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Almost like a wet snowflake that could never be<br />
On her sickly, shaking palm<br />
The blaring lights dissipate<br />
As the steady beeps merge slowly<br />
Into a calm humming line<br />
And I see her smiling,<br />
Those soft, soft words.<br />
„Don‟t be afraid‟.<br />
Judge’s Comment<br />
A vividly imagined scene, with excellent use of language<br />
James Ross<br />
Cranbrook School<br />
BELLEVUE HILL NSW<br />
There Is a Boat on the Horizon<br />
There was a boat on the horizon<br />
Endeavour<br />
An outsider<br />
A people<br />
They glow a pearly white<br />
They‟re constricted by blue and red<br />
They speak in loud licks<br />
Shrill as the cockatoo<br />
Smallpox and muskets<br />
Death and destruction<br />
Thousands of years<br />
Altered in minutes<br />
They pave the land drab<br />
They fence the land jigsaw<br />
They cross the land black<br />
Terra Nullius<br />
We are the nation of plenty<br />
The land of sweeping plains<br />
A people of open arms<br />
A people of deep-found fear<br />
There is a war<br />
There is persecution<br />
We are the haves<br />
They are the have-nots<br />
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