Peter E. Murphy

Poet • Writer • Teacher

Poems

A few of my favorite things…

 

These first few are from Things As They Are, a chapbook awaiting for a publisher. These poems are reflections on a series of etchings by David Hockney based on “The Man With The Blue Guitar” by Wallace Stevens based on a painting of an old man by Picasso who saw a guitarist busking on a Barcelona street.

These next few are from a series in progress titled The Lost Star.

These are published in Mean Time. 

These are published in I Thought I Was Going to be Okay. 

 

Labor Day: Atlantic City” in Rattle

Erased” in Poetry City

Harder” in Love & Ensuing Madness

“At the New Age Hotel” & “Can’t Dance” in The Cortland Review

Baptism” in The Cortland Review

Search For a Bent Twig” in Chest

If This Be Treason” in Writing for Human Rights

“Blog,” “Mumbles” & “On Snowdon’s Wilds” in Brickplight

Breaking News” in Philadelphia Stories

Llywelwyn’s Dog” in Verse Daily (Ouch, they spelled Llywelwyn wrong)