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Poems: Sparrows
Final art by David Elliot for 'Flying Home' written by Elaine Lindsay. This poem appeared in 100 NZ Poems for Children edited by Jo Noble
Towards sunset
they gather by the hundred
until the old elm
brims with birds
fluttering like leaves.
Such twitterings
you’ve never heard.
Then, strangely,
as if the leader called
‘Get ready now,’
All is still…
Suddenly they’re off!
Dark streamers
in the rosy sky.