. Poetry from The Great In-Between: May 2022

Monday, May 23, 2022

The 200-year-old man, speaks.


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(A lone voice whispers)


Sometimes blowing out these ripples of purgatory fire that burns deep inside


Like a raging inferno


The suffering of standing alone here


In this ever falling soul purging rain


Compelled to just think


By mysterious powers wherever I go


I sometimes remember my long-forgotten lover's cherished name


In abundant waves from yesteryear


Even though it brings such discomfort and disturbing pain 


But still, I'm forced to remain


And this blue apocalypse I feel is now so surreal


As I stand here 


Burning up in the falling rain and snow while trying to heal


But my spirit guide who I currently know 


As Harrington the Third

Says it's no big deal


For emotions are soon to be made redundant by a higher power


As we ascend 


For in moments or even centuries


We'll all be part of this galaxy's ethereal dust


And all they are


Emotions


Are representations of the human condition

Distractions linked to our once mortal interactions


That lingers as we try to atone


For we are now entrusted to be freed from the husks 


Of who we once used to be


To forget all through being commissioned to review and plead our case for absolution


Through well-learnt prayers and profound beliefs


We were once brought up to trust and use as our shields


With some even begging and kneeling 


To be welcomed into Elysium Green Fields


But I'll always remember her


Even after all these years


That red rose I once met


Downtown in good old Tennessee


By the petrol station 

When I parked on the junction 


By that black expensive marquis 


On the state line


And when I looked over and her green eyes met mine


I can always recall how they turned a golden key


And opened up in my soul


A portal to a new world of opportunities within a sly wink


No one else could see


Which made me feel so human in time


And now with real eyes filled with burning fire


That never tire


I can finally see some strands of truth 


As I think 


This fickle universe is so dammed percutaneous


Purging all who once had skin in a blink 


Is that why we the dead 


Are now cursed to whisper and speak about our past lives


Forever in rhymes 


As we stand in this grey shade on the precipice


A brink and link between two dimensions


Harrington the Third calls 


The Purgatio Cauldron


A woeful place filled with the universe's many lost children 


Waiting and praying to see the 9 Spheres of Heaven




Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, May 22, 2022

The Sunday Voice

(A lone voice whispers)




In this grey shade of semi-darkness


I've sat down by the IPFT and looked again down through time 


Past all the fast-moving images and those sad heartbreaking ones


Portraying illnesses 


Lit a white Dominion protection magic candle and pondered


Is she with another I just can't see


Someone else's older or younger brother


That soulmate who once professed and confessed 


She was only mine


Would she still love me beyond all she feared


If I could somehow suddenly appear



Would her sweet kisses taste the same as before 


When we first met and I told her my sacred name


As I stood at her front door


But would she forget me this time when she got home


Delete my old number on her phone


I know she's a siren 

Lord


A beautiful beacon


A light in the dark who all fall to their knees


Whenever she calls



Is that why I'm cursed by the green shards of Belazor 


In this grey shade of semi-darkness 


As I embrace my own form of crucifixion


Charged to look down through time forever 


And tasked by Malachi


To always light a white Dominion magic protection candle 


From the sacred box of self-introspection


And ponder


Is she with another that has my reflection 


Who looks like me


Someone else's younger or older brother 


Now I've died and can only use the IPFT


To see




Copyright John Duffy 

Channelling Carlo

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Friday, May 20, 2022

Zamomotrom Speaks

 


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(A lone voice whispers)


My name is translated as the summoner of all crows


Zamomotrom


The keeper of old pagan secrets and all things known


I hide here in the middle of Megargorsa 


Just beyond the Mars orbit 


And send out from my hidden castles and keeps  



My flocks to find the chosen few 


To come to me 


Before they can join St Peters's many long queues 


For my flocks shall carry them over land and sea 


To my portal in The Great In-Between


Where I'll welcome them in 

With open arms


Into a new sense of well being


I'll give them a stunning black and white room


Filled with so many playthings


They'll never want to leave


In one of my many Palaces 


Already filled with lost souls


So they too can wander around 


Grieving

Screaming

Pining and smiling 


While all the time addicted like their old itch 


Facebook or Twitter and peeking at their obsolete life 


Through my many Scrying Mirrors


For killers

Saints

Singers 

Losers and winners


All those who passed through my golden gates and red pillars


Particularly the beginners


I take them all


Atom by atom 


While they get soul drunk on their sorrow after they respond 


When they hear my call


For I am Zamomotrom


The father and mother of all things 


Living under my Black Sun


So be it


Copyright John Duffy


Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Salvadoran Dreams

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(A lone voice whispers)



