. Poetry from The Great In-Between: June 2024

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Have you ever or even now, had a pen pal?



Have you ever or even now, had a pen pal?


Before you answer read the definition of pen pals.


If you regularly exchange letters or read some, (my opinion) 

Aren't you exchanging a form of a spiritual letter?

With a stranger like me whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on their exchange?

Salute.


Pen pals (or penpals, pen-pals, penfriends or pen friends) are people who regularly write to each other, particularly via postal mail. 


Pen pals are usually strangers whose relationship is based primarily, or even solely, on their exchange of letters. 

Source: Google


The Pen Pal Letter to Elizabeth Charlemagne 


Some whisper and will

In secret occult circles 


About these last days of 2024

That

Humanity will fall in unruly petulant desire


Consumed and devoured by a blazing infectious fire 


But what happens to you and I

Your mind and mine 


Do you still shiver inwardly at the vibrational thoughts 


Of my words

Do they bind you

Submissively 

To always return 


Like Anne Cécile Desclos 


Doomed forever 

To hovering above my prose 

That screams to be heard


With wide eager eyes

Like a love-struck 

Hummingbird 


Do you still tremble like when we first met 


Wanting the warm caress of loquacious re-introductions

Of new verbs 


Opening mystical 

Golden gates to new 

Poetic realms


And their irreplaceable guile to bind us together 


Like love-struck Siamese twins

Creating welcomed sins 


Of dried sweat and sweet tributaries


Of deep-seated spiritual yearnings 


That makes your mind 

so damn wet 


Tales of the supernatural 


Light and darkness 

Filled with movement or stillness

Sovereignty or loneliness 


New flames of innermost desires

Contained in unspeakable 

words or unfamiliar names 


As our Zisurru


Poetic stories to be kset asunder 


In the footfalls 

of Zeus's approaching 

apocalyptic thunder 


To burn new Hurricane lanterns 


in Imaginations darkened 

Halls of Fame 


To live in the hope 

Of a new life


An everlasting dance

With a drop of a wild transmigration 


As our new Nexus 


To savor in your mouth

Like an intense-tasting holy communion wine


A strong touch of such wantonness  


Your 

Voracious soul needs 

To carry to all empires 


You may visit 

In the North 

East

West or South 


As it swallows new 

Stories with ravenous greed


Will we survive 

Still together in 2025


With such

Intellectual thoughts


You might still whisper 

and silently ask 


You and me 


Does 

Will it last


Echo in 

Dreams whilst waiting


For the midnight call on 

New Year's Eve 


When we gather to

Sing pagan songs of 

King Solomon 


As we fight back 

the encroaching darkness 


With shining 

drunk Astral eyes 

as our Athame


Our sacrificial knife 


Inwardly praying 

to always believe 


Under the sharp eyes 

of the Winters Midnight Sun 


Which for so many lost souls 

We know 

She will still shine


Ever brighter 


As she quietly watches 

and grieves 


As they collect 

their angel wings as they leave


Who knows my child 

Everlasting hope and

Peace could arrive as one


So we could conquer this new normal and continue to rise


Or it could all go wild


And turn into a new dark nuclear history 


Where dreams and people 

Are consumed and defiled 


As good and evil 

Battle for victory


And apart 

we may have to survive 


On mean streets 

As quantum tattooed vaccinated slaves 


Or unvaccinated exiles 


In a New World Order

Called a Fool's Paradise 


Without

Any known borders 


But either way 

know this


May your spirit guides 

Lead you to continued health and safety 


Across all fast-flowing political wars 


Waters

Famine or disorders


So in 2025 


We can share our much loved algorithms 


In all our holy quarters 


So mote be it 

What will be 


Will be


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

The Warrior Queen



(A lone voice whispers)



