. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, October 10, 2021

Seth speaks. Will you listen?

  



A lone voice has just whispered from The Great In-Between. 


Was I just hallucinating


As I fluctuated between sleeping and waking in the hypnopompic deep state?


Seth Speaks


Did you know the region you finally exist in after you succumb to this world


Is but just a manifestation of all your internal opinions


Or much revered or dispised beliefs of this life 


Regardless if you're single or have even been a good or bad husband or wife


The black gates of Hell are built just under the silvery gates of Heaven 


And but locked from the inside my friend


I know you're there silently reading this for I'm standing beside you


Just hidden in the mists


Especially on this night 


I've seen it all with my own eyes when I look back 


From so long long ago as I remember when I too once died


And I locked myself in due to my deep sins of lust gluttony and pride


What you believe intensely in this life and cling onto 


Will always manifest and haunt your spirituality 


Until you ask for help so your spirit guides


Can counsel and encourage you to find freedom by pointing you towards the light


They are sent by the Almighty 


From the day that you're born you know


Tasked to try to always help you find liberation 


From all those secretive burdens and heavy chains 


That you might still carry and to try to stem that endless flow of tears you may have cried 

From enduring physical or emotional pain that can never be mentioned or named

Wherever you end up or go


Well, it seems I've overstepped my mark and spoken too much 

And I must now say goodbye 


We'll meet again so don't worry


Just call for me by name if everything seems suddenly cold and dark


If you appear to end up in a Hell of your own making and not Heaven


When you too eventually die


Just say


Seth, come help me find salvation


So I can also be blessed and when I too finally hear those golden bells ring


I can get my angel wings to help me and others to freedom fly 

To forever sing and guide


Copyright John Duffy 


The voice of Raphael

  


Press play and let the emotional music wash over you as you read. Salute. 


(A lone voice whispers)


I'm a hidden mercenary

An angel 


A bringer of the 

Purple Flame


Often seen 

As a young man

Carrying a staff


But I'm just 

A tollkeeper 

And opener of occult doorways 


To secretive places from 

The Great In-Between 


Held in the 

Great Pagan 

Books 


Of so many strange

Names



One of the ancient inhabitants 


Forever reborn 


An original citizen

of a lost faraway world 


A holy city

Beyond the Great Veil


The Gatekeeper is just my magical occult sigil


Say my invocation spell three times 


And I'll appear 


To help you materialise those dark dreams of love


Or wealth 

You hold dear


It's that simple


O' Ancient One

Great Gatekeeper 

from beyond the 

Great Shadows


Hear my call and come hither forth


O' Ancient One

From beyond the Great Shadows


Hear my call and come visit me

whilst I dream 


Riding upon your great white horse


O' Blessed Be


O' Ancient One

Great Gatekeeper from beyond the

Great Shadows


Hear my call and come hither forth


O' Ancient One

From beyond the Great Shadows


Hear my call and come visit me

whilst I dream 


Riding upon your great white horse


O' Blessed Be


O' Ancient One

Great Gatekeeper from beyond the

Great Shadows


Hear my call and come hither forth


O' Ancient One

from beyond the Great Shadows


Hear my call and come visit me

whilst I dream 


Riding upon your great white horse

O' Blessed Be 

and so be it


Did you do it


The look in your eyes says yes
If you really confess

For I'll be visiting you

Tonight


In the low hours


Just after 

Midnight 


So mote it be


Copyright John Duffy 


If Santa had the Blues

 Press play and let the music wash over you as you read.

Salute.




All I've ever wanted  
All my life  
Is to feel truly alive

Someone to love me
From early morning
To way past midnight

After a white winters
Christmas 
Sunrise

But like all things
Which shimmer
Evocatively

Like much converted
Gold

It's a dream
I still hold onto
Even now

As I grow
Slowly old

Where are you
Wherever you be

Will you find me

Before I cross over
God's golden countries
And swim in its purple
Seas

I once dreamed
An emancipated dream

Dreamed I'll be happy
To parade

For all to see


I was never young

But born
So very old

I've lived a lifetime

Where my memories
And poetic stories
Will be continuously retold

But it's a lonely
Life as I hear

The hooves of the
Track Master approaching

Who haunts all things
Which currently dances

To life's slow grooves

But I'm indomitable

And will face these last
Few years filled
With such grace

And when I see
The Almighty

I'll ask him face to face.
And say

Where was my
One and only

The one to hold
Me tightly
And kiss away

All those
Tears

Wherever I was
Sad and so lonely

On that cold sleigh 


Copyright John Duffy 

Friday, October 8, 2021

St Peter.The Keeper of Keys, speaks.

