. Poetry from The Great In-Between: May 2023

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

A Sacred Voice Whispers

  











If today

You feel so lost

And endure so much pain


In just living


If today


Everyone looks down on you

With unkind eyes


That seems so black

And filled with total darkness


That appears so unforgiving


If today


You swim against persecution


Strong currents created by politicians

And dictators


And been labeled as


Homeless

Disabled 

Redundant

Too old

Poor

An addict

Useless 


Or just one of the many


Hidden 

Nameless 


Living below the rim 

In the shadows


And deemed to be unworthy of any Baptism of success

Because they label you as living within sin


Remember this


I too have felt your pain


Walked along those same dark long roads


I too have lived through and fought


All personal battles and wars


Until I got too bold with all I preached and knew 


Until I too was crucified 


Look up my life's story

It's still so well told


My advice to you 

Is simply this 


Keep up the belief


That it will be worth all those painful struggles


For in the end


Eventually, good things come to all those who truly believe


For in the end

You will find some form of happiness 

And when you eventually die


You will see God and he will embrace and forever remind you


He has always walked beside you 


Whispering 

Trying to give you so much strength


For you 

Him and 

Me


Have always been together 


For we were always forever baptized to be simply  


Eternal friends


Now say after me

Amen


Copyright John Duffy

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The Blues Busker Sings

Press play before reading.  Salute.



Some day 

I can only pray


You'll see  


The light we shared 

Was meant to be 


For within me too

As time shadows fall


I know within you 

I’ll stay too


Until I 

Hear the call


To walk beside you

Before the Fall


Hold your hand 

To fight the cold


To keep

That spell


Alive

Wherever we dwell


As lone souls

Yell


Some day 

I can only pray


You'll see  

The light we shared 


Was meant to be 

To set us free


Some day

To set us free


Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell


For within me too

As time shadows fall


I know within you 

I’ll stay too


Until I 

Hear the call


To walk beside you

Before the Fall


Hold your hand 

To fight the cold


To keep

That spell


Alive

Wherever we dwell


As lone souls

Yell


To keep that spell 

Alive


Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell


Some day 

I can only pray


You'll see  

The light we shared 


Was meant to be 


To keep

That spell


Alive

Wherever we dwell


As lone souls

Yell


To keep that spell 

Alive


To set us free

To set us free


Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell


I can only pray


Some day

I can only pray


You'll see 


The light we shared 

Was meant to be

To set us free


For someday

All I can do is pray


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Disclosure - Finding Sophrosyne in The Off-Limit Zone



(A lone voice whispers.)



Like wild Autumn rivers

Flowing down Williams Hill


In a midday storm 


Here in Illinois


We once ran carefree

Over mountains


And all we could see


But before we could reach the deep ocean


Of binding emotions


The Dark Well of all Creation called you home


When something crept in and destroyed our devotion


Love I now know

Is such a fickle thing 


A spiritual joy

Held in two golden wedding rings


The Devil just loves to destroy and rejoice


Like a cheap altar boy


To separate love 

Like it did


When destroying

Paris and Helen of Troy


But now that I have found sophrosyne


I no longer wallow in suffering but now let hope in


I miss you, my love


Like the Sun must miss the Moon


For you were taken too soon 


Before our love could open to bloom


Cut short by something cruel 


In that hospital room


But I know we'll meet again


For The Lady of Providence read my cards


And said 


I'll soon be back in your tender arms


So until then 

Goodnight my love


Until tomorrow 

For our true love


Transcends all sorrow


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Sophrosyne is an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to other qualities, such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum, and self-control.


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The Preachers Voice

(A lone voice whispers.)



The Secret Council 

From The Nine Choirs of Angels 


Sit on the Sacred Astral Seats

Of The Holy Hyperdimensional Inquisition


Angels from Everywhere

Even from The Lands of Kem


Gathered by The Most High 

To guide all women and men


To try to live for a higher glory


For in the end

That's all they'll be


Just another brief story

In an endless sea


Of Earth's sometimes painful history


Now will you

Listen to me


For when we embrace God's grace


Tune our thoughts

To Gods thoughts


Abandon living 

Hypnotized by societies

Crazy race


Where we feel coercion to live willfully in sin


And selfishly 

Consume all with casual whim


But to strive to reach the light


Live day and night

In kindness


To earn the good life 

The Lord wants for your


Transform how you act

For by being given the gift of life


You're under a social contract


Now go and be blessed to 

Live well



Don't just be another

Accessory after the fact 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Saul's Monologue

 


(A lone voice whispers.)


