Outside Ayers Rock.... Poem by Sylvia Frances Chan

Foreword:
Having read Inside Ayers Rock by Les Murray as Modern Poem Of The Day in Poem Hunter, I describe it from the outside in my own way in:
OUTSIDE AYERS ROCK. Been there a few times, also in the cities such as Sydney, Perth, Cairns in the Rain Forest and the coral areas.


Australia
one of the first things
that comes to my mind's surface
Uluru or Ayers Rock.

This is that big red stone
who suddenly pops up out of from the desert.

Uluru is the world's largest monolith.
It protrudes 348 meters above the ground,
a scientist told me that two-thirds of them are underground.

The circumference is about 9 kilometers.
WOW! What a stone, so beautiful enormously
and alone
all alone the red stone

That is why every year some 400,000 people
come to "the heart of Australia",
you can do it too if you take time,
do not miss it!

The separate thing is Uluru
that the color seems to change
when the sun goes down,
the glow becomes redder,
the reddest point just before the sun goes down.

The reverse happens when the sun rises.
If you are there,
it's definitely worth it
to get up early
to see the sunrise.

Although it is not really that way
that you can sit there quietly
like a lonely cowboy (or cowgirl)
enjoying the sunrise,

there are hundreds of other tourists
with cameras, who have come with buses
at the same time.

If you hear the name Australia
is certainly one of the first things
who stand up: Uluru, or Ayers Rock.

That is that big red stone
who suddenly pops up out from the desert.

Apart from looking at a distance,
you can also see the Rock from closer.

Many people want to see
"the heart of Australia".
I guarantee you, make time,
do not miss it,
Uluru never disappoints.

I value myself as one of the few lucky ones
who may climb Ayers Rock
863 meters high above the altitude
on my high heels since
I have not brought sports shoes with me.

Alice Spring has welcomed me
similarly Kings Canyons

the people who have greeted me
are polite in a natural way
they are raised by white educators

a long time ago these young adults
were kidnapped by the Australian government
and grew to adulthood in estranged houses
far from their beloved parents
after they have passed the university
they are the ones who are put in this tourist branch,
to tell with pride to the outside world
their cultural history.

The subject of Didgeridoo
still has my attention
told in a story with decor full of splendor,

the hotels, hospitality, and food,
the management, the receptionists are good,

Australia has introduced
the best Top specialists,
their speech is absolutely excellent,
hats off for their actée de presence
to promote Australia....

Australia, I get the creeps again!
The ultimate Australian feeling!


Photography: by Sylvia Frances Chan. This is a Magnet piece I have got after having climbed Ayers Rock.

©Sylvia Frances Chan

The Third Week of Advent
Monday the 17th of December 2018
@ 8.50hrs. A.M. Nederland Time