. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Monday, October 11, 2021

Cousin E whispers



A
s I walk alone in here


Just looking for a strange city called Redemption and a means to atone

Surrounded by whispering crying voices in this ominous new darkness

Of The Great In-Between

Which swirls all around humanity but to the profane 

All around you

It still remains today totally unseen and unnamed

I always really wonder deep down inside as I move and peruse

Does she honestly still miss me that lady in black who was never satisfied

Even though I was famous and talked about every day 

On every world news

That young war bride I once met when I toured worldwide

Who I once used to sit with in secret and in the low hours by candlelight

Converse in-depth about love life and all its sometimes painful mysteries linked to death and power

Which always used to remind me of Macbeth

As we sat underneath that magical old blackened oak tree no matter where we were

Somewhere hidden in the many fluctuating realms of the forbidden

Just connected by a portal I used to call forth by a secret incantation name after a dandelion

One of The Great In-Between's most beautiful flowers 

Only known to a few of the last descendants of those deemed immortal

From where I was born and raised in Tupelo, Mississippi

To then be known all the way to the wet sandy shores of the Baltic Sea


Am I soon to be just a faded jaded memory

A part of a now old and forgotten legacy

People come and go in your old life 

I suppose


Friendship heartbreak and love go hand in hand with something resembling Damocles sharp knife

So I'm told now I'm wiser as each day I grow older

Some relationships will seem to last forever and some will inescapably be cut so deeply by its biblical silvery blade

That no matter how hard you may have cried shedding such sad tears 

Or kneeled for hours and prayed

You'll eventually know that's why love and friendship entwined around treasured memories of others

You once so dearly cared for

Sometimes chose capriciously to slowly just fade away

But if I could only just see the face of my precious treasured memory once more 

Starting from today

I would thank the Almighty until the final day of my baptism into a new holy Jerusalem


If only he would bless me with the power and the magic of an endless Midsummers Night Dream

To once again in this darkness


Sit together and talk under this new blackened old oak tree

After I once again try to just summon her


Copyright John Duffy

Are you an Outlier?

 Are you an Outlier?


A person who stands apart from others of his or her group, as by differing behaviour or beliefs?

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(A lone voice whispers)


A long time ago

With some
Blindfolded or
Tied to old green
Wooden stakes

Because they loved to stone

Or just burn us

Just because they thought we were different

Since they lived in an unseen primitive world

Overflowing with such
shameless ignorance

We who once danced to Old Mother Moon

Or just under
The mystical Sun

Maybe
In our own woodland grove

Or simply around
Luminous fires

On secretive moors

As the cycle's of the world

Slowly
Ebbed and Flowed

Always staying hidden from all

On the mainlands
Busy main roads

We the old
Or new Poets

Pioneers
Painters 
Artists
Singers
Filmmakers

Herbalists

Music makers
Authors

Famous or still unknown

But yet brave enough to stand courageously

In front of all the charlatans and haters

We are all still
Representations of
The Old Seducers of the mind

For we are all
World shakers

We who have always walked

All those strange roads

Wherever our
Fate took us

And today 
We are all reborn

But now unafraid
To live our true way

For all our ancient ancestors now just 

Live within
Us

Just leading us forward


Is there a light
Within you too

A light

A strange beacon which is always lit

No matter how you feel

A need to write
Sing or produce something

Using all those all remembered God-given talents

Without the need for fake approvals or the old or new matrix's work permits

To truly seduce minds


To help others purge all those emotions

Which
Around us all
Still ebbs and flows

For we are all human

And so baptised and anointed by invisible hands to feel


Did you once with strength and conviction

Willingly kneel


To be thankful you were blessed before Apollo's metaphorical altar

The mythical God of
Music, Dance, Truth and Prophecy.

Healing, the Sun and Light.

Poetry, and so much more

To then stand unafraid before all to see

As you bravely whispered

All these gifts I truly adore so Blessed Be


Copyright John Duffy



Sunday, October 10, 2021

The Visitor


Entry 234

October 10th

2021



In This Great In-Between 


At this very hour at 3.45 am


Here's my account following the breakthrough yesterday


With a ghost whose image seemed to flicker in and out of reality 


As if his frequency was jammed when he appeared early on Sunday


And as the pagan brotherhood


Those Egyptian purple robed figures 


Always skulking in the black shadows


Who herald from the huge ominous candlelit monastery next door


Chanted whilst holding hands in a huge summoning circle 


Around a blazing firepit


Illuminated by blazing strategically lit lanterns


"Gathered as one

To celebrate the rising heat from our Anthracite


With wide eyes watching the horizons, on the East


We await the newborn 

Star Child


Tonight


So all our wishes can be manifested and unleashed "


 

Leaving and moving past them calling forth some strange and supernatural power


 

With the four winds rising in tempo and white lightning striking the moving ground all around


Like a Banshee screaming


Announcing an imminent death as it struck some yellow flowers 


Piecing this never-ending strange night



As I eventually stood in that salt circle 


Dressed in black while Luna rises


After completing the summoning spell 


I once found in the archive of a private collector 


A rich sidekick 

Born with a silver spoon 


Now a chosen priest 


And when our Silver Lady 

The great moon 


Parted the grey clouds like Moses from the Time of Jesus


In the Middle East



Coming into sight from the blackness


While the chanting and silence fought for dominance 


Was a tall bearded person wearing golden glasses and a white beard  


Adorned in a faded green wax jacket


With a twinkle of stillness in his blue eyes 


He spoke


Hey Mage


I have a message


Will you take it back through this sludge from this frequency to my beloved


Who still lives on the other side with heartfelt' grief and courage 


Of course 

I replied 


Here is what the tape recorder captured from that particular seance 


Amongst all that chaos  


His name was Pat 


Let us begin


++±++++++++++++++



I'll always think of you even though I've sinned


Whilst standing alone in here amongst this sombre moonlight



These are my dearest prayers sent to someone so special


Angels must gasp at your beauty 


And all I can do is wait


Hoping one day

When you too arrive



My dearest Mary Jane 

    

I know you'll be late  

For you always we're but that's a good thing 


But when you get here


We'll hold onto each other


Like we once used to do


 

When I was alive and as our souls lovingly reunite


We'll just disappear


Walking hand in hand into this endless night 

 

Copyright John Duffy


I sometimes get supernatural visitors who compel me to write. 


The urge to write this was overwhelming. 


Love never dies, it seems. 

Salute.

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

  


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(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

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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.

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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 

 

The Mage