On The Road with Vicky Lamburn

In those hidden twisting Westways of your mind
Under the arches of your pure and shadowed passions
Are the calculated and optimised rational desires
Where lay the the fires of the lovers you’ve left behind

Grey clouds to oppress and depress tired city eyes
Locked in mindscapes peering out over the balustrade
And nothing over there is what you want to see
Nothing over there springs with youth’s verdant dreams

Your eyes write a song — a poem of your time past
Muddied by a sodium glare in a wet November night
Never sure whether you have won or have lost in your blues
All that is sure is a paean of loss you have tried to hide

In the sinister glare of red light and steaming fumes
It is never clear when you will ever get going
When that light will be green and you will be free
Trapped in a shadowed mania of concrete thunder

Bird trapped in the net flapping for its freedom right
Trying to dilute your emotions in your saline wells
But you can’t fake that love you once had and lost
You are dissolved and beaten behind destiny’s wheel

Inertia creeps all over and you wonder when passion left
Are you smothered or smoldering in this urban insanity?
When are you going to break from your hidden byways
And for love step off this recursion before you’re driven insane.

I am hoping to sit down at my computer and write about London today but I also have 90 other things I need to really also do so my apologies if I don’t get a chance to… Here are a few photos from Stephanie Dosen’s gig however that was at the Bush Hall in Shepherd’s Bush on Monday 28th February. (Today is a week ago since I went to London, gone so quickly!)

I will be uploading more but these were on the end of a roll of Delta 3200 and the next lot were snagged on Tri-X… Click on them to jump to Flickr and enlargements of them

Well I’m back and I had a fantastic time. I’m pretty worn out but on looking at it, I walked about ten miles on Sunday around Central London and fifteen yesterday, which was actually really quite exhausting but fantastic all the same. I’m going to write about it in much greater detail this evening as there was so much that I saw and even though I probably only live fifty miles from London it’s quite a contrast.

I’ve taken about 200 photos mostly black and white, street scenes, landscapes and so forth but it was pretty exciting all the same. In all the photos are of contrasts, from Westway, Trellick Tower, Westway and Battersea, to street cleaners and market traders, Houses of Parliament, bicycles, London Underground, Big Ben, Kensington Palace, coffee shop patrons and photos from the gig with Stephanie Dosen who was, can I say – OUTSTANDING.

to be continued…

Me at Google London, Smooth

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