 Press play and let the emotional music wash over you as you read.

Salute.


(A lone voice whispers)


Some may still choose to call me a charlatan


A new reborn follower of a contemporary King 


From somewhere so totally beautiful it's so glorious



Some may say I'm a seducer of fragile minds


A fisher of men


Who then might choose to hold me upright



As I try to bring an end to all their tragedies 



Solidified in written oxygen



Whatever the consequence  



But my message is simply this



Try to live for happiness and a loving muse



Paint touching emotional pictures through stories


Memories

Photographs

Art

Music or poetry 



Using them as your own golden lyre



And then gently lay them  down in green metaphorical fields and upon velvety avenues



So those who want to see read or even feel them 



Can never ever be refused



Try not to lament old age


 

As it tries to freeze your spiritually youthful body 

in those dark moments of living



For your soul is forever deemed to be so beautiful and lithe



And embed with a profound strength 


To swim through all deep tributaries of anxiety or walk through realms of seemingly neverending depressions


Which may seem so unforgiving



To reach a new place far from all that red pain to eventually finding 

newer beginnings



Your heart may seem heavy and you might lose hope and feel all emotions



Linked to losing happiness or love 



But look me in these eyes

Watching you

 


And within these words 

and be lifted up In Dawn’s rose-flushed arms 


To truly live



Then look into life’s deep silvery mirrors

and always remember



You have so much more 

To still give


So just know that when that grieving golden whistle blows

When that hope of love
seems to disappear at night

 

When the darkness appears


I’ll be always here
To hold you



For my message is simply this



Will you let these words breathe through you

And calm the storm inside


As I try to keep your fire alight


Throughout all these upcoming dark nights


For I hold the two keys 

To the all the Kingdom and one day 


I hope and pray


 I'll let you in 


When your astral eyes open and me

 

You'll see



Copyright John Duffy


Have you heard the Lady in the Shadows speak, in the Covid Years?


Hey you


Have you ever heard that softest subconscious of all whispers


That serenades us all from elsewhere


Insidious does it seem to call


Inner murmurs that will not give us  


Simple surrender into a restful sleep


But a curious voice instead


Slowly vibrating throughout all our mental walls


A voice that constantly whispers if you listen 


To hold on to your deep dreams


A voice that occasionally manifests inspiration 


To excite our sometimes tired eyes


To really shine and truly gleam


Some may with a false smile try to diminish


What flows throughout your fast flowing bloodstreams


Some may laugh and sneer behind your back for they haven't the strength


Or indomitable courage to try to adapt  


To swim upstream


But to you who aspire


Beyond momentary false thoughts


Daily depression and who through it all


Still cling onto seemingly crazy big dreams


Those who embrace its soft whispering dulcet kiss


May all your fears and woes slowly disappear 


As you find the inner strength to stand tall


And face the watching world


For it merely perpetually whispers


You were always born to eventually reign supreme


For you're simply a beautifully important part of an incredible grand scheme


So no matter how hard life sometimes seems


Even if your soul nightly in frustration quietly screams


Cling onto hope for we listen and whisper to inspire


So happiness and success in some form


Can eventually be redeemed



So be it



Copyright John Duffy



Thursday, October 7, 2021

Do you need a prayer to ward off the Narcissists in these dark times?

 

(Repeat 3 times for it to manifest. Salute.)


