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598 · Mar 2017
Angel Speak
Michael Murphy Mar 2017
Angel speaks...

Sleep to wake, wake to sleep,

day to night, night to day,

life to death, death to life,

Nothing ends, nothing begins,

only cycles through again and again,

love is the road on which all things travel
a lucid dream
589 · Nov 2023
Fleeting
Michael Murphy Nov 2023
I'm  living on a Bubble

Floating, flying free

Each wind I change direction

High above the sea

Colors burst around me

Just  rainbows you'll agree

Loving my existence

Fleeting

as it may be
The older I get the faster time flies. Trying to pack in as much happiness as I can
584 · Dec 2015
Fertile Ground
Michael Murphy Dec 2015
Oh, the fertile mind of a child, plant a thought and watch it grow wild

So much to explore, and they always want more, with such vigor, which leaves me beguiled

Tend it well, give it light, plant good seeds, keep it bright,
most of all keep it safe from the prey

Using love as the feed, it is all that you need to keep it warm at the end of the day!
578 · Jul 2016
Morbid Fascination
Michael Murphy Jul 2016
What's your morbid fascination to know the details of the ****

You'll stop and watch an accident
From which there's no escape

It's not your entertainment
In fact it's someone's life

It could be your brother, sister,
It could be your wife

So stop and think before you gawk
Is there a need for me to see

Unless your knowing helps those involved
I suggest you leave it be
This won't be popular, but I watched a clip of Elizabeth Smart explaining why she finally gave into the publics demand to know the horrific details of her kidnapping. We also had a dinner debate about watching a traffic accident.  I think we can't call ourselves civilized until we grow beyond being entertained by such things.  I stopped watching the news and started to focus on trying to be a positive force.  I would love to hear comments both pro and con.
574 · Dec 2015
Last Kiss
Michael Murphy Dec 2015
I know that we're done, you said that we're through
There's just one little thing that I need to do

When we're all alone, and the moment's just right
Then I'll make double sure that there's no one in sight

I'll look to the left, and I'll look to the right
Before I reach out, to pull you in tight

I'll carress your face, with a hand on each side
Waiting to kiss you, my time I will bide

Remember this moment as the last we will share
As my fingers, they run through your silky brown hair

I'll cover your lips, with my lips, oh so tender
Once again to your heart, I sweetly surrender
569 · Jan 2016
Boxes
Michael Murphy Jan 2016
I keep my life in boxes, neatly labeled and arranged
Here's the box I have for you, no surprise, it's named deranged
564 · Jun 2023
Proposal
Michael Murphy Jun 2023
T ime

O ur

U nion

C ombines

H earts
Not sure where I was going with this but I was thinking about how poor my sad proposal went to my now wife. My car was smoking and I practically threw the ring at her when she answered the door.
563 · Nov 2015
The Swing
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
Mighty swing tree that carried me through summer days of yore

To-and-fro, I try, with each pump I fly higher than before

So strong, you stand, with single hand, you hold me safe and true

With me here in rocking chair,  from wood where you once grew
561 · Mar 2016
President Lincoln
Michael Murphy Mar 2016
A revelation I had
While watching a lad
Who swore, he was President Lincoln

Couldn't be, I did say
What had made him this way
Seriously, what was he thinkin

Oh so happy he seemed
He was living his dream
If only the Doctors could see

He was content just to stay
In his dream world all day
So I prayed this would happen to me

Now my sadness has lifted
And my thoughts are all sifted
Only delusions remain

I might seem a bit odd
In my mind I'm a God
Yes, as you guessed, I'm insane

Yours truly,

George Washington
549 · Jul 2016
Brothers and Sisters All
Michael Murphy Jul 2016
Believe what you want
We're in all different places

