Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Plague Diary – Day 1

    Day 1 – Total confirmed cases in US 3,774 I won’t be going to work today, or any day soon as far as I can tell. Unsanitary conditions, in one market, in one town in China, has shut down life across the world. It’s like waiting for an earthquake, only instead of being buried alive… Read more

  • Touching Eternity

    Thirty-nine years ago on this date – it was a Monday, like this one – I found a new kind of love. It wasn’t like any of the kinds of love I’d know to that point but it felt like it included all of them. It transcended each of them and brought them back to… Read more

  • Devotion

    I would like to take a minute to thank my past self for all the hard work he put in to getting me where I am today. I don’t know if I could do such work now but I’m glad I did it when I was able. Devotion, especially, is a trait young people are… Read more

  • Music

    Every instrument is another language You use the same notes to say the same things but it Sounds different in every tongue Every key is another love You touch the same places to show the same feelings But each smile it inspires is unique Read more

  • Any story

    Give me all the love you feel comfortable giving A teardrop full is more than enough Tell me any story that crosses your mind And when I hear it, I’ll make it mine Read more

  • Story

    The name of this poem, written by Iku Takenaka (1904-1982), is Story: Quietly the cloud cast its shadow, Passing over avenues of trees, over ponds, over fields. Enduring both joy and sadness, the cloud silently drifted on… Then, above the sound of a single flute, the cloud stopped, Seeking the one who played: but there… Read more