I am an Irish artist and i’ve been living and working in Hangzhou China as a university English teacher for the past two years.
I have been writing various forms of poems, songs and ramblings for many years.
Many of these writings are musical, but some have been extended into more complicated thoughts.
I’m not such a hugely read poetry blood hound.
Many of my influences are songwriters and of course there are a few old poets which i was force-fed in school.
It’s been so long / Since I heard from you / Give me time / Give me patience We’re on the same / Wavelength / I feel the sounds / O the colours A landscape / With nothing to hide / But cr…
Remove your coat / Let down your hair / Step in out of the rain Dry your boots / And scrub your skin / I sense your trembling Standing heavy / In a puddle of mud / I’ll whisk you far from here…
I try to find directions / But arrows keep pointing back / O the road’s at an end / So I turn and pretend / I’m not lost / Lost Circles vicious circles / They tie me up in knots / Then I wonder…
Unwind like a Buddhist / A parrot that swings in a cage / Unwind like a Buddhist / The kind that you can’t enrage.
Hey hey toy train / I’m a little scared / Hair not where it’s supposed to be / It’s coming out my nose
I’ve been soured by devotion / I’m poisoned by your motions / I try to find a light to / Bring me closer to these visions of you the distance to the sound of your voice