Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Broken Angel

    “Either I’m too sensitive or else I’m getting soft.” – Bob Dylan One of the great themes of classical poetry is the damsel in distress. Any kind of suffering is bad enough but contemplating the suffering of someone dear to your heart is almost unbearable. Even more so when you’re unable to do anything to… Read more

  • Images of a Lunar Eclipse

    An astrophysicist friend of mine (don’t you love sentences that start like that?) told me on Tuesday night that there would be a lunar eclipse on Wednesday morning. She wasn’t kidding. I wound up waking up naturally a little before the event and you wouldn’t know it by the photo but the moon was large… Read more

  • The Mistress of Disguises

    Two years ago I wrote a play called Digging Up John Barrymore. At one point I considered a musical version and wrote a few songs for it. This one is called The Mistress of Disguise and here’s the relevant passage from the play (Barrymore’s deathbed scene) that leads into the song: Steve Izant and Julia… Read more

  • Images from a Medieval Festival

    Last Sunday, in Manhattan’s Fort Tryon Park, about 60,000 people gathered from the 30th Annual Medieval Festival. If you’ve never been and it looks like something you’d enjoy, you should check it out next year. It’s always held at the beginning of Autumn and it always starts with a parade. The parade doesn’t always have… Read more

  • Julia

    In 2012, I met a woman named Julia and was inspired to learn this song. Julia’s a common enough name but one that I hadn’t come across much in my life. Earlier in 2012 my first full-length stage play Digging Up John Barrymore, was produced by the good people at Dreamcatcher Entertainment. The name I… Read more

  • Let It Down

    George Harrison’s son Dhani (and friends) with a killer version of George’s “Let It Down” from All Things Must Pass on Conan O’Brien’s show last night.   https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/n8m7oYvY90Q&source=uds Though you sit in another chair, I can feel you hereLooking like I don’t care, but I do, I doHiding it all behind anything I seeShould someone… Read more