There once was someone so special


A warrior queen 


Who held my heart in her hands


My own goddess and red devil


The most beautiful woman I've ever seen 


Oh, we loved slow dancing through words and intimate prose 


Like it was the last song of the night


Played by the Duke Ellington big band


In our favourite bar

Where everybody goes


Oh how nostalgia haunts you 


Stalks you

And tears you apart 

When their gone


And all you're left with

Are those sweet beloved memories 


Of big bands

And soft hands 


Goddesses and red devils


Of someone 

So special 


Who no longer holds your heart 


In their hands


For they've been called home

By the Great Primaeval


To listen to new sounds 

Played by Heavens big bands


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Monday, June 24, 2024

Hakim. The Gatekeeper from Esagila.



(A lone voice whispers)


In ancient Babylon 


I once stood alone and mixed fire 

Iron and clay 


All day 


Creating a spell

To entice 

My only light 


To come my way 


Sent merchandise of gold and silver 


To her

The Pythoness of Endor 


Hidden in dark woods 

Over the deepest of rivers 


Bundles of finest fresh linens and purple silk 


To satisfy her and her ilk


Citron wood and every kind of object 

I could ever find 


Made of white ivory and black marble 


Whenever I could 

No matter the expense 


Incense sticks

And scented Egyptian Candlesticks


Made of expensive Frankincense 


Delicious crates of red wine


Bamboo baskets filled with white flour and yellow wheat 


Fields of fat cattle and herds of baying sheep 


Priceless trained horses and golden inlaid chariots 


New slaves of broken souls


Lascivious ladies and ravenous men 

To do her bidding 


Even acts of depravity

Linked to the forbidden 


For the fruit of my soul

And to be joined to her again 


A bright light I once saw 

On a seemingly endless night 


But in the year 323


When my leader

Alexander the Great 


At only 32

Died and was eternally set free 


In the opulent palace of Nebuchadrezzar 


She


The lady of the wild woods 

The Pythoness of Endor 


Cursed me to chase her

Forever 


The Queen

I once conjured by fire Iron and clay 


So today In the 21st century 


Her I still chase 

Since eternal life


Is now my only penitentiary 


My only great living version 

Of Babylon of old 


When I desired to sire  

A queen I once met 


Dancing 

The Raqs Sharqi 


So fiercely 

That her raw beauty 

I can never forget 


Adorned in soft crimson and glittering purple linen 


Clad in silver


Wearing gold and shining diamond stone earrings 


Reborn into the likes of Badiaa Masabni 


It's why I still chase her 

If I could confess 


For underneath 


Beneath all things linked

to trying to achieve immortal strength 


It's why now 

To seek her out

Once more 


I always choose to break free  

From the external grip


Of The Valley of Death 


(C)Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, June 23, 2024

Political Obsession

Throughout history, those obsessed with gaining power litter history books.


Blinded by ambition, they usually sacrifice, lie and gaslight their way to the top.


Looking at politics today, do a good few still drink or seek a sip


Of its all consuming wine?


Who do you think is the next dictator, who will go down in history?


Title:


Political Obsession 


Like a sad scene from Macbeth

By William Shakespeare in 1606


Do those seeking control

Suffer cognitive decline 


As they drink or seek a sip

Of Dictatorship Wine

To get drunk 


Totally obsessed with political ambitious tricks


While seeking powers 

Absolute taste


As the world around them 


Where innocent people die in huge numbers and social economic structures 

Collapses


Quickly going to waste 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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The reason for the first two images:


USA holds so much power in the world and influence.


There is no reflection on the two personalities in the images.


Just a reflection of the many society posts on social media.


X (Twitter), YouTube and other prominent channels.


Moral of the piece.


Let’s find a way to stop bad actors taking office and learn from the past.


And if we do have someone bad in office, find a better way than war and aggressive confrontations, to remove them.


Or the past could repeat itself.


Salute.


 

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

The Apostle of Sin. Seeking freedom.


 


The Apostle of Sin. Seeking freedom.


