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 -
cultural machines
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)whale calls
to me, whale
sees me,
grandmothers -
Woman's Business
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)yapa – Sister
Wawa – Brother –
Gaynabarr family – Tony, Heather, Tina
name morning star -
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 -
Custodian's Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodians (Byron Bay Public School)Community leaders.
Respect
Relationship
Song Spirals (word of song story) -
what I heard
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)water
whales
singing
flipping -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Salty water
By Milo (Byron Bay Public School)Pop, bubbles, water, ocean,
Salty water
I like to swim
Surf, I see turtles -
Custodian's Bundjalung Poem
By Bundjalung Custodian (Byron Bay Public School)tuesday 4 november 2025
community leaders –
relationships
whales swim with open mouths – singing -
seaweed and me
By First Nations Students (Byron Bay Public School)So whale is in salt water
it eats plankton, it sings to find its
family. There are turtles in the ocean,
there is seaweed and me
