Jewel Ocean- Poet

22/01/2026

Powerful, vulnerable offerings from Wei Wei Lo and Bunbury Poets Collective today at Mirriam's workshop 💝 Thanks, BREC for the venue and Karen Louise for organising 🙏

30/12/2025

Last month I had the pleasure of participating in the Wavelengths exhibition at Painted Tree Gallery for Southern Forest Arts 🎨 It was delightful to see so many of my fellow poets' words on the gallery walls, and to meet the artists who's works inspired us. My photos don't do any of them justice 😅 Poets, if you see your work, I hope you'll comment on the photo with a transcription of your poem ☺️
Special shout out to Tracy Leigh Photography who's artwork mesmerised me so heartily, I had to bring it home with me 🥰 Tracy, I haven't forgotten I owe you a poem 🌈

25/11/2025

A beautiful afternoon spent sharing art & words with other creatives. It was an honour to respond to Ben & Marnie's work and to take Tracy's piece 'Visible Light Country' home with me ✨️🌈

03/11/2025

Southern Forest Arts asked myself, Karen Louise, Kym Dee (hot off the plane from Sydney after placing 3rd in the Australian Poetry Slam finals) and others from Bunbury Poets Collective to respond to the visual arts pieces in the exhibition. If you're down south between now & November 23rd, pop in & check it out 🎨✒️

-🌊 Wavelengths | Painted Tree Gallery

Wavelengths invites you to explore how energy, emotion and creative expression shape our world.
Through photography, drawing, painting and mixed media, this exhibition reflects the ways art connects us to our inner and outer experiences.

Featuring works by 19 artists with disability and diverse access needs, with poetic responses from leading South West poets.

📍 Painted Tree Gallery
🗓️ 25 Oct – 23 Nov 2025
🕘 Open daily, 9am–3pm

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🎉 Closing Party
📅 Sun 23 Nov | ⏰ 12–2pm
🎭 Poetry recitals + dance by Candance Dance Studio Bunbury
🥗 Light lunch provided | 👋 All welcome
🔗 RSVP: https://events.humanitix.com/wavelength-closing-party

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Poster background photograph by Ally J Croston, one of the exhibiting artists in Wavelengths.

19/05/2025

It's always fun to watch the chaos unfold on stage at Write it. Act it. ✨️

This year we have OVER THIRTY participants! Some on the stage, some wielding their pens, everyone doing their bit to bring you a completely random show in just 24 hours. See someone you know? Better get your $10 audience tickets to see what they come up with!
Others who are joining us on stage or on the page:
Millie - Jacqueline - Abby - Karrak - Laurae - Meg - Casper - Kate - Mikki - Evan - Clare - Carina - Ron - Charise - Jaxon - Melanie - Ros - Rob - Barry - Deanna - Apikara - Pam - Ashlee - Damien - Maria-Grace... and as always Jewel & Kym ✨
What a line up! Get your tickets at: www.trybooking.com/CZWQG

01/05/2025

Tomorrow night at Hello Duck Bunbury 🦆
Catch me, Kym Dee, Karen Louise, a bunch of Bunbury Poets Collective and other great local writers & performers. It's an open mic so you could even get into it yourself!

ON THIS FRIDAY at Hello Duck Café!

Here is your friendly reminder Bun-Geo that this coming Friday, 2nd May is the Shore Lines Writing for Performance Festival Open Mic event.

Judging from the list of confirmed performers, it promises to be another great night.

Hurry to secure your spot on the stage and/or book your tickets asap to ensure your place in the audience.

You can expect the usual format, same - and new - faces, same hosts (Bianca and Matt) and at a brand new venue!

Tickets are only $5 and available at www.trybooking.com/DAHOB

For more information or to register your interest please contact Janice Mason on 0437 654 147 or email [email protected]

See you at Hello Duck Café, 47 Stephen Street (opposite the Bunbury Museum) this Friday.

01/05/2025

There's some feisty geckos under my fig tree.
I watch them in the morning sun.
Darting at each other, spinning away, leaping into the grass from half way up the fig tree's trunk.
I think they are a metaphor.
And I sip my tea some more.

"Geckos" -Jewel Ocean

01/05/2025

At poetry club, a feast of culture set before us. Everyone shares.

I hold back with the intentionality of a hard-earned sense of self-preservation, watching and listening.

You stand alone, sliced open by a fellow poet. Your edges crumble.

I long to reach out and caress your creamy skin, not to put you back together but to make sense and use and joy from your sacrifice.

Your body is hard, perfectly aged. My appetite is whet.

I could run my tongue out and touch it to your flesh, my dopamine receptors ache for the opioid rush of your casomorphins.

Just a crumb, the tiniest fragment of your perfection. No-one else notices.

I finger you into my mouth and close my eyes as the delicious poetry of flavours drowns out the poetry of poetry.

My throat aches, already swelling. The sinuses will go next.

I curse my dairy allergy again.

"Doing it on the cheeseboard" -Jewel Ocean