(A lone voice whispers)



Watching that old world burn

I once knew


Through my rust 

Encrusted  blue

Scrying 

Mirror 


My blood 

If I had any 


Would be green with potent Invidia's envy 


For when I see couples happy 


Strolling

Hand in hand


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 of Darkness and Desolation itself


From the 9 Circles of Hell 


And with a long night of

Squeals of demonic delights 


Ahead


A legion of guttural voices singing out and yelling 


Like a young Beniamino Gigli


Under meager skies 

Chanting dark spells 


I now know this place 

I'm in 


Resembles Hell 


A heavy breathing jealous consciousness 


Where the heartbroken live within 


Especially us 

The Canti


Baptized to grieve 

In The Golden Church of Flagellation


Through acts of Self-immolation 


Caused by the dark temptations of sin


A slow evisceration

A destruction in which there is no love 

Left 


But only green envy


This is the heavy price I now pay 


In Purgatory 

Now I've gained entry


With my eyes remaining forever open 

For I no longer sleep


With my soul praying to break free 


Now just cursed 

To just pray and weep

With frenzy


She doesn't forget me 


But remembers

No one alive is pure 


For we are all born 

To be slowly corrupted by love 


In any form


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

Seeking a place 

To be moored


It's not an accusation but a confession 


And it's why I speak 


Hoping to gain resurrection


For I still

Miss her


My first immature love from school 


When I lived in

Lumpur


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Monday, June 17, 2024

entatio (L) Temptation; trial.


 Press play.


Title:


Tentatio (L)

Temptation; trial.

 

(A lone voice whispers)


Belial


Came to me late last night

Just after three 


With Faustian promises

Of riches

And such auspicious

Delights


But as I prayed while he talked 


As my faith 

Shimmered but never 

Once swayed


A beautiful bright light

Suddenly appeared

And came my way


A soft voice

Spoke gently and 

Held me hypnotised 


As it whispered as the tiny molecules of golden light


Which surrounded its form


Defeated the encroaching darkness 

In every way


Listen not

To Belial 

The Lord of the Flies


But to me

The divine messenger 

From the Most High


Bend thy knees 

And pray 


Follow my decrees


Belial might promise you 

Promiscuous sins of

The flesh


Riches

Beyond all the eyes 

Can see


I simply offer freedom 

Beyond this lifetime 


A rebirth 

On the silvery shores and golden cities


By the blessed Holy Sea


Be careful what you wish for and choose 


You hold so much

Which you could so easily 


Lose


As the clocks through midnight ticked


As each soothing voice echoed deep


Within the many recesses 

Of my mind


I came to the realisation 


What my choices will cost


Resisting temptations 


I chose to make in this lifetime


I'll accept as payment 

When it's called

In time


For all choices I chose to make 


Will only be mine 

Free from the trials of temptation


As I played my earthly role


Every step I make

I will pray and stay in control


For I now 

Know 


I have something too precious to lose


My eternal soul which doesn’t want to wander 

forever lost 


In the Bad Lands 


Of Belial's

Burning Black Coal



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Sunday, June 16, 2024

The Cursed Writer

Am I cursed like Orpheus?


