When Lyrics, When Film Give that Inner Inspiration

POETRY

When Lyrics, When Film Give that Inner Inspiration
to Reach into Our Innermost Being

Spontaneous ~ On the Moment’s Spur

Inspired by the Film and Soundtrack of The Children Act and which is available here on Spotify and composed on 28 August 2024.

The scene depicts a Circuit Judge on a train journey from London to Newcastle-upon-Tyne (the role of the judge is played by Dame Emma Thompson). A Judge is deemed to be on circuit when they travel to a jurisdiction within England that is outside the Capital, London.

This applies to England, and it is important to note that in Scotland we have a separate legal jurisdiction, where the structure is similar but the terms and titles are very different. The function of both jurisdictions is broadly the same.

These lines were inspired by the soundtrack in the film entitled Train Journey and composed by Stephen Warbeck.

I love this music.

I love this piano this gorgeous melody.

Memories floating.

Following free flow over chords,

Minor and Major and Minor again

And fluttering of flats and sharps

A Butterfly

Waves rippling.

Oh yes,

Memories.

The train racing through the countryside

First class,

Letters and papers, books and thoughts,

What days those were.

I love this music.

The melody connects me with my inner self.

I go where no one else can go.

I go where no one else has been.

I go alone.

There is peace in aloneness.

I love this music.

Racing through the countryside.

Thinking, pausing,

Those papers again.

Papers I should not read,

Papers, diagrams, drawings just for me.

Lines that prove that I am loved

in the way that I can never have.

Newcastle

Liverpool

Blackpool

Oxford

London

Luton

Folkestone

Dover

And the glorious County of Kent

of former days,

of Northumberland and Tyneside.

I love this music.

This Line racing through the countryside,

Intercity first class

Gentle rocking with the chords

The piano’s beauty bringing to me

All that has gone before me

Wonderful memories.

Always alone.

I love this music.

Echoes of the great composers.

The wonder…

Why are poems so beautiful?

I love this train.

I love the seclusion.

I love the peace and independence.

I love that which family and friends

have no ability to even grasp,

let alone comprehend.

Ian Bradley Marshall

4 November 2024
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©2024 Ian Bradley Marshall

With thanks to the BBC, to whom all rights are reserved in respect of the image used.
Composed 28 August 2024