. Poetry from The Great In-Between: May 2020

Friday, May 22, 2020

The Call of the Demerge

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The Call of the Demerge

I am that which is ageless

For I’m from beyond that thing in the midnight sky 

Called the Silver Moon
From a faraway place


My powers are ubiquitous

I'm the embodiment of all inner magick

Love power and peace
All fused in me 
Awaiting release


I’m the midnight shadow walker

The eternity enveloping your every moment

All around you
Wherever you are

For I'm that which is ageless behind the twinkling stars


For I’m from beyond the Crying Moon

From a faraway
Unknown Place

Of no unions and all mortal governments and secret societies

Sing to me

For I’m a conduit


Forever living under the silvery shadows of the Wolf moon

I appear at birth and revisit at death

To take you home


I’m the full mystical wheel that turns


I’m the lucky charm

That was bestowed to you at birth


The charm I will take back

Whenever you leave


If in me
You do really believe

For I’m a deep ravine
Of unknown riveting depths

Unsolvable by just one lifetime


I’m primal
Supernaturally
Curious


I can feel your eyes lingering


Absorbing and swallowing my
Every word


From my throne room
In which I now sit


Your presence wakes me

From my slumber

From afar

I know you’ll read
On and won’t quit


What do you need

Send me your thoughts

I’ll answer your numbers

Tonight


I'll send some love and light

Or some darkness


Maybe a sprinkling of my glorious
Second sight

To guide you through your struggles
And plights


Will you still worship me

Your new Goddess and Queen


For I send this message just for you

From my kingdoms

Just hidden in realms
You can’t ever see


Look to the stars

To the fall of the full moon


I am that which is ageless

For I’m from beyond
The Milky Way

From a faraway place

My powers are ubiquitous

For
I'm the embodiment of all inner magick

A multitude of
Love power and peace
Awaiting release


I’m the eternity of all you are

For
I'm the Demerge


A blending
Of two realities


A possibility to enhance

Your own individuality


Will you sing to me
Tonight

Now kneel and say after me

Blessed Be


Copyright John Duffy 


Do you belong to me



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If I had the keys to the doorways of your mind
Would I help to heal  what I would find

Would it be endless drama and traumas
Or embers of hopes and dreams
As your inner realms screams

If I had the keys to the doorways of your mind
Would you trust me to heal what I would find

The signs and symbols
Unspoken or unsigned

Would my love for you
Still stay strong and aligned

Standing upright in straight blue lines
To help you climb out of deep pools
Of darkness and lies

If I had the keys to the doorways of your mind
Would I be enough for what I would find

To still love your grind
To walk with you
Until we cross the red finish line

Will all that pressure bring me down
Or would I walk on

To find 
That beloved place inside

Just for you and I
Until the day I die

If I had the keys to the doorways of your mind
Would I like what I would find

If I had the keys to the doorways of your mind

In time
Would you just love me

Like you were preordained
To just be mine

Copyright John Duffy.

The Guitar Man


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And some still ask

Me


Would you sell
Your soul for a dime or a buck
If you ran out of luck


Would you sign
Across
The dotted line


For fame or fortune


Would you ride
On the back of one of
The Four horsemen



Would you do a deal
With the Devil in
Silence



Would you be owned by
Apollyon


As he welcomes you
Into the dark asylum


Or instead


Would you suffer

The mortal
Sins of Trying


To conquer those burdens
Or dreams
You're carrying


There's always shortcuts
To the very top



Only you can decide
To do the deal


Blow your trains whistle
And stop


To enter into its dark
Beauty shop


I'm just an old guitar man
Singing this old tune



Cos I
Done my deal
With the devil
Many years ago



They all called me up
Up asking



Johnny
How did it go



I just say


Sign on the dotted line
And then you'll know


For
I'm just a guitar man
Singing my own song



Done my deal
With the devil
Many years ago



I got so much money and
Riches
But only I
Know the secrets


And all the many others
Who sold out
For fame


We are but one of many
Who still
Whisper his name


I'm just a Sell-Out
Playing gigs in the dark



Praying my candle
Doesn't burn out
As I walk past

Arya Stark


Cos i
Done my deal
With the devil
Many years ago



Only I know the secrets
Where this life
On the road goes


To dark places
Filled with old faces



As I carry round
My many Louis Vuitton
Suitcase's



Copyright John Duffy 2019

I love you Never sleeps

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When the moonlight opens
Up its starry sparkling gates