May I become so meaningless 


To all those who slander and judge


May I become so meaningless 


To all those sad souls

Gossiping behind closed doors 


Swimming knee deep

In the dark sludge


May I become so meaningless 


To all those who call me

such revolting names


Because I wouldn't comply


As their arrows of hate missed my heart and simply flew by 


May I become so meaningless 


To all the ether and ominous fields of fast-flowing electricity 


Some need to express their choice of sorrowful words 


To damage someone's else's auras eccentricity


May I become so meaningless 


As the word I 


While they all chase new lovers and followers attention 


Trying to break pagan curses bestowed by the dark queen Ragna


Before I die


May I become so meaningless 


As I see why I said no


For their anger 

I once saw in a deep poetic dream 


Is a place 

Deep inside 

God wants them to fix


But they still can't see the signs like a poor lost profit 


Similar to Judas who once looked for the truth but with blinded eyes 


Dammed them all for he never really saw it


May I become so meaningless and trivial 


They just move on to someone new


And give me a chance

To grow and my heart to renew


So mote it be


Copyright John Duffy 

Monica Speaks from beyond the Grave

 (A lone voice whispers)


As I sit alone at the worn and lonely gates of Yesteryear 


In this lonely place 


Beside one of Father Hades, many dark underground mysterious streams in his vast kingdoms


Looking back to memories of the past through jaded white painted windows 


Unafraid and lost in countless deep thoughts as I watch repressed memories 


Drive past erratically and then slowing down like JFK's tragic presidential motorcade 


Whilst looking closely at all the joyful and depressing games 


We sometimes once played


You and me 


Sadly

Eventually releasing each others hands forever as our love got waylaid


When the ungodly gossiping bands behind closed doors and on social media


Started playing loudly a crazy jealous tune and singing our names 


As our Titanic slowly sunk


I can still see


Reflected in priceless memories of your deliciously dark eyes


That fateful night on the fifteenth of November 


When I surrendered all that I am when we first made love


A magical night  

I'll always remember 


But as all things 

In my cursed life 


Everything changed as that metaphorical iceberg struck 


And our love slowly drowned in stormy seas


Crashing endless heavy waves of increasing painful disastrous luck


That seemingly infinite night we once shared


Is now torn beyond all repair 


You were once all I ever needed


And will never will forget


But as I still live in here


In these lands of self-introspection and regret in the Great In-Between 


I will always write your beloved name and an accompanying memorandum 


On  some priceless papyrus paper


Using beautiful  syllables 


In my eternal book of spells as a means of release in my new catharsis routine 


I'll put them beside other failed dreams in my notebook called The Grimore of Flunked Lights


Filled with dark distress


Where you'll forever live 


And as I sit at the gates of yesterday 


Thinking about this in the near future


Wondering through green fields of yellow memories 


Still clinging onto fragments of your beloved sensuous silhouette


Somewhere 


If you can hear me

I hope our old love 


Still in your heart, as it does in mine 


Holds forever strong with memories of us still together 


As we once danced so beautifully as time moved so slowly and life did a comical but sometimes dangerous pirouette



Copyright John Duffy 

 

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Have you been heartbroken?

(A lone voice whispers)

I'm under no legal or spiritual authority


To make any sense to you


For I now choose to just write evocative poetry like this one


Right out of the blue


To help disassemble any strands of an old irreplaceable love that I once knew


My contemporary words will help me build


A new soul rousing  empire rising from the moist grey metaphorical ashes 


Of all those depressing wet tears I once cried


When you left me standing still at that quiet railway station in Branton Peake


With a soft kiss on my right cheek and murmured a cheap goodbye 


A subtle sign of foreshadowing as our love soon after died


I may lose everything inside but like a strong sturdy autumn tree


Which loses its green leaves every year blowing in harsh Autumn winds


I'll still stand tall and wait for better days to come 


A new day where I can stop shedding a sad tear


A testimony to a unique state of mind where freedom freely sings


You see inner power isn't about how much you can handle before you break


When love walks out and leaves your heart swollen and frozen in its wake


It's about how you sustain and govern that pain but still manage to grow


After you've been so beautifully and skilfully turned out


And been the star of an incredible soap opera or popular tv show


Opened up so seductively on everyone's big screens 


Only to then be insidiously broken 


As you foolishly accept some more tainted red tokens 


Whilst standing in the shade of the Babylonian Weeping Willow


As you wear your heart on your sleeve and cry into your pillow


Whilst going through all of life's tragic emotional commotions


But soon you'll see


I'll be free and courageous enough 


To step out of the shade of your Babylonian Weeping Willow tree


And embrace the world with a new worldview


One where I'm not just another damned love-struck blinded devotee 


Totally obsessed by you 


Copyright John Duffy


A theme recounted down through the ages.

