Words & Music by Mike Power

Tag: sketch

  • other than love

    Everything other than love is illusion and delusion distraction and destruction a waste of time and degrees of separation and digression from consummation and veils of obstruction and excuses for confusion and medicine for diseases that we haven’t invented yet

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  • Behind the long stare

    When I was young Hands pulled at my skirt. Now children and grandchildren Tug at my hands Seventh Century Japanese rice-planting song

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  • Drawing

    I thought I might do a drawing today and maybe you would pose for me You don’t need to reveal anything that makes you feel uncomfortable I can see all that I need in the skin under your eyes and the positions of your fingers and the width and length of your lips Instead a […]

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  • It is hard to quantify beauty

    Beauty is hard to quantify I wouldn’t want to if I could It would take away all the joy and mystery and grace and other things not found in words or numbers

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  • We never will be done…

    Every leaf on every branch of every tree in the forest dances to a different tune Every star that twinkles with a million-year-old light looks all the way into you Every bit of foam on every wave in every sea likes to know that you are here And every moment of a lifetime in eternity […]

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