Below you will find a poem I wrote about seeing the world as an artist and how our recent tour called the “Shine ON Tour”
through Europe inspired me to be a better person and artist all around. Enjoy.
To see the world though artists eyes
is something more than a surprise
doors shut and open just like that
to trains, cars, and houses to boot
these things we see are complex in
beauty and so fragil too, I wish I
was standing back in Paris where the
Seine flows fast and the wine is this full in
my glass or the painters glide there brush
so smooth, to be in Rome again and feel
the pulse to sing to crowds so hip you
would have sworn they walked out of
Urban Outfitters, tasting tradition lingers
in my mouth, hands press the dough and
fires roar to make passion come to life
Smiles, waves, eyes, days there is a romantic
candle lit in that small room to shine and shine
for me and you. Songs float about and bring up
the mood comparable to the feeling you get when you
jump off the peer into a salty wave down and up
like fish dip until they reach the surface Scratching
on this idea so big and vast now I understand why
I need a compass. Yet to see the world through
artists eyes is something so wonderful. Humble
seeking, adventure, speaking, round and round
we float to find what is beyond the next tree or sign.
Beyond that bridge over, that hill, the flowers I see
red poppies, green grass, and buildings dripping with
beauty to fill you up and overflow upon the ground. To
be an artist is to spill out onto the ground like the beauty
around. We are to be light, beauty, bright, just like what
fills us up we are to spill over into the abyss and give and
give to offer something many people might miss.
SHINE ON 