Marrai'gang Was Late Poem by Danny Draper

Weetjellan has burst
Gadalung Marrool
Burran - no river camps.

Marrai'gang he cries
Bana'marrai'yung
Lilli Pillys fall.

Burragin courting
Tugarah Tuli
Burringoa blooms.

Wiritjiribin
Tugarah Gunya'marri
Boo'kerrikin buds.

Ngoonungi days
Great beauty seen from afar
Miwa Gawaian

Kai'arrewan gold
Parra'dowee, called eels swarm
Fisher women sing.

Danny Draper
3/5/2016

Notes:
The following trees are from D'harawal Language:

Kai'arrewan - Acacia binervia,
Boo'kerrikin - Acacia decurrens,
Weetjellan - Acacia implexa,
Lilli Pilly - Acmena smithii,
Burringoa - Eucalyptus tereticornis,
Miwa Gawaian - Telopea speciosissima.


Reference

Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology, Indigenous Weather Knowledge, D'harawal Calendar, viewed 3 May 2016, http: //www.bom.gov.au/iwk/dharawal/parradowee.shtml