Poem by Ma Yongbo
Translation: Helen Pletts
Lyrics and Music: Dan Leighton
just be here 你存在着就好 by Ma Yongbo 马永波 English Translation by Ma Yongbo 马永波 and Helen Pletts 海伦·普莱茨 2024
Bio
Dan Leighton is a poet, lyricist and musician. He is an engaging performer and exceptional poetry reader who loves to communicate with his audiences with humour and compassion. He writes regularly on themes of redemption, loss, longing and incompleteness. He also has a fine line in comic poetry and song and can be persuaded to read or sing them occasionally. His poetry is deceptively simple, often with multiple conflicting meanings and layered with intense rhythmic patterns honed close to the intent of the poem. He loves a good romcom, is obsessed with k-dramas, makes cheese and sews clothes.
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