We're all different people
With all different faces

I refuse to preach
What I learned as the truth

What was drilled into me
While still in my youth

Muhammad , Allah, Jehovah, or God
Some will say no God
And you will think odd

I will say not
Let's respect one another

For aren't we truly from ONE father ONE mother

In a time long ago
In a place far away

There is no one alive
Who remembers that day

For if you did
you surely would say

That we're  all from one place

Oh brothers and sisters
It's time we embrace
We are not really all that different.
541 · Nov 2015
Secrets
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
I am a seed.
A pebble vault.
Secrets of the universe abound within
my humble form
So tiny and inconspicuous
I know without knowing how tall I will stretch,
How I will bend or not with the breeze,
How I will veil myself in dappled leaves
and invite bees to velvety garnet petals,
or thistles made of silk,
How do I know these things, you wonder, being so small
without wit, without sage?
How can I do this
With no teacher?
The teacher is in me
My secrets are my own.
539 · Sep 2017
Hope
Michael Murphy Sep 2017
Sadness grows like weeds

Choking out the light

On my happiness it feeds

As day folds into night

Oh blissful slumber

Fill my soul

With strength for

one more day

On the morrow

With brilliant light

My sadness melts away
Dealing with friends and family that struggle with sadness
533 · Nov 2023
Writers Block
Michael Murphy Nov 2023
It's Blank

                   My heart

It's Blank

                   My mind

It's Blank

                       My words

It's Blank

                                         The canvas of my life

Sorry!
530 · Apr 2017
My Advice
Michael Murphy Apr 2017
Take the slice when offered
It doesn't happen everyday

It's not that you don't want to
But life gets in the way
Married life
528 · Mar 2016
River Wild
Michael Murphy Mar 2016
I feel like I'm on a fast moving river

Sometimes I row hard and try to steer

Sometimes I just let the current take me where it will

Sometimes I feel lost

Sometimes I duck the low hanging branches

Sometimes the river widens and the current calms and I can rest

Sometimes the river narrows and the whitewater throws me into the boulders

It is in the turbulent waters that I am tested and my skills are sharpened

Always I try to appreciate the journey and the breathtaking views

I know around every bend, a new challenge awaits

Never knowing around which bend lies the non-corporeal sea of dreams

No more branches, no more bends, and no more boulders

Only calm waters, gentle breezes, and smooth sailing
527 · Nov 2015
Our Soul
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
Dig deeper to know the matter of man for there's really no matter at all
Just energy moving incredibly fast, so fast, yet incredibly small

Think of blades of the fan, not the blades, but the space, yes the space you see in between
Turn the fan on, and the space disappears, what you saw is no longer seen

Could our soul then exist as an energy field not needing the matter we see?
Then all that we knew, and then all that we know, would always continue to be!
If you enjoy this concept, then check out "Dr. Stuart Hameroff, M.D. — Microtubules & quantum consciousness" on YouTube.  Quantum Physics is amazing in my humble opinion!
515 · Jun 2016
Rain
Michael Murphy Jun 2016
I am a thirsty man adrift on your waters!  

Love abounds, but I dare not drink!

It is the promise I made that if you keep me afloat, I would not ask for a drop you did not willingly offer.

      I sit and pray for rain!
515 · Dec 2015
Three Rivers
Michael Murphy Dec 2015
The first river is the river of lust, it is a narrow turbulent river, full of hazards
The ride is fast and fun, but brief, destined to wash you ashore cut and bruised, the river's end is seldom seen

The second river is the river of love, only calm waters
Also a narrow river where beauty abounds
Very easy to forget you're alive, floating towards the rivers end,
a spring fed pond

The final river is the river of love and lust, the widest of all, and the most diverse
Navigation is tricky and requires a skilled hand sailing towards an ocean of wonders
Your attention is required, but rewarded with the most amazing journey
*There is time to ride and time to rest which is why I love this river best!
Inspired by John Lennon
511 · Jul 2016
My Soul
Michael Murphy Jul 2016
I believe that my soul is
Part of a whole

Connected to all that you see

You're not just you
And I'm not just me

We're as one, and always will be

When born into heaven
All is made clear

We are one with the earth
With the trees, with the deer

We are one with the clouds
And the rain, and the sea

We are one with each other
I'm with you, you're with me
I never really knew my grandparents and always thought it would be such a gift if I could read anything they wrote! It is why I write!
510 · Aug 2016
Transformation
Michael Murphy Aug 2016
Love isn't about *** or money or tricks. It is about a feeling that grows from deep within the soul. With constant attention it grows until it cannot be contained.  When it bursts from its cocoon,  the metamorphosis is complete. The transformation ushers in a new life, with all new possibilities.

