. Poetry from The Great In-Between: January 2021

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Foreshadowing 2021


It's January the 12th, what will the year bring?
Will the 20th, bring carnage or a peaceful transition?

With all the swirling political, and human issues, surrounding recent events in the USA and the many covid related events, how will 2021 end?

Will it be a year for freedom or tyranny?

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Salute.



 Narrated by the super-talented,  Clinton R.  Johnson. 

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Peter. The Keeper of Keys.

Press play and let the emotional music wash over you as you read.
Salute.




Some may call me a charlatan

A new reborn follower of a King 

From somewhere totally

Glorious


It's so Cosmopolitan


A seducer of fragile minds

Who might choose to hold me upright

 

As I baptised another poor sinner 

And try to bring an end to all their tragedies 


Solidified in written oxygen

Whatever the consequence  



But my message is simply this



Try to live for happiness and a loving muse


Paint touching emotional pictures through stories

Photographs

Music or poetry 


Using them as your own golden lyre

And then lay them gently in green fields and upon velvety avenues


So those who want to read them 

Can never ever be refused



Try not to lament old age 

As it tries to freeze your spiritually youthful body 

in those dark moments of living


For it's forever deemed to be so beautiful and lithe

With a profound strength 


To swim through tributaries 

of anxiety which may seem so unforgiving


From all that red pain to eventually finding 

newer beginnings



Your heart may seem heavy 

and you might lose hope and feel all emotions


Linked to losing happiness or love 



But look me in these eyes

Watching you

 

Within these words 

and be lifted up in Dawn’s 

rose-flushed arms 


To truly live



Then look into life’s deep silvery mirrors

and always remember


You have so much more 

To still give


So just know when that grieving whistle blows

When that hope of love
seems to disappear at night

 

When the darkness appears


 I’ll be always here
To hold you


Some may call me a charlatan

A new reborn follower of a King 

From somewhere totally

Glorious


It's so Cosmopolitan


A seducer of fragile minds

Who might choose to hold me upright

 

As I baptised another poor sinner 

And try to bring an end to all their tragedies 


Solidified in written oxygen

Whatever the consequence


But my message is simply this



Will you let these words breathe through you

And calm the storm inside


As I try to keep your fire alight

Throughout all these upcoming dark nights


For I hold all the keys 

To the Kingdom and one day 

I hope and pray


 I'll let you in 



When your astral eyes open and

Me 

You'll see

 

Copyright John Duffy


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