I can still remember a time


I spent with my old love called Miss Sloane

Where my only crime


Was to love her

All the time


Like a queen sat on a golden throne 

For she was my life's majestic keystone


Well those happier days have gone by


Starting in 98

In late July


When I died

And she gathered with a few others


Including my father and mother

Sisters and brothers


To say their heartfelt goodbyes 


Now I just need someone special like Miss Sloane 

To hear my early morning prayers


For in here

The land of no air


Heartbreak follows you

Like a second shadow


A thief in the dark night everywhere


From sad tears filled with memories of your one and only


To stories to remind you why you're still lonely

And why you spend long nights crying inside


Feeling lost and abandoned on your own


To cursing a new day that always ends in another time zone 


The doorway to here only opened 

When you hear the call of the Golden Trombone 


To be then be tasked in writing booths


To remembering when your only crime

Was to love someone so special


All as time flew by


After they all gathered at your wake 

As that magical doorway opened up


And you had to say your heartfelt goodbyes


When you suddenly heard the call of the Golden Trombone 


That summoned your soul home


Copyright John Duffy


Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Channelling Music From Sheol

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(A lone voice sings in Country, from the Deep Country)



She wears pain like a gold and diamond broach


Flashes her blues eyes 


With a hard message that reads


Do not approach


For she's a Southern Fire Country girl


A Southen Fire Country girl who's always in control


A Southen Country girl with a beautiful soul


A fire country girl now living it up in Sheol 


Wearing her pain like a cheap gold and diamond broach


Flashing her blues eyes 


With a soft message that reads


Wanna take me home


For she's a Southern Fire country girl


A Southern Fire Country girl who's always in control


A Southern girl with a beautiful soul


A Southen Fire Country girl now on parole


Living it up in here forever 

In good old Sheol


Copyright John Duffy 


A rather strange set of lyrics but they were so persistent. 


I've been so compelled to revisit and restructure a couple of lines.


And some say it's a blessing to have such a gift.


Would you like to hear voices whisper constantly, to your inner mind, in the low hours?


Send me your thoughts and I'm sure I'll pick them up. Salute.

Sunday, May 15, 2022

The Ballad of the Grieving Man

 

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(A lone heartbroken voice sings)


I never knew someday yesterday

Would be our last day together


Or that I'd have to say

Goodbye today


Standing by your grave in this falling rain

To the only love, I truly treasured


So now I just feel cold and always awake

In total pain


After being told


You gained your angel wings 

One day at night


And now live 

Where the Holy Choirs sing 


And no longer 

Need to fight


Some say God only takes the best


Leaving the rest to suffer in silence 

As part of his holy test


But I'm so jealous of his servant

Mister Death


For he gets to see you forever 

Which started on the tenth


And I still can't believe 

You're gone


Can't sleep 

Only greave


For there will never be another angel like you


For to love another would be too painful 

Whatever I do


Just know wherever you are

Your deep love will still always live on 


Deep inside 

Wherever I go like it's my lifes only decree


Before I'm too recalled


For in a cruel world where all our heroes fall


You were once 

My one and all


Who tried to help me stand tall


So starting today forever on the tenth

I'll always be so jealous of Mister Death


For he gets to see you forever 

In all weathers


For God only takes the best

Leaving the rest to suffer in silence


As part of his holy test

And until we meet again


All I can now do 


My Guardian Angel 

Is eat this pain


Whenever I try to remember you and your name 


Through these painful tears 


As it forever rains deep inside as time flies by



Copyright John Duffy


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Grief is, unfortunately, a tragic part of life. 

I wrote this as I reflected on a friend, gaining her angel wings.


Saturday, May 7, 2022

The Voice at Midnight. Speaks.

