The beautiful pink sunrise
says yama to the big
blue sky.
Baby humpback whale
spinning in the waves, with
their mum and their dad.
They’re singing to the other humpback whales
To make them come. Calling their
grandma, grand pa,
Aunties, uncles, cousins.


To honour the integrity of First Nations voices, poems have been reproduced as close as possible to their original text, with light editing for clarity.