To just wander through life

Wasting my time


Cursed by the three crones to now write rhymes 


 For just you


 For only

Two invisible pennies

 Or dimes


 Because my Goddess 


 Divine 

 Has called

 In all my sins


 With this as punishment 


 For all my eternal crimes

 Every night

 Or at the break of morning 


 I'm now doomed

To write


 Sometimes 

 In darkness 


 Sometimes in light

 Writing for my soul


 For my freedom 

 To really see


Unlocking old mysteries

Within me 


Using secretive newly found keys 

To mysterious occult doors


To traverse through 

My inner kingdoms

As I now speak to you


The silent viewers


Hiding cleverly amongst life's many moors


 Hidden in the vastness of 

 The Universe 


Or simply forgotten kin

 Or quiet fallen watchers 


 Parading silently

 Through my paradigms of words or simply perusing 


 In my inspired biosphere 


 Am I but one of the many cursed


 To walk at the front or simply following


 Coerced beyond belief 

 To seek continuous relief


Is that why I always now write


For sleep doesn't come easy 

Walking these precarious tightropes


At midnight


Filled with such unknown delicious 

And sometimes devilish 

Mysteries 


 Now cast me

 My two invisible pennies 

 Or dimes


 As I serve my penance 

For my earthly crimes 


 For my otherworldly experiences as you read

With unrestrained greed


For all our crimes 

Are to be judged by our own Head Watchman 


Our own judge and jury

When it's our time


And it’s why I now saunter through life


Perpetually seeking salvation to be un-dammed


Before I meet

The Tall Man 


Copyright John Duffy

Beloved Memories

We come in the dark

Shot like silents arrows

To the heart


For excessive memories about us

Leave wounds

In the flesh 


That can never be suppressed 


Even if it causes pain

When that invisible dressing


Is undressed


Copyright John Duffy 


Saturday, June 15, 2024

Lost Love

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 Foundation of the piece:


Have you broken up with a previously strong relationship, only to get back together, to be stronger than ever?


Title:


Lost Love 


I had to let you go


Bet you 

Didn't know 


For if you really

Love someone 


You sometimes 

Have to set them 

Free


If she loves me

Maybe she'll come back


She'll knock on my door

With her sweet kisses and touch


Whisper

She still loves me 

Too much 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


A lone ghost whispers

 A lone ghost whispers


Surrounded by these

lit white candles 


As I sit here 

In this great stillness 


Filled with such proud grace 


Allowing soft tears to glide like the Egyptian Nile

Crocodiles


And

embracing the sentimental  comforting sanctification 


Of the salty water

Washing gently over my face 


I bind my mind to meeting you 


On that unforgettable afternoon 

Last June


You wore Gucci 

In black and gold and matching leather expensive bag 


The new moon whispered of such new beginnings 


But now 

When I see myself in this ethereal two-way smoke mirror 


I always see the tragic shadows of that old life and how it suddenly ended


Driving 

And smiling going home 

Then that deer jumped out 


As I stopped breathing and my heart surrendered


My Funeral 

The wake 

Then the silence 


As my name slowly receded from your worlds auditory radios 


We in here 

Listen to 


For our name being spoken 


To remind ourselves we are still remembered 


And I thank you for calling to me

For total silence means we are forgotten 


As so many sadly are 

When people get busy and all you are 


Is a familiar name at Christmas or on your birthday


So now I wish to stimulate that silence 

Reinvigorate it 


Into such a vibrational state

That our old devotion


Loveliness and harmony 

Reaches you on Monday 

Our first anniversary


Allowing myself to find the space and grace 


To slow time down and reconnect 


While sending my manifestations out to take effect


I wish to spread our old love 

Like the beautiful scent


of Jo Malone's natural Bees

Coconut and Soy wax


Unto others 

Through this two-way scrying mirror 


To those from my old life

Who still calls to me 


Sometimes 

In the great silence


On our interdimensional radio


In the hope that they too will feel our once-treasured love magic 


Before it all ended 

So tragic


And through them 

She knows I still miss her


So praising the four elementals 


Earth 

Air 

Fire and Water 


For their incantations to cross the constellations 

And create Way Stations 


In the hearts of others 


Sealed with these soul-lifting revelations


I now blow out these twelve white candles 

Lit before me


Dry my eternal eyes

Stare out into the sacred space between us


Releasing the intentions of my now still grey heart into the wild 


Thinking of you 


A red rose in the concrete 

Who always appears before me 


In black and gold 


Standing before my mirror as a living child in exile 


Slowly 

Alone 

Growing old


And with these words 


Ego semper amorem meum exspectes.


Ita fiat fiat 


(I'll always be waiting my love.


