The waves roll in, cunning waves 

and hungry;

the stone stacks wonder when 

they too will fall.

Headlands brace themselves 

against the wild tide,       

and, in time, the ocean 

will devour the shore.

Teacher’s note: The Twelve Apostles are limestone stacks off the shore near Port Campbell, Victoria.  The harsh waves from the Southern Ocean slowly erode the soft limestone in the cliffs to form caves, which later become arches that eventually collapse leaving up to fifty-metre high stacks.