As divine gifts from so high above 


Cherish

Love first and foremost 


Repentance

Faith

Obedience 

Purpose

Fearless, and Prayer


The Seven Keys to Entering the Great Kingdom


As from below 

Look to the stars 


For hope and freedom

Wherever you go


For within each breath 

You take 


Each step you make

 

Time 

Passes


As you slowly enter 

Lord Leviticus Invisible

Gates 


And like a white feather 

From Fates Golden Bow 


Share your love  

With all you know 


But let not your love be weak but firm 


As your soul slowly learns


Let it be bold

To flourish

As you grow old 


For three times 

Twenty and ten 


Will go so fast 

In the blink of an eye


So leave some love 

Behind 

Before you die


So memories of you can last 


To be embraced 

When remembered and  told


For Father Time will soon come 

Calling


Sailing

On his ship 

Of Grey Skulls 


Like a thief in the night 


With Death 

Riding high 


Steering 

From the Bridge 


From here 

In The Great In-Between 


To gather souls 

For the Endless Cull

From every mountain ridge 


So don't be one of 

The lonely who lacked 

The Courage


To embrace 

Just something


Just something

Be it big or small 

To help their soul sing


Even though life

Sometimes seems to sting


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Monday, May 29, 2023

The Call to Uriel

 


 (A lone voice whispers)


Oh

Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael 


Angels more perfect than the setting sun 


Hear my immortal song 

And teach all children 


From all Gods 

Of every nation


The virtues of 

Right from wrong


Yoruba and

Tsovinar 


Nar of the Sea 


And all that 

Which sleeps 


Deep down below 


Tell them what they

Need to know 


And show them 

The way to go


Father of All Things 

Unseen or undreamed of 


Show them eternal mercy 

With your blessings of love 


With 

Something they'll cherish 

Forever 


And never wish to dispose of


I call to

Archangel Uriel 


Guardian 

Of The Elysium Fields 


Protect us all 

Before the midnight sky

Falls 


With nuclear war

With your heavenly shield 


As new dangers are revealed


Amen 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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The Apostle of Sin. Seeking freedom.

  (A lone voice whispers)





Watching the old world through my rust 


Encrusted Scrying 

Mirror 


My blood 

If I had any 


Would be green with envy 


For when I see couples happy 

A Baptism of Souls meeting


The lividity in me burns 

So slow 


Like an inquisitor's cruel act of Abacination 


Surrounding me within a lone cloud

From the Darkness of Hell itself 


And with a long night of

Squeals of demonic delights 


Ahead


A legion of guttural voices singing out like Beniamino Gigli


Under meager skies 

Chanting dark spells 


I now know this place 

I'm in 


Resembles Hell 


A heavy breathing consciousness 

Where the heartbroken live within 


Especially us 

Baptized to greave 


Through acts of Self-immolation 


Caused by the dark temptations of sin


Destruction

in which there is no love 

Left 


But only green envy


The price I now pay in Purgatory 

Now I've gained entry


As my eyes remain open 

With my soul praying to break free 


Now just cursed 


To just pray 

With frenzy


She doesn't forget me 

But remember 


No one alive is pure 

For we are all born 


To be corrupted by love 


For no one is one hundred percent 

An Innocenti 


For even you 


Beyond the sacred shores 

Of The Ferryman of Hades 

River


You'll sin too


It's not an accusation but a confession 


And it's why I speak 

Hoping to gain resurrection


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Sister Mary Whispers

Will you open up the brass gates 


In your soul



To the experiential awareness of Being 


Through prayer

To explore a Sumerian Vision of Eden Revisited 


To absorb the eleven tasks 


For a Post-Covid shattered world to survive 


The Long Shadows of Black Rock 

The purveyor's doomsayers 


To condemn mRNA Vaccines Transhumanism 


In the Battle for Your Soul

With silent weapons 


Created underground 

For the Secret War on You 


The Event Horizon 

Prophesied 


Where seas open up

For the skies 

To cry 


Will you pray with me

O Mighty Defender 

Bathe us in the blue waters of salvation at all times 


Keep our souls holy 

And guide our daily thoughts  


Toward you 

So that we may be shielded 


From the dark clutches of the enemy 


(Now say after me)


Amen 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Avalon Dreams

 


Although
I've now ridden on the back

Of the mystical White Stag 


Over the steep crest

The final green hill
Of Avalon 


To a new country
Down that old road


Although the Moon 
Riding high in the night sky

Surveying the stillness 


To now thinking
I'm where I belong 


And you're there
Just somewhere

Lost to me 


Fear not
For in another lifetime
Soon to come 


We'll drink some more red wine from the Sacred Jue 


And swim in Father Times

Neverending sea 


Where there are no farewells

And no goodbyes

For nothing is taboo 


For the power of our circle
Never lies 


It binds us
Eminently in two 


By an obligation that cannot be broken

Once spoken 


Into a niche 


A place of serenity

Between all worlds 


So hold strong 


As it pulls us together
To renew 


For in the silvery mists
We will be reunited in time again 


With a walk through the fallen down leaves


Of the Grieving Groves
Just you and me


To then walk into the bright glorious sunlight 


Smiling and singing 


Together
Forever and ever 


As St. Peter's
The Eternal Toll Keepers 


Golden bells
Start ringing 



(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, May 28, 2023

The Daltikia

(A lone voice whispers.)


