A countryside so bleakYet so amazing and beautifulA dacha by the side of a creekLooks like a set in a musical Roads that go for thousands of milesPassing abandoned fields and magnificent forestsTravelling in Russia…
Category: Russia
All Alone
A Christmas to rememberStuck in Sheremetyevo AirportOn the 25th DecemberAnd a bloody awful food court An airport so quietFeeling all aloneI would have loved a riotBut all I could was sit and groan At long…
Nevsky Prospect
A boulevard of wonder and styleIn the centre of a city of splendourA street that will make you smileBut beware the ice cream vendor Art and culture radiatesInto the adjoining thoroughfaresIt’s an area that always…
Russia
A country that holds my soulSo many memories of snow and coldSadly now a country out of controlLead by a man who is mad not bold So many meals with cigarettes and vodkaWith people who…
The Day I Left
Tanks at the Moscow White House4th October nineteen ninety-threeSo many people hurt or in a jailhouseAnd all shown on TV That day I left and never returnedTo a land that owns my soulBut my bridges…
Moscow in Winter
Troikas and snowMoskva covered in iceThe lights of St Basil’s glowMoscow in Winter hold you in a vice The Arbat market draws you inSouvenirs, bust of leaders long goneMoscow in Winter gets under your skinIt’s…
The Neva
The Neva calls my name dailyIts water flows in my soulMissing it drives me crazyAnd leaving it behind took a toll Warm and welcoming in the SummerCold and frozen in WinterIt is a river of…