Can You Tell?

• Cassandra Garner, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2013

Glass glints, steel shakes
Birds caw, traffic brakes

Tyres squeal, voices yell
This is Melbourne, can you tell?

The noises of my city
Loud, clashing, melodious and busy

So individual, made of noises
The sounds so different, a cacophony of voices

Voices of buskers, shoppers and workers
Sounds of traffic trams and cooking burgers

Cafès chat, parks can laugh
No other city is like this, not by half

Glass glints, steel shakes
Birds caw, traffic brakes

Tyres squeal, voices yell
This is Melbourne, can you tell?