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
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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
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
No Thing
Posted: July 5, 2025 in My TunesTags: #electronicinstrumental, #korgnautilus, #localbands, #michaelskennedy, #MIDI keyboard, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #musicvideo, #original songs, #original video, #personal, #songwriter, #syncopps, #synthesizer
I have an instrumental piece to share. More of a soundscape than a song. For fun, I also made a short YouTube video to play. Headphones help.
More coming soon!
MIDIMike
No Thing
Posted: July 4, 2025 in My TunesTags: #electronicmusic, #gold8, #keyboardplayers, #korgnautilus, #michaelskennedy, #Midi, #MIDI keyboard, #midicontroller, #midimike, #midimike.com, #music, #musician, #songwriter, #Soundengineer, #soundtrack, #studio, #studioengineer, #StudioOne+, #tannoy
I thought I would share this little piece with you. I am just experimenting with new sounds to see what I come up with. There is no real structure or drum tracks to speak of. Just a bunch of cool textures and visions of other worlds. Or, maybe it is this one in the future?
MIDIMike
How do you express your gratitude?
Every day!
MidiMike 