Poetry and Songs
Here I will publish Songs and Poems I have written. If you are interested in performing or publishing any you can email me at TMPHOTO@WI.RR.COM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: The Friends of the Whitefish Bay Library Writing C...
Sunday, March 20, 2016
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: I am one of the Top 3 Winners of The Friends of th...
Monday, January 26, 2015
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: A Simple Poem 01 26 2015
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Poetry 11 12 2014
Sunday, May 25, 2014
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Monkey Wife Song 05 25 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Dancing in the Show Poem Song of the day 04 28 201...
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Poetry 04 03 2014
Monday, December 16, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Look for my new CIGAR BOX GUITAR HIGH ADRENALIN CD...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: One of my favorite Movies !!!!!
Monday, October 28, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Gangrene Queen A Song about the bad of religion 10...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Do you ever wonder what happens 10 15 2013
Friday, October 4, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Song of the day 'Tell me where the zero is" 10 04 ...
Sunday, September 8, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Today's Feature Presentation Film 'Bug on Water'
Friday, June 14, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: The Hand of Man 06 14 2013
Thursday, March 21, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Second Place Winner in “The Friends of the Whitefi...
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Quote of the day 03 07 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: Quote of the Day 02 14 2013
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The Milwaukee and Wisconsin News: A ball of string drops on the floor 12 19 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Yowsabouts 10 29 2011
Saturday, August 27, 2011
What the Beatnik Caught
A new free verse poetry recording of mine will be available online soon. 55 minute’s for 99 cents. That is right 55 minutes of Beatnik Free Verse Poetry for less than one dollar. It is titled “What the Beatnik Caught.” It starts to get real good ten minutes into it.
What it is, is a word frequency analysis of a novel that I wrote. And that means that the words that I read in this start from most written in the novel to least used in the novel. I started to read the hiearchy of words as sentences of poetry. And it does indeed turn into what amounts to free verse poetry.
A word frequency analysis boils down the novel to all the words written in it in frequency of use and is useful to determine if there are mispelled words in a novel and as well as words or proper names you might like to change to something better.
If you have a literary mind that seeks to make sense out of the world you might like this.
You can purchase it on CD Baby under the search term "What the Beatnik Caught" by clicking link below.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thomaspaulmurphy2
Thomas Paul Murphy
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2011 Thomas Paul Murphy
Monday, August 23, 2010
Aspiration 08 14 2010
A crow flew by
It knew what I saw
It wanted to abandon its dreadful cackling caw
The crow told me it wanted to fly like a gull
As I drove in my four wheeled metal framed hull
And try and be
What I like to see
It beat its wings in long rhythmic strokes
But quickly had to revert to its faster wing like pokes
It knew I did not bring my camera
And therefore it would first time test its wings of Gamera
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
Sunday, July 11, 2010
She's Too Brat For Me- a rightful takeoff from the polka
I don't need your wife
You may keep her strife
She's too brat for me
She's too brat for me
I don't want her
You can have her
She's too brat for me
She's too brat for me
I don't need your wife
You may keep her strife
She's too brat for me
She's too brat for me
I don't want her
You can have her
She's too brat for me
She's too brat for me
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
Thursday, July 8, 2010
The U-Turn Poem 07 08 2010
The U-Turn Poem
Always when I want to do a U-eee
A car blocks my way
And damn I’m through-eee
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
“Poker Lineage Smith” 07 08 2010
“Poker Lineage Smith” 07 08 2010
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He fought for beauty in the world
Against false pretense
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The written word in broken cursive
His best defense
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Scribbled down on traveled streets
Smiles providing comfort
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Glances a second to meaningful meets
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Lights and sound from rumbling tires
Hearts of stone or burning fires?
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Drives the wheel with knees
His words flowed with ease
Where should one say please?
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He opens a door of chaotic solitude
Is he home?
