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
Posts Tagged ‘#poetrypod’
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
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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
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
Waiting MSK 2016
Posted: July 8, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
I often wonder what society is waiting for. When will we finally be equal? When will we finally do something about the environment, education, resources allocation and discrimination?
I can’t keep waiting without saying what needs to be said to everyone.
You can wait. You can hope. You can pray.
But now is the time to scream out loud.
MIDIMike
Upside Down MSK 2014
Posted: July 1, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
A response to a bumper sticker that mocks good students I used to see (like – my son can beat up your honor student…) I thought of each religion pitting their god against the others like high school sports. Unfortunately, we have faith and god turned Upside Down, but at least my god is better than yours.
MIDIMike
Unchanging Moon MSK 1982
Posted: June 24, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Another early poem turned into song that I thought was my best work. On the brink of ending a loving relationship, knowing tomorrow would begin a fight without end…… Impossible to understand while it is happening, and too painful to see the end.
You can wish upon a star or pray to the moon, but nothing will ever change and the moon just stares back at you. Uncaring. Unchanging.
MIDIMike
Simple Things MSK 2021
Posted: June 17, 2025 in #poetry, My Tunes, Poetry, Poetry PODTags: #lyrics, #michaelskennedy, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #personal, #podcasts, #poem, #poet, #poeticadvice, #poetry, #poetrypod, #singersongwriter, #songwriter
Another tangled tale of experiences. No matter how strong you are, how vigilant you are, there will be a time where you will not be ready; not aware. You can be right a million times – but the odds then become a million-to-one. And you lose.
But when we fail, we get lost inside our own fear and doubt. The things you count on every day to get you through to the next are no longer there. Simple Things.
MIDIMike
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