So mote it be)


I go


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Thursday, June 13, 2024

Need inspiration?


 

Own me. Control me.


 Title:


Meum

Imperium

me


Ita fiat illud

Be (L)


(A soft seductive voice, whispers)


In this

The darkest hour


In the Great Pit

Where I wield 

Total power


Sitting beside

IT


Read this 

In this very moment

Silently and patiently


For your soul

To be deliriously deflowered


Meum

Imperium me

Ita fiat illud


Be (L)


By me


The Un-Hallowed Queen

Of all sinful slaves


Just lurking

Tonight


Like a funnel-web spider

Waiting to bite


From the Great In-Between

When The Black Gates open


And I am allowed 

In


Meum

Imperium me

Ita fiat illud


Be (L)



Copyright John Duffy


Latin translation since I know you read the open invitation: 


Own me

Control me


So mote it

Be


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Like all things, duality exists in poetry.


Duality introduces us to things having two parts, sometimes with fundamentally different meanings.


Similar to peace and war, love and hate.


Good and evil. And so on.


And as poetic and romantic as poetry can be, it too can have two sides to a metaphorical

coin.  


Light poetry and dark poetry.


While exploring themes linked to the darker aspects of the human experience.


From the macabre, personal suffering, death, and other dark themes. 


A few renowned poets still resonates today.


If one seeks to deep dive into the mysteries of the human condition.


You may wish to enter their realms and visions.


I've just listed a few below for the inquisitive.


Salute.


Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)


Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)


Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)


Anne Sexton (1928-1974)


Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)


Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


Tuesday, June 11, 2024

The Letter

 


The Letter



Mon Cheri


We had a good time while it lasted 


Just remember that


Remember I took your soft hand in the mist


Tried to kiss those soul eyes with a touch of intimate bliss


So now 

Just think of me like this


Like it was a holy Decretum


Think of me like a loose-leaf blowing in the winds of time 


Who once landed on your white window sill


Like a feather sent from heaven


And brought you 

A brief sense of freedom 

Through exchanging rhymes 


For we were briefly baptized by those who never cry


Before the winds of time

Picked up


And the Leviathan's lightning

Struck


So saith 

I


The bold poetic profit


Walking in rivers of deep reeds


Followed by the great dragon that lieth in the midst of so many swirling rivers


Where I'm sent

To appear like a leaf


On a window sill 


To help another swimmer 

From becoming a marked sinner


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Profit as in benefit


Benefiting from helping.


The phrase "mon chéri" is French for "my darling". 


All poetry is open to the readers interpretation.


So I added these notes for clarification.


Thanks for the questions.

Salute


Sunday, June 9, 2024

Monologue of the lone poet

 



I first met you in my childhood


In the library 

And I can still remember


When I used to look out of that bedroom window


While reading Shakespeare 


When I was younger

Just thinking about you


Madam Poetry 


I think you already knew

That deep down

I've always known you


Maybe we're starstruck lovers

Who knows


But

My mind even my family and friends

Now that I'm older


Constantly still send me cryptic coded messages

Warning me to always resist


To step outside 

Into the real world 


To try to convince me to forget that you even exist


But I always listen to my higher-self


And write


As it knows strands of an ancient greater truth


That still today persists


You injected yourself into my humble existence


In a subtle but quite mischievous way


Stimulating me to look inside and analyze myself more


No matter what other folks may ratify to think or say


What they didn't know though

All their words of unwanted advice


Just expanded some more of my repressed emotions


To but dream even more of us


One day,

Swimming together in poetic emotions 


Bluest of oceans


I can't quite comprehend what to deduce of you


Or even to think whenever I smell that familiar old scent of your favourite perfume


