Looking at retirement and the final stages of my active life. What can I get into now that I am literally being paid to do nothing?
Hobbies? Volunteer? Travel?
MIDIMike
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What is it? MSK 2020
Posted: August 26, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
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The Give And Take © MSK 8/20/2025
Posted: August 22, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, PoetryTags: #giveandtake, #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #musician, #original songs, #personal, #personal relationship, #poem, #poetry, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
It’s like The Give And Take of breathing:
We need to do it all of the time.
You don’t have to look for hidden meanings:
Not every poem ends in a rhyme.
Some like coffee, but I prefer tea;
A glass of cool, clean water.
Want a drink, they have Coke or Pepsi.
That’s something I can’t give my daughter.
It’s The Give And Take of everything
That puts the pendulum to swing.
The Give And Take of everything
As each winter turns into spring.
The sun beats down on us all day long;
The moon enjoys hiding from its light.
Sometimes we want to join in on the song;
But screaming all at once isn’t right.
The way I hold you, how you hold me.
Give you all I have, you are all I need.
Never take advantage, help each other be free.
Creating our garden, planting new seed.
MIDIMike
What motivates you?
Avoiding pain is a good one for me.
What I Do At Night MSK 1986
Posted: August 19, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Looking at retirement and the final stages of my active life. What can I get into now that I am literally being paid to do nothing?
Hobbies? Volunteer? Travel?
MIDIMike
What Can I Do? MSK 2011
Posted: August 12, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Looking at retirement and the final stages of my active life. What can I get into now that I am literally being paid to do nothing?
Hobbies? Volunteer? Travel?
MIDIMike
We’re Doing Fine MSK 2021
Posted: August 5, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Covid pandemic and the holidays in mind here. The verses are about most people dealing with the challenges they faced. The chorus is from a fictitious wealthy person’s point of view: who cares as long as it’s not me?
If the rest of the world weren’t so stupid and lazy they would be doing fine too.
MIDIMike
We Could Have Had It All MSK 2018
Posted: July 29, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Think of being part of a team with a goal. Plans are made and big steps taken, with all the resources in place, the game begins.
Only to find your team mate is not helping or doing their part. Everything crumbles into a slowly cascading tragedy. The fact that you love what you were aiming for confirms what the pain is telling you.
You could have had it all.
MIDIMike
Watching the Clock MSK 2016
Posted: July 22, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Do you dedicate your life to achieving success and fortune or stop and smell the roses? Are you accumulating money and wealth while losing friends and everything else in the world? You can be anything if nothing else matters.
MIDIMike
The foods I would like to make
Posted: July 18, 2025 in My TunesTags: dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2003
What foods would you like to make?
I would like to make foods based on needs of human populations. For example, zoos have special diets for animals in their care. What we need is something like ‘puppy chow’ for humans.
This would be a food to give away to those in need. Something that might be enough to keep hikers, astronauts and the poorest of us all healthy.
Was It Worth It? MSK
Posted: July 15, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Do you dedicate your life to achieving success and fortune or stop and smell the roses? Are you accumulating money and wealth while losing friends and everything else in the world? You can be anything if nothing else matters.
MIDIMike
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