And the midnight stars
Seem to twinkle

And whisper your divine name

No matter how I feel
Anxious happy or sad

No matter how hard
My soul quietly weeps

Or smiles to the unseen ether
Swirling all around me

I now know the tormented anxiety
And sleepless nights

Quietly hidden with those painful three words

For

I love you

Never sleeps

Copyright John Duffy 2019

Can two cheaters ever be truly happy?


Can two cheaters ever be truly happy?

A theme portrayed endlessly in soaps, drama's, film, but more realistically, life.

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We always meet
Under the moonlights priceless
Silvery rays

We dance like entwined
Consummated eternal lovers
Forever engaged

Married insidiously
By Father Darkness

Through our wicked
Salacious old ways

The thoughts of the world
And all outward consequences

Simply burn on our
Old relationships funeral pyre
And just float away

Carried aloft by the
Cold now dystopian
Midnight's air

This crazy relationship

Which once started as a
Facebook and Twitter
Conversation

Now such a thrilling
Exhilarating irreducible dare

Is now my every
Breathing prayer

This may last or may break

It may end in a heartbeat 
As we share a slice 
Of the Devil's

Delicious seductive cake

But you were always
Worth the risk and long waits

Your three words now just bind me
And sing for me

Whenever my green eyes close

Three words within eight letters
I just plead to hear

I love you

It just keeps me starstruck
Like a Hollywood big actor

Lost on your big screen
Projector

Regardless of our sin and
Our unspoken marriage

As we ceremoniously
Slide through dark shadows

Like unseen lepers

I know we'll win
And buy that dream
Together

For
We're just one
Of the worlds many
Unknown sinners

Swimming valiantly
In one of life's
Many deep rivers

Holding tightly
To each other as we
Sometimes struggle
To breathe

Trying to be
Together forever

Whatever this judgemental
World
Believes or conceives

Married together
Insidiously

Through our wicked ways
As we weave 

Gaslighting
Family and friends 
And lovers

Through shared
Machiavellian plans

To always deceive

Copyright John Duffy 2019

Thursday, May 21, 2020

Mother


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Go deep my reader
To the Eternal well 



The one unvisited until
You eventually sleep



Bathe and cleanse yourself 
Of all the troubles or pain 
Of which you might nightly weep



And remember to bring back a drop 
Of its essence as
Morpheus the Greek 



Bades you goodbye from his dark and 
Mysterious keeps



Use it to purify and sanitise 
Your old and eternal soul



It's how you'll forever win 
As you slowly grow 
Old



Copyright John Duffy 2019

Summer Solstice.


