Week 3 – Australian Literature

Write a poem or piece of creative prose that expresses your sense of how we should “grow” our relationship to indigenous Australians?

Secluded

from

each other.

Europeans

and

Aborigines

separated.

Through our stories

of life and history

love and loss

Europeans,

and

Aborigines

may come closer.

Until

Aboriginals, and

Europeans

may grow together.

When the day comes

through stories of different lives.

Aboriginals and Europeans

will be on the same line.