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Thomas Paul Murphy
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Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
The Uptight Song 07 08 2010
Uptight 07 08 2010
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Uptight
You’ve been up all night
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Uptight
I don’t like your fight
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Uptight
You know I’m right
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Uptight
I think you’re out of sight
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Uptight
You’ve been up all night
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Uptight
I don’t like your fight
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Uptight
I know you’re right
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Uptight
I think you’re out of sight
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Thomas Paul Murphy
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Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
The Deer Does Not Name the Berries 07 06 2010
The Deer Does Not Name the Berries 07 06 2010
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Berries in the forest
I know which ones are good to eat
They are like a treasure found
As is meeting a friend of the forest
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Some stops in the woods smell clean
Some places rotten smells lurk
Sometimes I smell and my ears perk up
Then I know which way to go
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As I then approach
Bounding away sounds are heard
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Brown fur then bounces up and down and away
Did my forest friends lead me to them?
Hoofs trod louder as rocks are trampled
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As one follows the deer path
We see what the deer sees
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The paths often wind upward on ridges
Through arrays of pines and birch
Then slope down near water
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The heat of exertion is sometimes met by patches of cold fresh forest air
Providing renewed vigor to the journey leg back
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The deer does not name the berries
Does it shop for favorites in its forest?
And know what will be on distant shelves today?
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Smell, sight, taste
Memory of being shown what to eat
When it was young
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Thomas Paul Murphy
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Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Where's My Mountain Honey Gone- Song
Where's my mountain honey gone
Where's she been a hiving
Where's my mountain honey gone
Where's she been a hiving
Where's my mountain honey gone
Where's she been a hiving
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
I kind of like this little song.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
The Platform Dancer
My Poem on the picture reads:
The Platform Dancer
The high fashion stepper
She's strutting her stuff
They couldn't get enough
Of her little fanny feather fluff
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
Green Palette
Green Palette
I can mix a shade of green, and I can make it mean.
A mean old shade of green.
I can add some yellow for the girl's who will say hello.
For the girl's who will say hello.
I can add some blue for a forest that is true.
A forest that is true.
COPYRIGHT 2009 Thomas Murphy
--Thomas Murphy
Diplomacy
Diplomacy 01 23 2010
One hand reaches out to another and they shake.
One hand reaches out to another, how strong did they shake?
One hand reaches out to another; it shakes too strongly, the other wilts.
One hand reaches out to another, it shakes not as strong, the other ponders reason.
One hand reaches out to another, it turns away.
One hand reaches out to another again.
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
Government and People
GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE 01 23 2010
A fist is raised.
One voice speaks to all the rest that must conform.
The words are spoken strongly. Is the meaning as strong as the speaking we ask?
Everyone hopes this finger is pointed at them.
A camel is thread through the eye of a needle as the will of the people trods through the narrow opening of two warring factions.
Are we more easily convinced by words spoken strongly, that are able to supersede this, or by reason, the one who tried to pay attention through all the distraction asks?
If it could see and accept its own faults would it readily find the fault of the other?
Old Mr. Crow
4/21/2001
Old Mr. Crow
Old Mr. Crow,
Tell me what you know?
Old Mr. Crow,
Show me where you go
Old Mr. Crow,
What do you do about the snow?
Old Mr. Crow,
How does your time flow?
Old Mr. Crow,
Do you eat the seeds I sow?
Old Mr. Crow,
What spirit do you tow?
Old Mr. Crow,
What does your vision show?
Old Mr. Crow,
Tell me what you know?
Copyright 2001, Tom Murphy
Phaedra Dear
COPYRIGHT 2009 Thomas Murphy
The Pickup Line 06 03 2010
That recruiter he come and take a look at me
He said son your as strong as you could be
But we don't have room for three
I almost made the majors after high school
That recruiter he come and take a look at me
He said son your as strong as you could be
But we don't have room for three
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Today’s Engineer?
Today’s Engineer?
Give me a fluffy baseball cap
The one with blue and white stripes
I want to be an engineer my friend
But I don’t know anything about different nuts and bolts types
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
The Lucy Song 05 22 2010
The Lucy Song 05 22 2010
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Her eyes were always very far away
She never had the right words to say
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
She always tried for a sense of poise
Her voice it was like chicken noise
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
She always clung to the back of a man named Ricky
He liked to clean, spam and licky
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
She could always hear my beckon call
Lucy who denied her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
Lucille Ball
She’s denying her fall
She could never forget our day
When we were together in the hay
One day she flew up and away
Thomas Paul Murphy
Copyright 2010 Thomas Paul Murphy
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