Junkyard Beats Poem
Let me refuse
With grace and ease
Let me reduce
And shrink my needs
Let me reuse
All that I can
Let me repurpose
And use it again
Let me recycle
With constant glee
Let me remember
What is for free
I will make do
And be resourceful
Life is for living
And being more playful
My heart within
It beats for me
The sounds I make
Are just the key
To share my soul
To dance and drum
Connecting here
With everyone
Junkyard Beats
Lift my spirit
So join right in
And let’s get to it
On Friday 18 July 2025, I attended the Educate Plus VIC / TAS Summit 2025 at Carey Baptist Grammar School.
The first session of the day was with ‘Junkyard Beats‘ and they shared a message of using what we already have available and enjoying both body and instrument percussion drumming using recycled materials.
I wrote this poem as a reflection on the experience but also for possible use as a ‘song’ to accompany percussion in the future. With love, Sue Ellson🙂
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Photo is of a friend with items collected from a pile of hard rubbish in Surrey Hills Melbourne on 5 May 2014.
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