Silent Road

When the sun is blazing

30 degrees slight breeze

Rolled windows elbow leaning

Ahead a lonely road to tease

The horizon is far and bleak

Ripples of a mirage float on tare 

30 kilometre stretch to peak

No-one in sight no man no car

Eyes wide open awake and alert

Keep going straight beyond the crest

No man is around though mammals lurk

Stay alive be safe take stops to rest

The silent road only hears the souls

Inside and outside are worlds apart

Music blaring watch the holes

Kids moaning sleeping crying starts

Distance from afar so deafening

Inner thoughts they ramble 

Memories of childhood resurfacing 

Memories made seem to scramble 

Wondering where nomads travelled 

Pondering life's interesting games

Intrigued by nature and industrial revelled 

The silent road listens and tames 

Conversations run dry and shake

The sun begins to fall 

We await for the night to break 

To again start the days journey crawl

- Meg Elizabeth

Sapphire

We've adventured to lands

Far and near

Cruised creeks and rivers 

Both murky and clear

Magnificent creatures 

Deadly and fossilized 

Magnificent colours 

Earth, water, skies

Sometimes we travelled roads

Of long long stretches 

We met all walks of life

From all sorts of distances 

From jumping crocs

To Aboriginal art sites

Too many hot springs

Radiant campfire nights

Head west of the Giant easel

And into the gem fields

Grab a bucket of wash, a sieve 

With water it will be revealed

As the mud and clay disappears

The sunlight catches the stones

All the wonderful, colours of the rainbow 

Some bright, some chrome

Sapphires are a glassy gem

The clearer the more divine

We managed to collect some specs

Some we kept that we could find

Thus sapphire is a small token

Of our Australian Outback drive

A reminder of our love

Until the next time we arrive... 

- Meg Elizabeth