Does heartbreak cause the soul to change every time it happens?

To become stronger and wiser?

A great few questions for another piece. Salute.




Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Emmanuel's call to Phanuel the Archangel

 Press play before reading. Salute.




(A lone voice whispers)


In this everlasting darkness


My beloved Phanuel


We the tragic Fallen 


All still seek redemption and salvation and pray endlessly to be pardoned


For in this dark statue filled midnight garden


Where all the invisible dweller's in-between parallel worlds choose to hide


In just another brief mystery of time after they cross over 


Only to cry when they eventually realise they've died


Like a well-loved story written in the first mystical books of Adam and Eve


I can still remember when I once ran wildly and carefree like


Huckleberry Fin on every New Years Eve 


Into that old world's beautiful boudoirs of invigorating sin


Daring to reach those hidden dark places


Amongst the wily predators and sharks


Where even Angels choose not to play their golden harps


To help bring forth the light 


A similar place where I now lay


Where all you can do is just laugh cry or pray


And like in the eternal play of the Apocalypse of Mosis


I nowadays never breathe in fear 


For in the end 

I know everyone loses


Even those still living beyond the light barrier and multi-dimensional frequencies


Separated from our two ages 


By our misjudged actions and Father Deaths dire consequences


I currently stand in front of these Great White Gates


Of the Master of the All the Light and Hidden Places


I still whisper your secretive once cherished name


You know


Phanuel the Archangel


My only friend and hope in this ever-growing darkness


Praying inwardly it carries my silent words to you


Wherever you go


For I have now alone


Walked the spiritually illuminating but also devastating Trail of the Last Circle


Using my worn Bible as my only reliable guide in which to confide 


For I know this is my last chance and not just another rehearsal 


Since my true love still lives on a plane of existence in which only the living can survive


That's why I call to you Phanuel my Archangel


For within this solitude


As I learned on the Trail of Last Circle


That there can be no joyful magic without any drops of painful tears of gratitude 


No love without experiencing and cashing in some of tragedy's realities wet checks


For aren't we all but masquerading as beautiful pure angels that have the power to deceive  


Goodness and light enacted by skilful charlatans


Presented for all to see


But in our deepest innermost core


Those who can truly perceive 


Know the intensity of such hidden truths


And it’s why I still search these Great Lands


To find just you

Phanuel


Don't you remember me


Your most loyal servant Emmanuel


It may be a new murder by rejection


As I now knock the long deep knock


On these Great White Gates


Lullabied by the Seraphim as I wait for a response in these hidden chords of time


Listening to them ferociously singing


 Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.


Remembering when he filled me with such hope 


When after a visit for Holy Communion and I felt compelled to confess all my guilty stories


Whenever I tried to repent after committing another love crime 


But like all the dark mysteries 


Connected with the Holy Grail


Maybe this time around


I won't just fall on my badly bruised knees


Buckle under and fail


Only to then turn back and run into the familiar welcoming darkness


Maybe this time around


You'll appear my beloved Phanuel


To slowly open up these Great White Gates and lead me away


To a new life filled with a newfound love of redemption and eventual salvation 


A place where I can live in peace and tranquillity for all eternity 


Phanuel

Please hear my call


Copyright John Duffy


Archangel Phanuel is known as the angel of repentance and hope.


He encourages people to repent of their sins and pursue eternal relationships with God.


Which can give them the hope they need to overcome guilt and regret.


Salute.

Monday, October 4, 2021

The Song of Lysander

 


Like the old gods
Sleeping under the sea's

We pray to the skies
So it will be

To spirits of family and friends
All around us

Unseen
Circling free

We look to the skies
So it will be

To the shadows
Hiding our dreams

We beseech the night
So it will be

To the emotions
Unleashed
Setting us free

Through corridors
Of mind
We look within

Finding strength
So it will be

Like the old gods
Sleeping under the sea's
We pray to the skies

So it will be
Blessed Be

Copyright John Duffy

The Voice at 4 am