When I Lost You

I listened to nothing but old blues records for months.
BB's badly broken heart blues records; the type of tunes
You play when your beat down life lies in ruins.

I remember hard nights spent listening to Hooker's hoarse complaints.
And whole days spent in suspense; waiting on that call
From you that never came, about being wrong and all.

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Biography

I was born on the 12th of October 1984 to two
loving parents, Patrick and Siobhain, and I'm currently residing and occasionally studying in Palmerstown, Dublin. Since a young age the potency and power of words have attracted me and I feel (as I imagine most poets do), a sense of joyous empowerment when
writing. For me the ability to communicate an idea through the medium of poetry is a gift I am proud to possess.

I guess for me a good poem strives to engage the reader, and I have tried my best to integrate this belief into my own work. Finally if I were to offer an objective self-assessment of my own poetry to date I would say that it examines the emotional and spiritual fallout upon the individual in this an age of uncertainty, a subject matter I find to be both valid and piquant.