The Spirit of London

In The Lonely Moonlight

Stephanie Thomas

Innocent eyes wide
17, she left the countryside
Arriving and Surviving in the Big Smoke
First it swallows her up, then spits her out
Now she feels like a joke!!!!!

Tired and weary in a city of lost souls
The spirit gets twisted, torn and broke
chasing love and fruitless goals

Don’t want to come back
And do this all over again
At the end of this, her 12th cycle
Seeds before have sown this pain.

But the Doves fly high in the sky
Looking on, across the sea
Before this life ends, and she
Has to die
She’s hoping someday to be just
As free!!

• Admitting age (Newham General Hospital) - Ray Stebbing
  
• Any Spare Change - Christine Kugele
  
• Bombay Sapphire - Sophia Hewitt
  
• By Roding’s waters - Ray Stebbing
  
• The City in August - Ray Stebbing
  
• Doggerel In A Bus-Queue - Christine Kugele
  
• Early Evening, Manor Park - Ray Stebbing
  
• First Person Sinister - Robert Earnest
  
• Flight of Fancy - Ray Stebbing
  
• The Garden (Trinity Hospice, Clapham Common) - Ray Stebbing
  
• In a Pickle - Paul Chown
  
• In The Lonely Moonlight - Stephanie Thomas
  
• Join the Brethren - John Merriman

• Love Objects - Gerry Blick
  
• Lust and Intrigue (on the Bakerloo Line) - David Oldman
  
• Moving In Together - Andy Hudson
  
• Nightmare City - Henry D. Robertson
  
• October dawn, London - Ray Stebbing
  
• The Olympic Spirit - D. E. Edwards
  
• Open air concert - Kenwood - Ray Stebbing
  
• Our Lady of Clerkenwell - Domenica de Rosa
  
• Railings - Jo Huntly
  
• Rain Down - Erin E. Lippincott
  
• Sanctuary - Zarlasht Halaimzai
  
• Snapshot, Upton Park - Ray Stebbing
  
• The Spirit Of London - Zannie Volpe
  
• Urban spring - Isle of Dogs - Ray Stebbing