If your hope fades 


And the world seems unrepentant 


Look for me in the stars 

Call to me 


For even though 

Where I am now 

 

Is too far to cross 


Whisper my name in any given mirror 


And I will come 


For my envoys 


The Metikia

Are within the scrying glass


Old ones with broken hearts 

Patroling the Demarcation Zone 


Between your world and mine


Black crows 

Hiding in the dark winds 

Of the 

Great Who Knows 


For in your loneliest moments 


Looking out of your life's window


Whenever you feel left behind by the world


Call  to me through my envoys 


The Metikia 


So I can appear in the shadows 


To hold your soft hand 

And together 


Endure any storm 


As the depressing winds 

Of humanity blow


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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The Babylonian Weeping Willow


 In an emotional transitional state

I danced inside 


Eyes aflame
With my synapses 



Sending electrical soul kisses

Up and down my sinuous spine


Like bites from the Australian Acanthophis 


My own Fleur-De-Lis

Blew
High
In my secret library 


Representing the beauty of life

Purity
And Holy Trinity 


Infused with the light and power of the Virgin Mary 


And like a familiar name
Carried like a secret parcel in the winds 


Of change 


Like a sweet butterfly
Kissing my skin 


Wearing a beautiful coat of stunning Summer colors 


I remembered our time together

Even though it was ephemeral 


Surrendering myself
Like a fallen general 


Thinking 


That's why love can never be cerebral

For intelligence always gives way

To emotions and instinct

Like a white feather 


And it's why I always return 


Surrendering at the ebb and flow

Of Memories rivers 


Until
The Universe closes its huge doors forever 


For true love will never be extinct 

If you're brave enough to see 


Where Memories Rivers
Goes 


To reach the place of rainbows

A truly magical emotional bordello 


In the strange lands 



Of The Babylonian Weeping Willow

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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Saturday, May 27, 2023

Luna's Last Letter

 A theme centered around wrongful persecution. 

(The Spanish Inquisition.) 

Can you imagine the horror of seeing the baying crowd approaching, ravenous for their version of justice?

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Title:

Luna's Last Letter


(A shaking hand writes)


To anybody

I can hear them coming for me 



With their lit torches and dirty pitchforks


In long queues of smelling degradation 


A poor woman in the dim woods 


It wasn't my gods and goddesses who stopped their rain and ruined their crops 


 

Bringing pain 

Hunger and destruction


I am not ashamed of my faith or my resurrection


I write and leave this note 

Under this floorboard 


So my name saunters on  

Over this crazy threshold


Watched by Achelois 

She who washes away pain


My beloved moon goddess 


Who always hangs on the horizon 


In the cold


But one day 


Under this cavern 

Six feet underneath this world 


Where I'll soon lay 

Today 

When they break-in 


In a place where sun or light 

Doesn't reach or play 


I'll rise up one day


The sun will shine again

My breath will be short and sharp 


On Judgement Day

Especially

When I kiss the dry soulless mouth of Brother Persecution that stole me 


And sent me into the Grey Sea 

I can soon see 

Appearing 


For me to swim in 

Before me


But when I return 

We'll sit together 


Side by side 

As memories of my old world 

Burns 


Like crimson tumble reeds 


Glowing and

Blowing 


As the ashes of more of his newly condemned 

Float by 


While my beloved 

Achelois 


She who washes away pain

Cries

As I once again

Whisper her name


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 



Thursday, May 25, 2023

The Writers Monologue


Press play before reaching. Salute.


(A lone voice whispers)