 

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(A lone voice whispers)


It's a strange thing, human emotions

They creep up like thieves in this endless night sky
Memories whispering to me like a loving stranger


For in deep moments of reflective solitude
I still think of her


Will she ever think and silently,
Whisper back to me 


As I remember her in here 
By the sacred Chislak Mountains


A warrior princess 
I once saved and who for a short while once stayed


Every night and
Especially 
In the early
Morning breeze 


And just over there as the twinkling midnight stars 
Bid their heartfelt goodbyes


Within your blazing passionate dark eyes
As you hear or read this


I hope I’ll live on 
And always once more come alive


To continuously 
Remind you of 
How happy 
We used to be 


The beloved memories 


Poetic stories and all
The goofy crazy laughter


So much happiness 
And joy


To echo from now into here
The Hereafter 


All caught in all the many old 
Photographs of me


You may still treasure and see


My sacred one named Tazanna 


I may now dance in here around the firestones
Amongst long lost galaxies 


Or unknown faraway stars


But whenever you think of me


I'll always appear 
I hope


Like a soft feeling


A subtle gust of wind
Or a white feather


A familiar yell or sensation


Wherever you are
Across this earth


Or simply hidden
Within any great nation


I may be now 
Part of the
Unknown In-Between realms 


But my love for you 


Will simply last 
Forever 


From this life to the next


For we were once 
Baptized somewhere ethereal by unknown angels to be 
Together


For we are eternal 


And one day by the Holy River
We will be reunited 



For now, I know and feel your aura
My twin soulmate called Tazanna


And all I can do is wait and cry a praise of adoration 
To The Almighty and shout Hosanna


For next to the Silver City


We will be reunited 
So I'm told in spirit 


For this life is simply a re-introduction


A sometimes cruel rehearsal 
And unknown to each other


We were once simply wondering
Lost 


Like so many others
In the Burning Circles of the Paranormal 


Before we all enter a new place


Where there are hopefully 
No more painful hurdles

 

Copyright John Duffy 


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Friday, May 6, 2022

Maximillian. The Man By The Shimmering Lake. Talks.

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(A lone voice whispers)



Lost in these unlit creepy dark woods 

Past the moonlit Shimmering Lake 

 


 Standing here as I speak



This despair I always feel which makes me weak

 Tells me love is a thing that is so real



It's all I now know as I stand awake

In this new state



For the dead don't sleep or weep

 


And when the mysterious singers in this darkness 

Call out to me with sweet mesmerizing voices


Each filled with such inescapable power


My pain slowly rises in my soul 

Hour by hour


As I'm watched by the Nixs 


Standing in crooked lines 

On the crumbling translucent walls of The Great Watchtower


 

Strange creatures dressed in blue

Who just love to send me Raven notes that simply say


Come to us to renew

The Diamond Door is always open


Be one of the Nixs

Follow our ways


To find the new you


Come climb The Great Watchtower walls


To drink deep from our wish-fed fountain and see past all the Black Mountains


No longer filled with urges to fight for love and light

But to become a lone Watchman of the Endless Night

 

They are so relentless 

Always looking for new apprentices


Raven after Raven bringing notes every second

They send


Now as I stand here at the end

Sending this out


Surrounded by the mountains of parchments they have sent 

Hoping I'll relent


I reckon I'll play my part 

To be the titled hero in this cosmic show

This work of art


While this crushing dusk and silver snow

Lovingly shatters my broken heart

 

For what the Nixs don't realize 

That crisp wide smile that I always wear


The one I flash


The one they all see through their obsidian scrying glass 

By candlelight 


As their hungry eyes follow me everywhere


That ripe smile is barren 


The real one is still somewhere 

Out there 


Still, I hope


Being carried around in beautiful blue eyes as her time flies



Why should I carry a real smile?


For in here

The living 


Beyond the Silver Barrier 

Can't hear your soul screaming


Or when through razor loaded invisible tears

You suddenly start laughing 


For the pain you feel is so loaded with bottomless fear


Oh, how I wish I could still be there 

With you 

 

Away from the Nixs and Dark Angels

For it's so painful


I used to think I was strong

But these endless dark nights are so long

 

Is today the day I will wonder

If I'm wrong to fight the Nixs many invitations


And go along to the Diamond Door 

Beneath The Great Watchtower 

And knock 


Asking to join their mix

 

For nobody in The Great In-Between

Knows I still miss you

 

For this swirling grey air and spooky fog makes you overlook your past life


And in time

Causes parts of your mind to speak only in rhymes and once it starts 


The forgetting begins


The Dissolution of the Flesh they call it


Its why they think I need setting free

By sending midnight Ravens every hour to me


To be like one of them


The Nixs

Guardians of The Great In-Between


Bounded to a sacred oath to stand as Watchmen on The Great Watchtower


For all eternity


Emotionally empty husks 

Who surrendered to a form of self-accepting bondage 


To watching the ever-shifting skies at dusk


For the dark ones called The Flominous



But I feel like I'm bound by a great chain

Connected only to you


Never to make a sacred oath to another but to kneel every night and pray for a resurrection of us


