Senior Secondary
Senior Secondary Senior Secondary
chandeliers, coloured cockatiels, just like the ones that you used to steal. I don‟t need you for inspiration; I‟m just fine with my imagination. 30 It works better than you in terms of teleportation. But, like Charlotte from her web, I give you my salutations. If the ink runs dry and the paper burns, you don‟t have to be too concerned because you know, I can just run down to the store 35 and do this thing called „buy some more‟, I know you like taking care of things but listen carefully, I want this to ring through your mind: Honestly, I‟m doing just fine. 40 Once you said that with all I type I might just run out of letters to form, but I‟m pretty sure my wit disagrees. I‟ll write about blue doors, about rolling on the floor. 45 I‟ll write more and more and more and more and more. I‟ll write about my cat, about the sky turning black. I‟ll write more and more and more. exploding stars 50 mini racing cars yellow, flowery hats shaggy, grey mats greeting cards hiding in the dark 55 cellophane a good board game zombies and rainbows umbrellas and raincoats red cake tins 60 an art supply bin soft braided hair feelings of the air ice cream vans a box of sand 65 Welcome to my imagination. Judge’s Comment I like a good list poem, and this is that. great images and humour Henry Poole Cranbrook School 24
BELLEVUE HILL NSW Terra Nullius They came down under, deep down under terra nullius they called it a false name though, it was… From the motherland they came their ships, vast and tall beasts unwelcome on our shores they plagued our precious coast with foul tongue and outlandish dress we were here and still terra nullius they called it They swarmed in, choking us with their fumes polluting our land, our culture they were pests in this country unwelcome, unwanted, uninvited they made it their own terra nullius, no man‟s land We became foreigners banished from our home Yes, we are still here no longer is this land our own we are the strangers unnatural, alien, displaced they came down under, deep down under and terra nullius they called it They came down under, deep down under terra nullius they called it a false name though, it was… From the motherland they came their ships, vast and tall beasts unwelcome on our shores they plagued our precious coast with foul tongue and outlandish dress we were here and still terra nullius they called it They swarmed in, choking us with their fumes polluting our land, our culture they were pests in this country unwelcome, unwanted, uninvited they made it their own terra nullius, no man‟s land We became foreigners banished from our home Yes, we are still here no longer is this land our own we are the strangers unnatural, alien, displaced 25
- Page 1 and 2: Senior Secondary __________________
- Page 3 and 4: The mellowness of the hollow terrac
- Page 5 and 6: His woollen jumper i hold in my han
- Page 7 and 8: But there, an inky black gap, hidin
- Page 9 and 10: But together a creature that moves
- Page 11 and 12: Even challenging change and being f
- Page 13 and 14: again And we swam once more. The ne
- Page 15 and 16: Table groaning beneath the weight o
- Page 17 and 18: The whole earth seems to illuminate
- Page 19 and 20: I wish they‟d snapped a candid sh
- Page 21 and 22: Madeleine La James Ruse Agricultura
- Page 23: Crystals creeping from root to tip
- Page 27 and 28: For they look upon, Smiles bitterly
- Page 29 and 30: Inferno in Arafura Overboard at Chr
- Page 31 and 32: Only through this, their immobile f
BELLEVUE HILL NSW<br />
Terra Nullius<br />
They came down under, deep down under<br />
terra nullius they called it<br />
a false name though, it was…<br />
From the motherland they came<br />
their ships, vast and tall<br />
beasts unwelcome on our shores<br />
they plagued our precious coast<br />
with foul tongue and outlandish dress<br />
we were here<br />
and still terra nullius they called it<br />
They swarmed in, choking us with their fumes<br />
polluting our land, our culture<br />
they were pests in this country<br />
unwelcome, unwanted, uninvited<br />
they made it their own<br />
terra nullius, no man‟s land<br />
We became foreigners<br />
banished from our home<br />
Yes, we are still here<br />
no longer is this land our own<br />
we are the strangers<br />
unnatural, alien, displaced<br />
they came down under, deep down under<br />
and terra nullius they called it<br />
They came down under, deep down under<br />
terra nullius they called it<br />
a false name though, it was…<br />
From the motherland they came<br />
their ships, vast and tall<br />
beasts unwelcome on our shores<br />
they plagued our precious coast<br />
with foul tongue and outlandish dress<br />
we were here<br />
and still terra nullius they called it<br />
They swarmed in, choking us with their fumes<br />
polluting our land, our culture<br />
they were pests in this country<br />
unwelcome, unwanted, uninvited<br />
they made it their own<br />
terra nullius, no man‟s land<br />
We became foreigners<br />
banished from our home<br />
Yes, we are still here<br />
no longer is this land our own<br />
we are the strangers<br />
unnatural, alien, displaced<br />
25
Change language