True ecstasy can only be achieved when the whole heart commits
510 · Sep 2016
I Wonder
Michael Murphy Sep 2016
I wonder

If the animal
The dog, duck,  cat, and cow

Believe in life eternal
Or only think of now

I wonder

When the trees
Lose leaves

Will I hear them grieve

If they break a branch
Do they cry in pain

Do they think of God
Do they die in vein

I wonder

Who answers God's prayers
Does he pray at all

Or is that rare

I wonder

If God's so great
And we're so small

Are we like amebas
Does he care at all

I wonder
Wrote before my morning coffee...
507 · Jul 2016
Parenting
Michael Murphy Jul 2016
Teach your children  to love
Not hate

Be careful how you scribe
The slate

Wait too long and it's
Too late

Teach them now to love
Not hate
With all of the trouble in the world I was thinking that the solution is in all of our homes!
500 · Apr 2023
After I'm Gone
Michael Murphy Apr 2023
Read these words
Read them well

In these words
I do tell

My legacy
Is scribed you'll see

When I die
What's left of me

Are words of feelings
Failings, pain

And triumphs rising
Smiles again

Hearts so touched
The touched returned

Loves forever
And bridges burned

When I drift off
In endless sleep

These words I've sowed
Are yours to reap
Sharing poems is very personal but I think often that it may be the only way to not disappear completely.
499 · Apr 2023
Apex
Michael Murphy Apr 2023
I'm an apex predator
You better pray

In my hunting ground
That time of day

I'm hungry now
You're my meal

Circling above
Soon you'll feel

Ours lives now one
I devour you

Nourishing me
You're born anew
I was watching a bal eagle and trying to imagine what it must be like to be such a force of nature.
496 · May 2023
Attention Defi...
Michael Murphy May 2023
I have a little Attention Defi... what?
Lost my focus, I can't see

Not quite done with A
Now I'm moving on to Z

I cannot master anything
My interest starts to shift

I know a little bit of everything
Believe me, not a gift

If only I could focus
I'm afraid that isn't me

I might still have a chance
If I can master OCD
494 · May 2023
Smile
Michael Murphy May 2023
O                   O
U

S                           E 
M                   L
I L E S M I
This was harder to do in this simple editor than I had anticipated.
490 · Mar 2017
Hidden
Michael Murphy Mar 2017
Hidden poems
Kept out of sight

Secret pain
I cannot write

Broken dreams
Cut my feet

Distant goals
I'll never meet

Broken heart
That never mends

Bleeding out
I can't pretend

Smile dims
My laughter ceases

Shattered life
With missing pieces
488 · Jun 2023
Sandwich
Michael Murphy Jun 2023
I wish we were a sandwich
Simple would suffice

Smooshed between the slices
with you would be so nice

You could be my jelly
your sweet as sweet can be

I am simply nuts for you
Crunchy PB's the one for me

We go so great together
I know you feel it too

I offer you this sandwich
to show that I love you
I don't know.
487 · Aug 2023
My Muse
Michael Murphy Aug 2023
Be my muse
If you accept
I'll immortalize

Your beauty
Forever in verse

With words
Will describe
The ecstasy

Of a fantasy
I would love
To traverse

Be my muse
And feel the
Passion I feel

Surrender to the
Moment sublime

Take a leap and let go
Be my muse and you'll know
The love you will feel

When you're mine
Certain people move me to write
484 · Nov 2023
My Dream
Michael Murphy Nov 2023
No money
No war
No hatred
No more
No color or creed
No taking
No greed
No left and no right
No reason to fight

Just love
Was thinking that we will never be truly civilized until we embrace love.  The Beatles had it right
482 · Nov 2015
LAST
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
If I had known it was the LAST time I would climb on your mountains

If I had known it was the LAST time I would lay in your dew misted valley

If I had known it was the LAST time I would feel your warmth seducing my skin

If I had known it was the LAST time I would taste your sweet waters

If I had known it was the LAST time I would breathe your spring flowers

If I had known it was the LAST time...