We and all

Our kin 


Are like the many unknown names 

Courageously written and weaved


Into

The Secret Books of History 

Many would never believe 


Souls

Mysteriously walking upon wet shores 


Of a fourth planet 

Spinning in the deepest of space


Our devotion holding us

Knee deep in rivers of love or hate 

In the human race


As if we were nearly buried alive


And with newly empowered adrenalin-filled eyes 


We witness daily

The stunning emotional explosions worldwide  


And like worshippers of rediscovered Old Gods


We try to create a new written 

Golden Age of Byzantium in words


Filled with only fine art and poetic pieces 


We 

The word shapers who hide in the wild woods of our keeps

Where we sleep 

By firelight


Until the moon rises and kisses her lover 


Father Sky

Announcing us to wake 


To then slowly write on soft pages 


In our own

Books of Red Pleasure


Stories 

To be perused and used 

By soft fingertips 


And lonely hearts  

For their own inquisitions 

And at their leisure


We will write about seeing the true face of the world 

As the Wolf Moon rises


As we lie sated 

Upon the ever-flowing Sands of Fate 


We will record

For historical footprints 

In Digital ink


How the new forms of circumscription begin


We will create unique raw 

intuitive insights 

In the longest of nights 


Creating Legacies

Which may ignite minds


To be then lit up 

Like Guy Fawkes on Bonfire night 


Heralding a new vision 

Of a twisted version of a place 


Corrupted by the Father of Temptation and the power of the pound or dollar 


To invoke sin


And as we look on 

As old empires fall


We will pray to the skies 

Like primitive tribes 


For we are but some of the mythical narrators


Eternal Scribes

Who'll never grow old 


We 

Who create a millennium of hidden stories

In time 


Simply to hijack any inquisitive minds 


They can find 


For 

We are just reborn endlessly as poets 


Writers and

Singer-songwriters today 


No longer

Residents of any known time frames 


That can seduce

And lead you into 

The Brown Fields of Disarray


But just souls sentenced again 

From The Purple Story Houses 


In The Great In-Between

To feed curious minds 


Which are perpetually ravenous for shorties


Just like you 


To explore these few words 

With an overwhelming need  

To consume 


Short enchanting new glorious stories like these 


Written by firelight 

In my holy room 


Thanks for reading and until the next time. 


Remember, it's great to à deux!


Readers and writers 

Do it all the time


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Circumscription


In this context:

Restrict (something) within limits.


A Deux 


Adjective . : involving two people especially in private. A cozy evening à deux.


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The Wise Words of the Eternal Boatman. .


(A lone old voice, whispers.)




At the very end 

When I ferry you over 


To the overrun shores 

Of The Great In-Between


All that can save your soul 



Before you cross the Red Barrier of The Judiciary 


In the middle of the waters 


Of that endless Black Sea


Will be

A once in a lifetime taste 


Of Mother Loves 

Sweet kiss 


And all those 

Intrinsic moments 


Of profound 

Unselfish kindness and bliss 


That even in death 

You will always miss 


Want some advice 


Do more good

Before you enter 


These wet shorelines 

Of

Endless raging dystopia 



While your Life's purple door 


Is still open 


To help circumvent any pain that will appear 


When you stand broken 


Since there are no more chances to let hope in 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Tuesday, May 23, 2023

From Gaslighting to Freedom


Press play before reading. Salute.


(A lone voice sings) 


Did you believe 


I was going to 

Leave


Just one of life's  

Many lost souls


Always on patrol 


Full of indecisions and strange decisions


But when constantly pushed


Full of new wisdom and newer transitions 


Oh 

How I bet you wished 


You hadn't pushed all those buttons


Told me strange stories and convincing lies


Said it's your imagination 

You're seeing things that aren't there


To help me make those 

Seemingly conquerable revisions


To finally find the real strength 

To see through the mists


Maybe now 

That I'm free 


I can grow and bloom


For those old chains are now broken 


Lying on the floor 

In our old bedroom


And I'm no longer living 

In your own Medieval Inquisition 


I'm now free from your Gaslighting


No longer unhappy or constantly fighting


No longer delusional


But walking 

With peace and happiness 


Reunited



My future's bright 

For I've seen the light 


You're now never 

Welcome


For with this song

I finally cast you out


Now go 

Walk out of this room 


Take all your suitcases

And gaslighting



And watch this red rose

Bloom


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Do emotional poems resonate more?

I think so. 

Inspired by Gloria.

Monday, May 22, 2023

The Voicemail left for Monica

(A lone voice whispers)


I know you're listening 

So don't disguise your profound love for me 


With such acts of disdain


But later tonight

When it gets late


Let my mind 


Reach out as I send it

To touch you 


Through my supernatural senses


To soothe any pain

That may still remain


To reach out 


To gently touch 

And caress 

Your inner core and silhouette


To unlock 

That secret lock


To the very doorway 

To your soul


So I can walk past all the strutting catwalks 


Filled with figures


From years and years 

Of so many well-built defenses 


Until I can see the real you


So you can give me

That look 


That feverish look that whispers

In an unspoken language 


Of a sensuous love

That will come

Calling


One that can pull you up 

By your shoelaces and coattails 

If you're falling 


One look that 

Anyone 

Who sees it 


Could ever 

Forget it


One that paints a fascinating tapestry 


Of contrasting images and whispering emotions


Painted with such striking deft brush strokes 


Capturing incredible longing and intensity 


Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

Would surely

Dance in the Country 


A tapestry vibrating with a symphony of well-orchestrated bodies 


Two

In slow motion


In late-night acts of fingertips and devotion


For true love only comes around 

Once in your lifetime


Like when Adam first found Eve


At the Dawn of Time

In The Garden of Eden 


In Zero BC


So Monica

Here's my number


07753210



Call me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Saul Speaks


I once knelt at Saint Paul's Cathedral 

And prayed so hard for true love to appear


And  

When the sunshine finally came and lit you up


Like a shimmering lake of bright moonlight


I knew deep down inside

I'd found some real magic


To carry me through 

All my long

Upcoming 


Summer nights 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Samuels Monologue

