Ronan Murphy

@ronanmurphymusic.com

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Jazz singer | Poet | New single IDLE MOMENTS out now | Album THE TEMPLE SESSIONS ronanmurphymusic.com Poetry collection forthcoming in 2026 | With THE BROKEN SPINE @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Front cover of Ronan Murphy's single 'Idle Moments'

Front cover of 'Restless', the new single from Ronan Murphy's album 'The Temple Sessions,' recorded with Ryan Molloy, Eoghan McCloskey, and Shugo Ishii

Cover of 'Moose The Mooche (You Gotta Whistle Like Bacall', the new single from Ronan Murphy's album 'The Temple Sessions', recorded with Ryan Molloy, Shugo Ishii & Eoghan McCloskey

Photo of Charlie Parker backstage at Carnegie Hall, c.1947. Smiling, radiant. Photo by William Gottlieb

Poem by Ronan Murphy (1 of 2)

the rain
sylphs
and
stills
in
the pine
trees
pine and
the rain
sylphing
the
wet
needles
the
needles
of rain
sylph in
the dark
pine

B&W photo of Dizzy Gillespie playfully embracing Ella Fitzgerald backstage in NY. Photo by Herman Leonard

Text of the poem:
liminesce

listen the
stars taste of
passion fruit

By Ronan Murphy

Cover of Peeling Apples by Alan Parry

Portrait photo of Djuna Barnes

Text from Prometheus Unbound by P.B. Shelley.
From Demogorgon's speech at the finale:

Love, from its awful throne of patient power
In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
And folds over the world its healing wings.

Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity,
Mother of many acts and hours, should free
The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume
An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Lyrics to We'll Be The Same

Cover of High Rise, a poetry anthology from The Broken Spine press