Summer’s door opens

with the sun.

Tūī creak it to
and fro – hinged, cracked –
their calls sound
from wires slung
along the street, where
skateboards drop percussive
noise on asphalt
as the day livens, warms
with cicada talk
and traffic, blare of horns
and mowers lowering lawns;
their commentary
carries, insistent
under all.

Jenny Bornholdt

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Summer Sounds Summer’s door opens
with the sun.
by Jenny Bornholdt Tūī creak it to
and fro – hinged, cracked –
their calls sound
from wires slung
along the street, where
skateboards drop percussive
noise on asphalt
as the day livens, warms
with cicada talk
and traffic, blare of horns

Text copyright © Crown 2019 and mowers lowering lawns;

their commentary
carries, insistent
under all.

Illustration by Dean Proudfoot copyright © Crown 2019 Jenny Bornholdt

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ISBN 978 1 77669 851 6 (online)

ISSN 2624 3636 (online) SCHOOL JOURNAL LEVEL 3 NOVEMBER 2019
Publishing Services: Lift ducation E Tū
Editor: Susan Paris
Designer: Liz Tui Morris
Curriculum learning area English
Literacy Consultant: Melanie Winthrop
Consulting Editors: Hōne Apanui and Emeli Sione
Reading year level Year 6

Keywords alliteration, assonance, figurative language,

imagery, metaphor, poetry, sound, summer