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Will you
Come  all

Yes
Yea and dance

For
In the deepest woods.
In that old
Woodland grove

Something stirs

An electric emotion
Consuming the very air

Can you feel
It's pulse
And all consuming
Power

Would you attend as
An invited guest
With me
And dance

Go wild
And let your mind and soul
Be held prisoner

As they are
Slowly deflowered

Beyond all worldly
Fears
As unknown spirits advance

Would you still attend
As a guest of mine

To visit my dark midnight
Equinox Summer Festival

To communicate
And bind with the
Deep divine

To be totally lost
And absorbed in its
Yellow ring
Of supernatural lights

Which will
Swirl all around us
As we breathe in
It's ancient dust

To watch and wonder
At the
Opening of hidden gateways


Above us
And below us

A spell to be cast in dark skies
By illuminated souls


Between time and space

As we prepare and stand


Hidden from
The mundane
Human race

To see a new brave world.
Soon ours to summon
And command

Where
Nothing but goodness
And love will fill our old
Souls

For tonight
We will dance
With our pagan ancestors of old

It's our time of year
As we will
This supernatural equinox festival
To arrive

To embrace maybe painful
Embers and emotions
Of Summers long past

That may have survived

To then
Embrace old Winter

As she slowly awakes
And begins to gradually
Materialise

A flurry of cold memories
Hidden in mystical snow.
To beguile

Will
You dance

Beyond wet
Tears for people

We always remember
Who have died


As we may cry

For tonight
On this pagan eve

We shall live forever


For we baptised
To be eternal

And will never
Die beyond

All who can truly see
As their reawakened
Souls

Cry out

Blessed Be

Copyright John Duffy

Ballad of the Witcher


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A long time ago

With some
Blindfolded or
Tied to old green
Wooden stakes

They loved to stone
Or just burn us

Just because they thought
We were different

Since they lived in an unseen
Primitive world

Overflowing with such
Shameless ignorance

We
Who once danced to
Old Mother Moon

Or just under
The mystical Sun

Maybe
In our own woodland grove

Or simply around
Luminous fires
On secretive moors

As the cycle's of the world
Slowly
Ebbed and Flowed

Always staying hidden from all
On the mainlands
Busy main roads

We the old
Or new poets
Singers

Music makers
Authors
Famous or still unknown

But still brave enough to
Stand courageously

In front of all the haters

We are all still
Representations of
The Old
Seducers of the mind

For we are all
World shakers

We who have always have walked
All those strange roads

Wherever our
Fate took us

And today we are all reborn

But now unafraid
To live our true way

For all our
Ancient ancestors
Now just
Live within
Us

Just leading us forward 

Is there a light
Within you too

A light
A strange beacon which
Is always lit

No matter how you feel

A need to write
Sing or  produce

Using all those all remembered
God given talents
To truly seduce

To help others
Purge all those emotions
Which
Around us all
Still flows

For we are all human
And so we are all baptised to feel


Did you once

With strength

And conviction

Willingly kneel


To be

Blessed before

Apollo's altar

To then stand unafraid before all to see
As you bravely whispered 

Blessed Be

Copyright John Duffy 2019

In Griefs Darkest Hours

A painful day will come

Live Painting Gallery - Peter Farmer

Soon

My beloved 

When I am no longer around
To share my love and sweet
Smiles

But you will find happiness

When this once penned
Love letter is eventually found

Yes you

You will cry
Like the Holy River is
Running down your soft cheeks

Just wondering why I disappeared
So long ago
When things between us died

Those precious tears
Which may seem to fall
Endlessly

When you look for me
Up in dark storm filled
Skies

But dear beloved
Don't search for me
Aimlessly

Throughout all the
Busy villages or big cities
Streets

For
I am here
Deep inside

To whisper through beloved
Memories

To bring to you
Much needed inner peace

For I’ll always love you

May these words
Still linger
And resonate deep inside

To help you cross
Mother Griefs
Notorious picket line

And
If there ever comes a time
When they seem to lose their glimmer
Or shine

Or just
Through time
Slowly fade

Just pick up one of my
Divine memories sticks

One of my old photographs
And revisit our once happy
Memories Parade

For I am simply
A heartbeat away
A silent joyous thought

On a beautiful Summers day

A warm embrace
While the Winters starlings
Play

Just forever
Keep me real close
Within the deep recesses
Of your mind

Don't let Father Time
Tear us apart but
Just let me live

Within each and every
Beat of your heart

For here's a secret
Many cursed by
Father Time

Simply forget

A few flowers on specific days
May seem so precious

But for us who live inside

If you can remember us in
The good times

The happiness and joyous
Occasions

Then we will be reborn
In your beautiful tear-filled eyes

To always return to
Help you conquer

Your soft tears and perhaps a
Seemingly never-ending
Depression

So smile now and just
Think of me

So I can be reborn
To always see

All you can be

Copyright John Duffy 2019

Painting by Peter Farmer
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