. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Writers Monologue

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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