I may be trapped in this ever-evolving mystery 

Of my own love life's history

 

Where nobody knows I'll always need you

But me



The Nix have just sent a new Raven note over 

So I must be quick before their Baltise Drums start beating 


Sending them all into a crazy chanting frenzy


It says I can't survive in here 

On my own 

 

I'll just cast it on the great pile as they watch 

For what they do not know



My soul may be crying inside now I'm alone



In this 

The Spiritually Demilitarized Halfway Zone


Mislaid in the Realms of The Great Unknown

But my love for you will continue to grow


Day by day

Minute by minute until you too come home


To embrace me once more 

Like the last time, I saw you in San Francisco


So we can go walk past the red lampost on the edge of the Shimmering Lake 


To then walk hand in hand 

Through Heavens Silver Gates to everlasting happiness


It's a dream I just try to cling onto in this darkness

Attempting not to forget but the rhyming has started


But I'm still here

Still resisting the hunger to knock on that Diamond Door


To be tempted to stand on the Great Watchtowers parapets

Forever in the void


I know I'm now one of the misplaced but thinking of you

Gives me hope

My beloved Lucy to cope


Lost in here

Somewhere uncharted in the Grey Grounds beyond yours


In The Great In-Between


Where I now exist amongst the Nix and so many others

Unseen


Copyright John Duffy


 

 

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

A lone voice whispers

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Now my life's great party's over and this Black Hole  

I now live within 

Ruled over by Father Sin  

 

 

Which just loves to breathe me in and out 

Like the silver flutes once did 

 

 

When I used to walk by and watch the marching Bands of Manhattan play 

As the Majorettes twirled their shiny batons 

 

Oh, what I wouldn’t give in this loud sound of silence

  

To quieten this pain that still hurts the most  

Even though I'm now just another lonely ghost


My cherished memories of you will always be my Immortal Home as I wait in here to atone

 

 

I used to pray that I'd wake up free from this asylum 

In the warm arms of my beloved but now lost Angel 


 

 

But no matter how hard the memories or even how painful 

 I'll keep it as a happy place filled with all her love and photographs 

So, I just wait here 



In a hidden place found on no handwritten or drawn maps 

 

 

Somewhere 

As I flutter my white flag of defeat  

In the cold and hot heat of The Great In-Between 

 

 

Lingering by these bright lights like I was walking on the Moon 

Kicking up broken white stones 

 

 

Singing sad songs for the hordes 

Standing in the creepy shadows 



Watching me crying like a wounded King 

 

 

Come Back   

Don’t fear you won't fall 

 

 

They all chant as the Golden Bell rings 

 

 

The Crying Game needs feeding 

The eleven-inch nails need pulling out to stop the bleeding 

 

 

Stay with us 

The Nameless Things   


We who whisper and sing in the Dark all around you 

 

 

 But all by myself 

 

 

I'll try to stay alive 

Somehow 

 

 

 They can keep their Poison and Red Wine 

 Their Civil Wars 

 

 

Where even gravity falls 

 

 

Either way 

Here is my lone call 

 

 

You’ll always be my reason  

My every time  

No matter the seasons 

 

  

 

For all my rivers of memories and worn-out roads 

My heavy head and weary heart 

 

Always lead me 

Riding in paper boats


Back to you

 In this mad mad world 



Even though now everything has fallen apart 

Just like us two


Just a pair of Father Times many heartbroken sweethearts


 

Copyright John Duffy 

 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Like reading?

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Do long-deceased ghosts recite poetry in the spaces in-between?


It's rather strange seeing things you've created, sitting quietly smiling, on your bookshelf. 


Like all authors, we share an unusual gift. 


Of different degrees, obviously.


My baseline seems to stem from my beloved mother.


She was so into the unseen realm. 


A real mystic, so it must be a generational thing.


Is part of all we are, the struggles and dreams of so many fallen others?


Ancestors, lovers, family and friends.


What would you say 


If you could come back one last time


 After your final great spiritual fall 


Announcing to the living world, you still live after your end?


All my books are whispers I sometimes hear, and translate into words.


Do ghosts speak in poetry?


