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About me - Tom Mcmurray

I am sixty-five years old and still involved in medical research and theory. My interest in medical research began while attending Stanford University in the early sixties. I was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder or as it was called then, manic-depressive

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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Life is . . .: 5 of 133

My life has become a brittle bouquet Of dead red roses in rapid decay And all that I thought one day I could be Is now but a part of lost history. I look to the East and yearn for the West, Confusion conceals the best of my quest. Lost to the ages and rages of time, Dreams of destruction destroy the sublime. This haunting re... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Illusions: 2 of 52

The master of illusion and confusion has arrived and soon he will explore the many facets of your mind. A shaker and a shaman who finds everything contrived, while stripping you of sanity then leaving hope behind. Appearing from the ether of your foggy, clouded dreams; believer and deceiver in the ancient history. A planner ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Faith vs. doubt: 1 of 26

My need to understand is great, with deep and burning fire inside. The great concerns I contemplate, I yearn to learn with lasting pride. A question tweaks then activates a special sequence in my mind, while this, at times, necessitates the leaving of old rules behind. It is the nature of the beast, a driven, dedicated need,... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Homeless: 6 of 152

I walk the dark deserted city blocksWhere broken-street concrete is in decay.The large construction sites and loading docksHave disappeared with time along the way. When man preserves his culture's history,Include the neighborhoods where blood ran redOr we concede collective memory -For one by one another one lies dead. The u... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Perfect love: 5 of 115

Now if I could I would caress your faceWith fingers light upon your silken skin.Then hope we soon engage in one embraceTo free the frightened angel known as sin.A beauty far beyond my boldest thoughtAbove all common understanding rare.A model of perfection men have sought,With marbled alabaster skin so fair.Oh nameless, unive... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: The Grim Reaper: 1 of 22

Above the whispers on the evening breezeI stand alone before the salty seasBut fragmentary visions bring no peace,As conflict compositions now must cease. The tortured war for Vietnam has bledInside my mind it climbed around and fedUpon the Holy blood behind the signOf new contrition and old Dago wine. Your faith along with ... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Music: 7 of 153

hidden in liquidthin slivers of sightflicker quick-silver enigma of life swift pliant swirlsof bright spiral lighta dull lunar glowover transparent seasbronze olive beautyin multitude bluesimbued by dark amber streaked pupils of black More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Addiction: 16 of 329

I'm pale and prone upon a wooden bed;a rice bag pillow underneath my head.The ivory white tipped opium pipeleaks sweet scented smoke-so rich-so ripe.I take the tip between my lips with careas bitter smoke begins to lift despair.The turning, burning war now disappearswhile magic dragons slay my hidden fears.I gaze across the h... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nightmares: 6 of 121

While deep in sleep I drift into a dream,where cast into the vast and vexing void,I hear within a howling wind, a scream,that fills my mind with visions paranoid. No light shines through the blackness of this pit;a single scream is now a chorus sung.Ferocious now the fear I can't admit,each breath pulls acrid air within my l... More..
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Human nature: 1 of 20

I wonder why the vibrant nature of earth, stars and skyrarely interacts or sharesinfinite wisdom possessed to influence human spirits gifted with grand capacities who might gently interrupt and then transform the sad realtities of man's long and often tedious journey. Nature's universal wisdom is manifest in amber dawn's bla... More..