Called Stanza 


As I remember

The last time I saw you a few years ago


When you walked through my minds front door


Narrating wild themes linked to propaganda and extravaganza


To be read from here

In Kansas 


Worldwide and Uganda 


Whenever I hear your name


It just drives me crazy with continuous questions


Linked to poetic stories 


Thinking if you could give me the one


I once prayed and asked God for


Maybe that's why I'm just blindly drawn


Like a moth to a burning flame


For you were always so striking compared to so many others


Did you know

An old recently deciphered occult truth


Found hidden deep inside a centuries-old Azerbaijan cave


In a scroll


Simply stated

when translated from Aramaic


Poetic Love is like a huge red blanket

For when it covers you


Your four most primitive of emotions


Happiness sadness fear and anger


Can feel totally smothered


With only brief bouts of feeling tranquil 


When expressed in Poetry's secret language 


Maybe that's really how I feel


Laying here

Thinking about you and wondering


And writing 


Is this what other poets feel


A true calling to rejoice in a love above all 


That's real?


Copyright John Duffy

Purgato Whispers


 

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Does falling in love change you forever?

 


From the silence of adolescent or mature emotions, rises a wild crimson and purple phoenix, crying for you to climb on her back.


For the ride of your life.


The ride may end in you falling off heartbroken or clinging on with happiness.


But a question still lingers like the sweet dulcet tone of a church bell been rung;


Does Love change you forever?


Like a tornado


Destroying my perfect life


I fell into love


Copyright John Duffy 

#Senryu

#575


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Friday, June 7, 2024

Have you got a true friend to whisper this to?



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Halcyon Dreaming


 Halcyon Dreaming


With the unpredictable rise of AI


And its many levels of intrusion, into both business and personal life. 


Do you wish sometimes


You could just escape to somewhere less tech-obsessed? 


A haven with old black

Remington typewriters


Pens


Verbal communication

With others just like you


Deep discussions of poetry


Love and heartbreak

Linked to societies plight


In campfire lit nights


As your children enjoyed the great outdoors


Safely


Lured away from gaming platforms


As life long childhood friendships are formed 


With unrestrained laughter 


Safe in the knowledge 

They don't have to compete or fight 


A bubble within time

When the good old days


Like those you once had the privilege to enjoy


Weren't tainted by social media or crime


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 





Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Atonement Dreaming

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Atonement Dreaming


(A broken man sings as the sunsets while nature pauses and listens)


Loving You

Is still so easy


The husky voice 

That sweet smile


Lighting up my life

With your Love


Like lightning 

For a country mile 


As it still frees 

Me


So when my sun finally sets


And my tired eyes 

No longer 

Need to get wet


As I take my last breath

I'll remember 


Loving you was easy

And why it still frees me


The husky voice 

That sweet smile


Lighting up 

My life

With your Love


Like lightning 

For a country mile 


And that's why

I'll always 

Love and remember you


For your love

For a guy like me


Will always echo

Into eternity 


For loving you 

Is still so easy


For your sweet love

Once helped 

Save me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

 

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Sunday, June 2, 2024

The Voice of Malachy


 The Voice of Malachy

Do you
Sometimes need 

To
Go deep 
To the Eternal well 

To use and meet the 
Mother and Goddess 

Of Poetry
And feed her

With hand written pieces of your pulsating soul

In quiet hours

To be given
In an exchange of transmuted powers

Contracts of Redemption

To embrace a deliverance from sin and to find freedom 

From all strands of captivity

In whatever forms

So your soul can be
Healed cleansed and transformed

To once 
Again 

Flower with salvation 
As you bravely 

Walk through any storm
And grow

I can only hope and pray 
You do so

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

The Monologue of the Enlightened Soul

(A lone voice whispers)



When you take a physical form in this plane of existence 


In time and space


You also manifest an astral body


To help you run your race


In Kashmir Shaivism 


We call it puryashtaka rupa which is Sanskrit


In case you didn't know it


And just like the physical form


Your astral body has the same nervous system and these nerve currents are called Hita Nadis


