Words & Music

by Mike Power

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  • Snowfall

    The day after Thanksgiving I had a little to smoke and sat down at the piano to fiddle about. This song came out. In the instinctive way that mothers look out for their children, it wasn’t long before the mother of us all, nature, provided a nice visual backdrop to the piece. I might develop… Read more

  • Veggie

    Today marks my 43rd anniversary as a vegetarian. Turkey Day was the perfect day to reject an idea that had literally been spoon-fed to me but had worn out its welcome in my conscience: it is OK (delicious even) to kill animals. My nickname in college was “Veggie” because there were so few of us… Read more

  • New York’s Best Emerging Poets 2019

    Happy to have my poem “Drawing” included along with so many other great writers from the Empire State in New York’s Best Emerging Poets 2019 Anthology. For the poetry lovers on your holiday shopping list you can pick up a copy from the good people at Z Publishing. Read more

  • Bloggiversary 2019

    If my little blog was human she would be in the first grade now. They grow up so fast. Bob Dylan said, “he not busy being born is busy dying,” but my experience of life is a little different. I think we start dying at the moment of conception and even as we draw our… Read more

  • Disappear

    If you want me to disappear… If you want me to dry your tears I will do that for you If you want me to disappear I will do that too If you wanted to fly I would tell you to try I would give you my wings And give gravity the day off If… Read more

  • It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Part 2

    The least interesting man in the world: I don’t always write poetry, but when I do I am usually inspired by impressions and feelings, rather than incidents. I let my mind go soft in the face of overwhelming forces like love or nature, then search for words to capture the resultant swirling phantoms. There is… Read more