 



Like a lonely
Helpless castaway 


Walking
Lost 


Amongst inner indistinct stars in my deep sleep 


I opened my green eyes
Yearning 


To gaze upon the blue
Undulating 


Seas of Tranquillity 


Beyond fear
Reason or hope 


Looking for a new freedom

Beyond irreducible traces 


Of all known possibilities 


To try to cope
With this thing broken in two 


But instead

When my emerald eyes opened


I saw I had ventured

To soft sandy shores 


Illuminated by magnificent

Sparkling red candlelights 


A place where lost souls travel to 


In The Off Limits Zones
When feeling lonely 


Or depressed
At midnight 


And
Within this beloved sleeping state 


With a sharp crackle of unearthly thunder and lightning 


You appeared
And I saw you 


The only one
Bequeathed 


Who I had been summoning 


And as we met and embraced

Upon those lucid imagined Shores 


And held on to each other so
Tightly 


I wondered down deep spiritual paths

Mentally 


To the Nexus of all Eternity 


Past the crying Banshee
Queens 


The spellbound soul keepers of all Humanity

The Archons 


Past the forgotten
Pagan Ages of Dark Shadows 


Once so long ago cast by The Wing Makers 

From The Black Holes of Bastos 


And
Thought 

As the world around me spun 


Like a revolving glass kaleidoscope 


Will she still love me tonight

Wherever she is 


This ageless beauty I always

Seem to chase
To run to 


In full flight 


The one I once wished to live with

Until my last night 


Who still leaves me lonely and

Drowning in cold wet tears in 


In the middle of this plight 


Or am I just another nightly
Visitor 


To that magnificent seashore

I visit 


Just past the Merovingian lightning

Solar Storms 


As I dream 


Always appearing to walk

Its twisted dark pathways

Towards 


A dark place filled with self-ruination 


With so many others 


To that dam place
I am cursed
To revisit 


And dream about 


On the stroke of every midnight 


Shamballa


The Wetlands of the Unforgiving 


The Island of the Lost
In the Great In-Between 


Where Ageless Elementals stalk and hunt the living 


As they wander around
In the 5th Mystical Realm 


Of the
Unseen 


Looking for their preordained 

King or Queen


(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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The Red Rose


(A lone voice whispers)


What in more sensuous exquisite pleasure


Can ever be summoned with such a small act 


An incantation spell

Of only spoken eight letters


Called 

I Love You 


To create such life-changing endeavors


To make you feel better 


What's beyond all earthy countermeasures or oppressors


What stands valiantly 

Perpetually bare and naked


Before all lost souls 


Whose essences pleads and 

Cries for its devotion 


Its


Affection

Appreciation

Fondness

Friendship

Infatuation

Lust

Passion

Respect

Tenderness


And its other pheromone-linked spiritual yearnings


Have you too been before its alabaster ancient altar 


Said all you wanted your version of love to be


When you felt some unfamiliar virginal stirrings


Then prayed to disappear within its congregation's sway


To hold onto its secret handshake


Through its gift of a single free spiritual Red Rose 


That it always gives away


Or did you oppose

And return all its regal advice 


And dismiss all those soul-changing stirrings 


And cut up its freely offered Red Rose 


Its invitation and gateway

Its secret handshake


With your sharp judgemental knife


To put out any fires which may have started burning 

Did new lies or old emotions


Lingering like limpets

From old relationships afar 


Cause you to then

Fall


Like a wounded soldier

In one of the world's many civil wars


Did a new chance at

A Greek Goddess's 


Exotic taste of sweet 

Redemption 


Bring no

Much needed salvation


Did that new prize within reach 


Cause

Old tears of guilt or hidden suppressed pain 


To rise like a typhoon 

Without resistance


And fall like rain 


Or did you embrace that 

Beautiful new gift


That unexpected surprise at sunrise


A priceless Red Rose and caught all those old tears


In motion

And bade them froze

Before they became an ocean


Does the sentence


Love appears when it's most needed


To supersede all emotions


Even if it's once been cheated on


And will try to stay forever

If welcomed and greeted


Create something in you 


A stirring that you will never oppose


As you accept the chance of new love and eventually 


Embrace 


Its secret handshake and free gift 


Of its exquisite Red Rose


(C)

Copyright

John Duffy 


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The Song of Simon

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(A lone voice sings.)



