. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Letter to the Acolyte in Poetry Month

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Letter to the Acolyte in Poetry Month

 


(A lone voice writes)


Some whisper and will

In secret occult circles 


About these sad days of 2025


That Humanity will fall into unruly petulant desire


Consumed and devoured by a blazing war lit infectious fire 


But what happens to you and me?


Your mind and mine 


Do you still shiver inwardly at the vibrational thoughts 

of my words 


Do they bind you

Submissively 

To always return 


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 


On the fly 

On the internet 


Wanting the warm caress 

of loquacious re-introductions


Of new verbs 


Opening mystical 

Golden gates to new poetic realms


And their 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 rapid movement or profound stillness


Sovereignty or deep-seated loneliness 


New flames of innermost desires


Contained in unspeakable 

words or unfamiliar names 


As our Zisurru


Poetic stories to be set asunder 


In the rising footfalls of Zeus's approaching apocalyptic thunder 


To burn new hurricane lanterns in the deep wells of Imaginations darkened 


Halls of Fame 


To live in the hope 

Of a new life


An everlasting dance filled with literary romance 


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 such ravenous greed


Will we survive 

Still together at the end of 2025?


With such

Intellectual thoughts


You might still whisper and silently ask 


You and me 


Does 

Will it last?


Echo in your Dream Chambers whilst waiting


For that midnight call on New Year's Eve 


When we sing pagan songs of King Solomon to each other


As we fight back the encroaching darkness 


With shining drunk Astral Eyes as our Athame


Our sacrificial knife 

Inwardly praying to then always shout


Yes, in us, 

I'll always believe 


Under the sharp eyes of the Winter's 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 new or old angel or devil wings 


As they quietly 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 


Water's

Famine or disorders


So in 2026


We can still share our much loved algorithms 


In all our holy quarters 

So mote be it 


What will be 

Will be


So mote be it


(C) 

Copyright John Duffy 




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