I would have traced each step until the path became clear

I would have laid in your valley until the morning was near

I would have soaked in your sunshine and never be cold

I would have  bottled your waters to drink when I'm old

I would have breathed you all in and then hold my breath

And the memory of you I'ld  take to my death
I invite comments good and bad! My skin is leather. I'm a novice and wish to improve!
480 · May 2023
Embracing Change
Michael Murphy May 2023
If you paint your canvas white
embracing just the light

Keep neatly out of sight
the wonders of the night

No colors on your page
No red expressing rage

No blue to show your mood
Your emptiness conclude

You're missing all the splendor
your magic brush could render
Just a short one. I was thinking about how so many people want everything to stay the same.
480 · Nov 2015
Second Kiss
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
As he opened her door, he noticed a tear rolling down her cheek.  It was all so overwhelming, the happiness to be exact.  As he wiped the tear away with his thumb, she leaned her head into his hand. Running his hands through her hair, never breaking eye contact,  hundreds of thousands of years of instinct took over.  When their lips met the world that they lived in disappeared and they were immediately transported into a new existence.  Where there was two, there was now only one.  They were lost in each other, not knowing where one person started and the other ended.  

It could be argued that no first kiss has ever been as deep or sensual as the second kiss. Their experience was no different.  Easily the second kiss in the car was the kiss they would be thinking about every second that they were apart.
Want to turn this into a book
471 · Dec 2015
Pillow Talk
Michael Murphy Dec 2015
There are things I can share, only now, only here
Skin on skin and sin on sin, I will open the door and
allow you into my closet of skeletons

Only now, only here, do I dare reveal, my inner thoughts
It is in trust earned loyalty that I do share

Be prepared, for it is through this dark passage that you also enter my heart
No turning back, Angels await to forever join our love!
467 · Nov 2015
Journey
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
I've crawled, I've walked, I've run, I've hopped,
But usually I just shuffle

There was a time when I flew through the air, so they said
But that was during a scuffle

I've limped, I've hobbled, I've wheeled a chair
and then I walked with a crutch

While sledding, I flew, what a fun thing to do
But the landing, I guess not so much

I've been in a car, I've been on a plane
and of course, cause it rhymes, I've been on a train

A skate board, a scooter, a bike, and yes skis
and then on a ship, I traveled the seas

I took a bus once, but then gave it back
The promise of prison was too much to hack

I should walk with a cane but I'm really too vain
So I stumble, and fall into walls

I've driven a tractor, backhoe, and front loader
and a wagon I'm using for hauls

I've traveled a lot in the journey of life, I've even rolled in the clover
and with you by my side, we'll keep riding the ride, til the one who's in charge yells it's over
466 · Jun 2023
Catching up with my Father
Michael Murphy Jun 2023
When I was born my father was 100% older than me
He was 40 and I was brand spanking new

In ten short years, I was 20% as old as my old man
He was 50 and I was 10

It increased to 33% when I was 20, but I was too busy to think about it

I believe I told him when he turned 80 that I was finally half his age

I wonder if I had told him that I would be 99% as old as him if he lived for 4000 years; Would that have made a difference? Would he still be here running the race?