I am abandoning 

My post today


Leaving


Outpost 4 

And walking through 

Another door


To a new place

To stay


Throwing away

My scrying glass 


Back into 

The grey rivers of 

The Dimitri


No longer afraid

To step


Into the deep blue 

Sea of Dreams


Brave enough


To swim past icebergs 

Of prosecution


For absolution 


Of all who see 

Me


Going beyond 

The Carpathian Mountains


Past burning vortexes and fountains 


Away from lost souls

Who come at me


With lit torches and pitchforks of calamity


Away from 

False gods and goddesses 


Who sow paths of destruction


To find resurrection 


In the bright lights 

Of accession


To be eternally free


I am abandoning 

My post today


Leaving


Outpost 4 

And walking through 

Another door


To a new place

To stay


Throwing away

My scrying glass 


Back into 

The grey rivers of 

The Dimitri


No longer afraid

To step


Into the deep blue 

Sea of Dreams


Brave enough


To swim past icebergs 

Of prosecution


For absolution 


Of all who see 

Me


Going beyond 

The Carpathian Mountains


Past burning vortexes and fountains 


Away from lost souls

Who come at me


With lit torches and pitchforks of calamity


Away from 

False gods and goddesses 


Who sow paths of destruction


To find resurrection 


In the bright lights 

Of accession


To save me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Thursday, May 18, 2023

The Song of Jericho

 

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Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Sing your song

Sing it strong


Don't be denied 


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


For your heart knows

Where you belong


By our Lord's side


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Baptized by all those painful tears


You've cried


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Wherever you go

Sing your song

Sing it strong


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


For The Almighty provides

Like an immortal guide


With arms  

Open wide


In which to rest  

Tired eyes 


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


And in that silence 

Reflect and confide


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho


Will you let him in 

To reside


And help combat sin


Before you join

The so many other Faithless 

Who's died


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Only to be hunted down

By the Devil and his kin


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Take faith 

Wherever you go


To combat sin


Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 


Share your light

Even though you've cried 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


Monday, May 15, 2023

Lyrics of Life

 (A lone voice whispers.)


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Hosanna 

Hosanna


Composed 

Cn every falling raindrop 


Embraced 

By all the world's many

Illuminated natives


From nearly every rooftop 


Is freedom


Hosanna

Hosanna


A song 

Sung in every wet embrace 


From every treetop 


The greatest symphony of all life


No matter how much this life hurts 


When it sometimes

 Cuts so deep 


With its emotional knife


Hosanna

Hosanna


Run wild my child 


They each sing in every teardrop 


Before your time comes 


Hosanna

Hosanna


Try to say 


I truly lived before I died 

And all my love


 I willingly left behind


I gave 

And helped so many others 

To survive 


Like it was my only state of mind 


Hosanna

Hosanna


To all

I could find


Before my flickering candle 


Blew out 

And from this beautiful life


I resigned 


From mankind


Hosanna

Hosanna


I truly lived before I died 

And all my love


 I left behind


I gave 

And helped so many others 


To survive 


Like it was my only state of mind 


Hosanna

Hosanna


To all

I could find


Before my flickering candle 


Blew out 

And from this beautiful life


I resigned 


Hosanna

Hosanna


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


 

A faint whisper


If you once felt and experienced something


Truly magical

Really spiritual


A connection like never before


Don't burn that memory bridge back to it


Leave that door 

Open


Slightly ajar


For those days

One day


After all the pain has been extinguished


Will still be some of your good days


Memories linked to relationships can be painful


But in the quiet hours

Alone


And with music playing

Or maybe enjoying the silence


You too will still remember 

Those you once loved


From childhood through to adulthood


Those once beautiful souls


Who were brave and strong enough


To smile and beguile us


Even though the sad moments 

Like a golden ritual Athame knife 


Still cuts

Deep


And maybe will make you weep


When you realize 

Those golden days may have died


But they can still live on

 If you're courageous enough


To let sweet memories and pain

Collide


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


Big Stan's monologue

 


(A grieving soul whispers)


Tonight 

I pray to dream


But here I lay


Feverish 

Pitched in a grey tent of fatigue


Like a weary soldier 

Suffering from PTSD 


Laid out 

Like a green funeral wreath


Begging for eternal

sleep


On mountains

Of sweat stained white sheets


But sleep never comes 

To climb to the summits of my peaks


So here I am


Just another lost

Soul


Crying for mercy and salvation 


Bleating 

Amongst the insomnia masses


Like a weary grief stricken sheep  


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Sunday, May 14, 2023

The Monologue of Father Bartholomew

 


(A lone voice whispers)