And within these nerve currents pass the true beauty of you 


Your 

This is me moment

Like spiritual electricity 


Saving every moment of your life ready for your next incarnation 


For when it's time to reincarnate


We never die you know

We just walk to a new gate


And all that stored information is used in your update


For you become what your consciousness


Or subconsciousness 

Craves or hates


For you and you 

Alone 


Are the creators of your own heaven or hell


Creating 

Traumatic or ecstatic situations 


For your soul to grow and be ready for a better time 


In the next round


So 

If you're going through a hard time


Are lonely 

Unloved

Or feel weary 


Don't worry 

It will soon get better 


Good times appear when you least expect it


And like a rainbow


Your life will soon shine

With a multitude of colors 


Everywhere you go


Just remember Perseverance will be your eventual deliverance


And if you're having a good life


Are loved

Happy and content 


Smile 


Your struggles and kindness paid off in your previous life


Wherever you came from or went


In ending 

Don't take life too serious


You will get another chance 


So fill your puryashtaka rupa


In this life


With as many incredible moments as you can


Help to be kind

When you can


Live with any form of love

You may find


And maybe the One'ness


Will reward you

In your next lifetime 


For you 

And only you


Are your soul's

Producer


For when you come back

Do want a better life


Or a hard one that could lead to an early heart attack 

 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


 


 

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Apokalypsis Visions


While hearing about the US in particular, giving permission to Ukraine, to strike deeper into Russia territories.


Are we, as a society, on the threshold of nuclear war?


Apokalypsis Visions


(A lone voice whispers)



A symbolic door stands unopened


That leads to the destruction of liberty of the mind


To the birth of megatons of mushroom clouds of death and bright white light 


And never-ending darkness 

Left in its tide


A door trying to be opened by secret cabals

With spear tipped lies 


A doorway to rows of dirt ridden coffins 


Of all races 

And rows of freshly graves 


For the left behind 

To dig


A passageway to bullet filled skies exploding in a rain of pain


Night and day


A new place where good people turn to ash grey and millions get glazed


A time of no call from on high


As weeping cries

Fill thunderous skies

All this I saw


An emptiness growing and while burning buildings fell


As multitudes of new singers yelled


Alguien nos salve

Alguien nos salve


(Someone save us)


In all that madness 


I saw a tiny smouldering home 

In the rubble


With a yellow plaque

On a burning wooden door


That read and spoke of hope 


It said


Trust in the Lord

He knows your struggle


And as that burning building burnt


As the smell of destruction and chaos swept the land


Announced by drumbeats of fear that shook concrete flowers 


Trying to grow in mounds of little dirt 


A vision was shown 

With such power


My brain hurt and

This I leave you with

In ending 


At the brink of that ungodly hour 

When seas turn from blue to red 


As black skies

Fills with souls of the dead


When violent storms and hurricanes wed


Mankind will be backed into a carefully planned trap


Mapped by those who care not of peace 


With no shame

But with a new world to gain


Names once told

Outlining this 


Familiar to the herd


Now drift like lone icebergs in the cold


When wicked crones 

Fly death bringing drones 


When white flags

Carried by Banner men 


Go into smoke ruined cities

Pretending to show pity 

Turn up


With cages 

Ready 

In tarpaulin covered trucks


Know there is still hope


For even though countries stand


Hand in hand 

Led by the Cabals

Marching band 


Singing battle songs of war and glory


Behind that metaphorical door 


Hope still

Precariously lives 

With so much to give


Beyond the warm embrace 

Of the ash clouds and death of so many races


The coming of Banner men and their hidden cages 


And a new black sun


For you must march and pray for peace


Pray that door isn't opened in the Middle East


For the cost 

When all is lost 


Will be like in 

The Book of Revelations


But like always 


With a belief beyond the reach of the seven-headed beast


Light will always defeat darkness


For it's what all faiths

Preach for


In the purity of the soul


When engaging 

With their version of the supernatural stillness 


About that metaphorical door


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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