Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Happy Belated Birthday Walt Whitman

    Belated birthdays suck. They’re usually a way of showing that you care about somebody, just not enough to remember their birthday. As one of the multitudes whose lives have been changed over the last 195 years by Walt Whitman I want to wish it anyway. I can tell you from personal experience that poetry is… Read more

  • Thank You – Mike’s Musical Monday

    I wrote this song last week. Gratitude isn’t something you shouldn’t keep to yourself. So, thank you. For the time you made me smileWhen you were crying all the whileFor the time you helped me seeThat other man who I could be I want to thank youI want to thank you For the time you… Read more

  • All You Need Is Love

    https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/QGp6DZpDNbo&source=uds Paul McCartney is joined here by Queen, Brian Wilson, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Tony Bennett, Ozzy Osbourne, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bruce Hornsby, and a full orchestra to perform All You Need Is Love. This version also interpolates She Loves You and the British national anthem (replacing the French national anthem from the original). The lyrics… Read more

  • Road Rage – Flash Fiction Friday

    My flash fiction piece Road Rage was published this week in the Driftless Review, Issue 3. Read more

  • Miserere

    They don’t write ’em like this anymore. Probably for good reason, but that doesn’t take anything away from the genius behind this piece of music from the 1630s. It was written for a four-person choir and a five-person choir to sing together. At one time it was an offense punishable by excommunication to transcribe it… Read more

  • Memorial Day – In Flanders Fields

    John McCrae This Memorial Day I’d like to share a poem written in remembrance of a fallen soldier. John McCrae was a Canadian doctor who also fancied himself a bit of a poet. On May 3, 1915 the 42 year old presided over the funeral of a friend who had died at the Second Battle… Read more