If I could reveal things 

You've never seen


Which is to come


Visions


Gained from The Black Books of Secreta


Here in The Great In-Between


I'd have to burn my sacred oath 

Made to Saint Malachy


A pledge made 

In The Grand Theatre of Sper 


Visions so heavenly  

So celestial 


But dark


To speak of such things

Would be treasonous

Would be to break it


But know this


The Black Books of Secreta

Here in The Great In-Between


Whisper of Darkness

Coming


The Fall of All 

You know


But also of a glorious light


To push back the darkest of nights


So wear your faith

As your shield


Pray and never be tempted to yield


For the Four Horseman of The Apocalypse


Have started to ride 

In the lower Dimensions Fields


Find a holy place 

Fill it with grace


Deep inside

To prepare


For dark water rises


For strange things 

Grow in power


As the Veil of Aquarius is slightly lifted


Even if you know

What's changed or shifted


Even if you're gifted


Dark gods have taken over the minds of some men


Now dark souls 


Who shun the powers of prayer and amen


But there is still 

A light to be found


A candle to be lit


A voice to soothe

With its profound sound


Peace to be shared

If you're open to give


As you still live


The Black Books of Secreta carries your name 


You know


Lists all you do and say


If I can read it

So can the Principalities


Hidden 

Embedded in the world's many shadows

And sideshows


So do more:


Eph. 6. [12] 


For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,


but against principalities, 


against powers, 


against the rulers of the darkness of this world,


against spiritual wickedness in high places.


Do more 

So I can help you to


Amare Vita (L)


Love life

 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Saturday, May 13, 2023

The Rainbow Bridge

 


In a deep dream

I saw an old wooden bridge


A bridge of green and blue


Filled with yellow flowers and red roses


At the front of a huge crowd of watching blinking eyes


Stood a regal black Dobermann


He seemed quite confident and approached


You may not cross here yet


He spoke 

Within my mind


These lands are for those who never forget true love


Us 

The companions

Of mankind


This is The Rainbow Bridge 


And over those ivy mountains 


Are the golden cities


Filled with happy owners and their sidekicks


The brothers and sisters of the Watchers


Who you now see

Before you


Called

The Bellagio


A sea of eyes


Filled with love 

Who'll follow you 

Wherever you go


Waiting patiently 

In this rain or snow


For their beloved owners to show


Above you

If you look


Is a mirror 

So we can see the other side


To know when their time Too comes


To prepare to be reunited


When our true love

Say their final goodbyes


For true love never dies


Only fluctuates


As one walks 

Through a new gate


We are now at peace


No pain

No anxiety 


Just happy to sit and wait for our soulmates


To cross The Rainbow Bridge


For there is no time

And no such concept of being late


Now go

Astral traveler


And recount our meeting and greetings from me and


The Bellagio


And with a low bark


He turned and walked back into the sea of smiling eyes


Who all blinked in unison


Seemingly smiling

And disappeared


As the dream started to fade


He appeared once more

Briefly 

In the trailing smoke


And whispered before I could answer


It is I 

Caesar 


I have always been waiting for you


And as I woke and wrote

In my dream journal


The beloved  memories of Caesar returned


Making me smile

That he was waiting


Now at peace

Amongst his happy brothers and sisters



Beyond The Rainbow Bridge


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Monologue of The Dream God


(A lone voice whispers)


Will

Tonight be the moment 

We hold hands





Will the Sabbath

Sunday monsoon


Call together

Our depressed bodies 


Like the eclipse of the eternal lovers

The Hot Sun and the Cool Moon


Will tomorrow

Drown our sorrows


As early-morning sparrows 


Sing and 

Dance to a crescendo of sonnets


That rings out

Like Town Cryer bells


Throughout the day

Until tomorrow 


For when true love wanes

 And desire causes you pain


Call to me

Speak my name and I will listen


Whisper those words we once glistened 

With our sacred oaths


For I know you've never forgotten


The ones hidden in those glittering glass shards of your shattered heart


Now that I'm gone

And in daylight

We are apart


For the air

Particles and atoms


Are my envoys

Above the noise


My voice lingers in the side winds 

Of the temporal frequencies


From here

In The Great In-Between


For when it seems you are all forsaken

Always remember you're safe in my embrace


Until you awaken


For I'm The Dream God

The Shadow Walker


Majesty of all the UnderLands


Stalking your dreams

Like..........


The Lord of Darkness


Just call to me


Morpheus

Morpheus


Deus Somnia

Visita me nocte (L)



(Morpheus 

Morpheus


God of Dreams

Visit me tonight)


And I'll appear

To hold your hand






(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Friday, May 12, 2023

Have you heard the call?

 (A lone voice sings.)


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Salute.