Probably not. Who wants a kid that's the same age?
I think there were many times when my dad wished I would stop talking
460 · Apr 2023
Wisdom
Michael Murphy Apr 2023
Stay in your lane
It's not your fight

I know that it's tempting
You're thinkin you're right

The wisdom you'll find
In the days you look back

Was knowing when to retreat
And when to attack
458 · Jan 2016
Angels Whisper
Michael Murphy Jan 2016
There are words, not yet said
Not yet written, so not yet read

They're magic words, that make real
The love we share, the way we feel

Such magic words, you can't resist
They hold the key, of lips yet kissed

With these words, I will wed
Not your body, but soul instead

Forever mine, your heart will be
When Angels whisper words for me
457 · Apr 2023
Exploring Grief
Michael Murphy Apr 2023
So sick I see
I see death and war
A loving couple
That loves no more

The orphaned child
The broken limb
The pious soul
So wracked with sin

Watch flowers spring
From sickened soil
To die again
And lay to spoil

A faceless man
once proud and true
So what's the point
I point to you

If God there be
Is this the goal
That grief impact
Eternal soul

Is there a moral
To this story
Will grief-filled paths
Then lead to glory
456 · Nov 2015
Exposed
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
In pages of prose I have removed all, and stand before you, naked and exposed

Nothing hidden, so study me well, but know I am vulnerable now

Pay special attention to the scars on my heart

If you look very close, you will see, a void where your love should be
456 · Nov 2015
Steam!
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
The train of despair is rolling now
It's building up steam
Faster and faster the tunnel approaches

Just a passenger, not the engineer
Powerless to stop my descent

The darkness now envelops all I once saw
There's a cold dank odor in the air

If this be my end, and my end this might be
Throw coal on the fire and build up more steam

Take me fast to the wall, don't linger, don't wait
It's the trip that I dread, not the crash at the end
452 · Oct 2023
The End
Michael Murphy Oct 2023
No more wick to light
The candle lost its fight
It actually is about a candle that I couldn't light. Lol
449 · Dec 2015
Thinking
Michael Murphy Dec 2015
see                      arranging                               ­                 puzzle
        do                   all                   web          posterity                       for

                                      is                                         my
                       sow                 for                   answer                   synapse                
                                                                ­                                                          
               the               filtered                   which     I    in     words            
                                                          to                                                           
                 flow                thoughts                   ­                       of*                      
                ­                                                                 ­                                
In synapse web my words do flow
Arranging thoughts of which I sow

Filtered puzzle for posterity
The answer is for all to see
The idea of how a jumble of words can come together to become something beautiful is always amazing to me! They take on a life of their own!
446 · Nov 2015
Equation of Living
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
Living = Love + Learning + Laughter
Not so complicated in theory!
445 · Dec 2023
Fire
Michael Murphy Dec 2023
Long after the fire
The embers are too hot to touch
445 · May 2023
Euphoria
Michael Murphy May 2023
A calm release
Morphine drips

No lucid thought
upon my lips

The pain now dull
Once beating strong

The dream world waits
It won't be long

I'm flying now
I cannot lie

Such a trip
I'm so **** high
I've had my share of operations where I was introduced to a myriad of narcotics. I have to say that I am fortunate to not have an issue with addiction because it was fun.   I wish I didn't turn in the unused drugs. There are days!
444 · Jul 2018
Argh!
Michael Murphy Jul 2018
To travel to a place
Of wonders, few have ever known

To see the beauty under
So seldom has been shown

Explore the valley lush
Such pleasure lies within

Exploding in such rapture
Exposing lovers skin

To feel her hands upon me
My world begins to quake

Just about to taste her lips
Is the moment I awake
Not sure if I love those dreams or hate them
441 · Nov 2015
Waking World
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
It is in waking moments, before thinking intrudes, that true happiness resides

With remnants of dreams still governing my reality, I fly, I love, I am invincible.

You are still in my waking world, we are still as one in my waking world!
440 · Jul 2016
Games
Michael Murphy Jul 2016
I asked
She said no

I asked again
She said no

I asked again
She said no

I left her for the arms of another
she realized I wasn't asking

She said yes

Too late
435 · Nov 2015
Hidden Beauty
Michael Murphy Nov 2015
I feel you're a flower at the end of the day

When the sun has gone down and it's hidden away

All it's beauty is hidden, in a ball, oh so tight

Away from our gaze, this just isn't right

I howl at the moon to shine brighter on you

But it won't heed my cry so what can I do?

I'll stay by your side and be your bright light

Always the gift of your beauty,  in sight
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