Songline Imagery draws from Indigenous Australian cosmology, where songlines are ancestral pathways across the land encoded in song, story, and ritual that map geography, law, and identity; in poetry, this imagery evokes a non-Western epistemology in which landscape, memory, and language are inseparable, and poetic lines become mnemonic routes that connect place, spirit, and community, as seen in the works of Aboriginal poets like Oodgeroo Noonuccal or settler poets who ethically engage with this concept to challenge colonial spatial narratives and affirm Indigenous sovereignty through lyrical cartography.

Aboriginal Australian songlines as poetic structure or metaphor. Indigenous tradition mapping landscape through narrative. Study with place-based and topographic verse.