 

Hey 

Sister or mister



Can you feel it in the tiny spaces 

In your soul


That low vibration  

Calling out 


Into the middle of the night 

With a low whisper


If you do 


Look to the Wailing Moon  

It will guide you home


To my Red Sky 


Where some of my purple doves fly 

And low shadows 


Roam 


Underneath and in 

Their locked rooms and catacombs 


Follow the whispering trail 

Of my falling golden messages 


It leaves 


Walk past 

Lord Dagu 


In Spring


The leader of Those 

Who Deceive 


When their bells 

He rings


Follow that incredible feeling 

In Winter 


Like it's your life's only reason 


Hear it in your heart 

From now  

 

So you can start 

Whatever the season



For your audience grows  

In our woodland groves 


Mother 

Daughters 

Fathers 

Brothers 


Sisters and

Sons 


They 

Ancestors 


Old lovers or

Kin 


All watch 

How you run 


Standing or dancing round 

Our huge burning pyre


Waiting for you 

To crossover 


When you retire


To take your place 

In the dancing circle 



By the Endless Fire


And embrace the magic 

Of Omaru 


It's endless power 


As you dance forever 

Under its Dark Tower 


As lost voices 

Ring out in joy


Like golden summoning bells

In 


The Eternal Winds of Lauter 


As they dance and yell 

In all weathers


Now we live 

In happiness 

Forever 


Purple Rain 


We only want to dance round the fire 


In the rain 


No more pain 

No more pain 


Now 

We only dance round the fire 

In the rain


Purple Rain 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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P.S.

Prince is still making music, somewhere!

Salute.



Thursday, May 11, 2023

How hearing voices in the dark, began.

  


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Well I know you're here 

Dear listener


For I  know you can hear my 

voice 


That inner one you use to read 

Like all the of the living 


As your hungry eyes linger on each of these intriguing lines 


Ignoring your life's many compelling noises 


As they for attention pine


Shall I'll begin


So before walking and crossing over like one of the world's last wild cowboys


Through the metaphysical blue portal 


To here


Sheol of secret place filled with those who once sinned


Before being summoned like a loyal servant by a mysterious spell


A never seen ringing bell


In my soon-to-come precarious dreams 


To hear unnatural voices 

Hailing from The Great In-Between



One wet night in late September 


If I remember 

Right


In the maelstrom and swirling darkness 


We foolishly sometimes call sleep


A beautiful angel called Lady Poetry 


Crept into my view 

As I slept


She whispered such enchanting tales to my higher self 


Of how many would visit 


And pass on stories of their lives 


As they reminisced


Since those lost souls need this process 


As a form of catharsis 


They needed a friend to express their thoughts like you


About why they still grieved and wept


She continued and whispered 


That I was simply a new conduit from an old place 


We Angels called The Abyss 

And with a parting soft kiss


She disappeared, and then the many voices appeared 


From sleeps swirling grey maelstroms and mists


Voices from new and old disciples 


Trying to plead and bargain their way home


Speaking to memories 

Or of people left in their old world


Through whispers 


Spoken to me in the middle of the night 


As they tried to atone


How do I hear them I was once asked


Well 

Within a year or so, of those strange ethereal dreams


And being tasked 

By Lady Poetry


Strange unknown visitors 


Suddenly started appearing within my lucid deep streams


Long-deceased ghosts reciting poetry of love


Grief

Heartbreak 


And all other emotions one could ever feel 


When they once lived 

In the breathing spaces 

In The Great In-Between


And so it begins with tonight's voice in the dark


As I sit lonely here

In my private writing booth 


My darkened room

My den


Illuminated only by my beautiful Tiffany lamp


With my black Remington typewriter for company as my pen


In my mind’s eye 


A shimmering electrically charged stage has suddenly appeared


As it always does


All black save for a type of bright white spotlight in the middle


Like a striking beam of lightning 


A figure has appeared and stepped into the light from the shadows


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 my stories to the world


Oh narrator from the lands of the living


Who am I to say no? 


I whisper and so it begins as always


William speaks

Will you listen


I just want my Lucinda to know these words


I never got the chance to say 


Before that car struck me down and I died in that early morning ambulance 


On that so busy motorway


Just still know 

Lucinda

Before you got that fatal call


I can now express better what my soul begs to confess 


If we 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 intense baggage


I would gladly rush in to help carry all 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 



Like this 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 


From afar


For ours

Lucinda is but a silent union 


Free from physical excesses 


But now entwined and spinning endlessly


Lost in the spiritual cosmos 

Beyond time and space


Until we meet again

I'll always watch over you 


As you with our beautiful children


Alastair and Erin

Run your race 


Goodnight my love 

Sending so much love and light 


From here 

The Lands within Lands 


Only found in The Hidden Places


Copyright John Duffy


The Invitation