A lone voice whispers

In the darkness of sleep, an angel called Poetry appeared.


She whispered tales of how many would visit and pass on stories as I slept.


She whispered I was simply a conduit from the Abyss and with a parting soft kiss, she disappeared and then the voices appeared.



The following are all those whispers in the middle of the night, within a year or so, of those strange ethereal dreams.



Where strange unknown visitors suddenly appeared within my lucid deep streams.


Do long-deceased ghosts recite poetry in the spaces in-between?



And so it begins with voices in the dark.


As I sit lonely in my darkened room with my black Remington typewriter for company, in my mind’s eye a stage has appeared. 


All black save for a type of spotlight in the middle.


A figure has appeared and stepped into view.



Rugged, bearded and wearing a white shirt and a dark Mac with piercing blue eyes, he speaks.


My name is William, John.



Will you recite our stories to the world oh narrator from the lands of the living?



Who am I to say no, I whisper and so it begins.


William speaks, will you listen?


If you were worth nothing or rich beyond compare



I would still stand beside you and just try to love you



If you were scared frightened or just weighed down with life and all its baggage



I would gladly rush in to carry your burdens


If you were mad or just simply sad



I would quickly reach out with empathy overflowing with an electrifying passion to just embrace you in a hug of complete compassion


If you needed some love and light in the middle of a lifetime



I would just simply appear through inspired lines and prose to hold you tightly



Simply to remind you



All your feelings of guilt or pain are also mine


If you needed anything profound beyond my care or abilities



I would just try to simply love you


For ours is but a silent union dear reader



Free from physical excesses but entwined and spinning endlessly



Lost in the spiritual cosmos beyond time and space



Serenading our opened third eye



As we ride over landscapes of blue and green



Visiting newer realms unseen as two

Shall we begin?


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Copyright John Duffy 

Monday, May 2, 2022

Cato Speaks from the shores of Purgatory


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(A tired voice whispers from Shoel)


Did you know your soul can become so weak



From stumbling knee-deep through familiar streams of injustices



That you are powerless to fix each week



And that sometimes beauty can only be found



Lying in the total surrender to that magnificent thought



Since in the end



You can find happiness in all the weary battles you've previously fought



If you're prepared to accept two crucial things in your heart  



Number One



Powerlessness has always been a friendly stranger 



In unvisited parts of people’s karma in life



Only if you're brave and gracious enough to accept it



For there is no point in fighting it



For in the intense emotions of your internal crusades



You can abandon the very softness


The substance that offers you 



Self-acceptance and a chance of spiritual salvation 



To break free from the singing Dark Angels in the Black Parade



The other is Love



Reconcile yourself to looking for Love 



For waiting for Karma to visit the Outsiders who plague you 



Will offer little respite



No matter how long you stay up and pray hard 



In the middle of each lonely night



Look instead to create magical monumental moments 



For as long as you have Memories filled with incredible grace



Such as one of God's many lieutenants


Days of yesteryears will always appear and stay


From reflections of adolescents


Parents to Descendants and even dependants


And no matter who might have crossed over lifes threshold into here



The Great In-Between


You'll always be able to once again see their beloved face



Because as long as you carry Hope deep in your soul



Tomorrow will always



Like a priceless piece of art



Try to find a way to put together whatever previously fell apart



So as long as you have some sort of Love



Family or Friends 



Even anything curious that makes your soul sing



Then today of all days could be simply glorious



For the most beautiful things in the entire World cannot be touched or seen 



But only felt within your beating heart



Never for one second stop believing in miracles



They happen every day



In some strange way that's why you're still reading this



Hopefully under a warm sun



For you are approximately 100 to 300 million to One



I know for I've seen the biological sums



Sometimes, people are really beautiful, not in looks but in what they do



And I can see you're one of those rare beautiful people 



Who exudes real glamour through Kindness and her many other sisters



Compassion and Empathy



So here's my prayer to help you manifest your destiny



Repeat three times as you wake before walking through your life's busy gates



To be happy in my Life 


I will expand my happiness and rejoice within every single moment 



For I'm born every single morning 



From the deep sleep of rebirth



And what I do then is what inspires others 



Here on this Earth



Lord 

Wherever you are



Or whatever you are 



Give me the strength as I walk towards you



Surround me with love and light 



To help me and others get through our darkest nights



Until I see you again

Watch over us all

Amen



Copyright John Duffy 

From Grief to Love. To Life.