Archive for the ‘#poetry’ Category

Talking to a coworker laying down tracks,
Says he doesn’t need all of them facts.
He started yelling, then looked at me and spat
When he couldn’t convince me the world was flat.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool would still say that.

During mass I overheard someone at church:
‘Mankind was placed on the highest perch.
The Earth is no more than a few thousand years old
Evolution is all garbage so I’ve been told’.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool could believe that.
It’s something ‘Only A Fool’ says these days.   
But they keep reading it in that book.
If you want to know where the fool is
Give it another look.

The sun races across the sky every day.
Hard to view it any other way.
So easy to believe you are the center.
Hard to leave it behind once you enter.

Only A Fool
Only A Fool would repeat that

The first time I heard it, it caught my breath;
If your wife commits adultery, stone her to death.
Want to hear what I believe to be truth?
Faith is believing in fairy tales without any proof.

It’s something ‘Only A Fool’ says these days.   
But they keep reading it in that book.
If you want to know where the fool is
Give it another look.

MIDIMike

The first time I heard it, it caught my breath;

If your wife commits adultery, stone her to death.

Want to hear what I believe to be truth?

Faith is believing in fairy tales without any proof.

MIDIMike

The sun races across the sky every day.

Hard to view it any other way.

So easy to believe you are the center.

Hard to leave it behind once you enter.

MIDIMike

During mass I overheard someone at church:

‘Mankind was placed on the highest perch.

The Earth is no more than a few thousand years old

Evolution is all garbage so I’ve been told’.

MIDIMike

Talking to a coworker laying down tracks,

Says he doesn’t need all of them facts.

He started yelling, then looked at me and spat

When he couldn’t convince me the world was flat.

MIDIMike

Lots of things happened in 1981 evidently.  Another song from that time and this one is based on a romanticized minor traffic accident of all things.  I really did run into the car in front of me on the Arlington Heights exit, but there was no attractive woman in sight!  ACD stood for Assured Clear Distance back then.

MIDIMike

Another song where I refer to my personal musical giants and creative genius.  I have always appreciated female vocalists and their style since I first heard Billie Holiday singing on the radio when I was a kid. 

She is among many female artists that have shaped my musical world.  Bjork is another artist I have more than respect for over the decades.  This song is a ‘thanks’ to all of them.

These women might be beautiful, but that is not my attraction to their music.  From The First Time I heard them sing, I was already ‘in love’.

MIDIMike

Waking up and trying to remember a dream I was having gave me inspiration for this song.  Trying to capture the moments transitioning from dream state to awake.  Things blend and merge so quickly.  But maybe this dream is not the dream.

MIDIMike

Personal relationships can be compared to icebergs floating in the ocean quite easily.  When you travel so far that nothing looks familiar, you have really lost your way.

One thing for sure; you risk your life getting too close to the iceberg, and you never want to see what is at the bottom.  What’s underneath will sink all your hopes forever.

MIDIMike

Given Paradise
Everything you could dream of and more
The depths of oceans
Black holes and galaxies to explore.
Wonders of nature
And to finally know about quantum states.
All the time in the world
For a trillion minds to love and create.

Money in the bank
A college degree or two plastered on his wall.
Didn’t take that much
Before we were watching Humpty Dumpty fall.
Facing gravity
All that time holding the smoking gun
Late to realize
How quickly he was counting back to one.

You found your soul mate
Through years of pain and bad advice.
Manipulation,
From people that just don’t want to ‘play nice’….
Now your wedding date
Written in song and stone for all to see.
Becomes nothing more
Than another failed search for a bride to be.

How many people does it take
to really fuck things up?
To ruin a good party
or blow things apart?
How many does it take
For things to come undone?
Turns out, not that many.
It Only Takes One.

With a perfect plan
Everybody’s ready and willing to go.
The execution
Left a lot to be desired don’t you know?
No competition
No enemy trying to destroy what you made.
Reaching for the sun
Your only shot you just threw away.

How many people does it take to fuck things up?
To ruin a good party or blow things apart?
How many does it take for things to come undone?
Turns out, not many. It Only Takes One.

Given Paradise
Everything you could dream of and more.
The depths of oceans
Black holes and galaxies to explore.
Wonders of nature
And to finally know about quantum states.
All the time in the world
For a trillion minds to love and create.

It Only Takes One

                                                       It Only Takes One