapa – Sister
Wawa – Brother –
Gaynabarr family – Tony, Heather, Tina
name morning star -
Custodian's Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)Community leaders.
Respect
Relationship
Song Spirals (word of song story) -
cultural machines
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)whale calls
to me, whale
sees me,
grandmothers -
The ocean
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)The ocean is getting
cleaned up.
The people help clean up
so the fish, whales and stingray -
Sea snakes slither
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)In the Big Beautiful bubbling ocean, blue whales hum, Dolphins Dive Down
Deep Jiggling Jellyfish Juggle, Salty Seaweed As sea snakes
Slither On the sand.
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The whale story
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)the smart
octopus
swims
in the -
what I heard
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)water
whales
singing
flipping -
Salty water
By Milo (Byron Bay Public School)Pop, bubbles, water, ocean,
Salty water
I like to swim
Surf, I see turtles -
The whale story
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)a whale thought today would be
a calm day but it was noisy
because there was a fire on
a boat floating around -
In salt waters
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)The whale is in salt waters
and there are jellyfish
in the salt water
I go swimming with
