I watch from a distance
Hiding and watching like a young Tiberius
The delirious colourful explosions of life
Love and death
And all its neverending cascade of voluptuous light and dark energy
That surrounds the newly-initiated
It is then I announce my presence in the Astral World
To their higher self
Nice to meet you
I'm Mister Experience but you can call me
The Phthirius
The emotional vampire of Mankind
Copyright John Duffy
A whisper from a deep lucid dream, filled with darkness and pain.
(A lone voice whispers)
You
All the abandoned offspring of the Khloris
Lost souls caught in the spinning vortex of the Universal Principals
Doomed and baptised at birth
To blindly chase love sex greed
Money and power as the unforgiving winds of yesteryear
Blow into the new pages of tomorrow
Where nothing seems to change
As we sadly watch down through the ages
Blind
Naked and rebellious
As the day you were given the fruit of life
Soon you will all fall before us in endless multicoloured lines
On your spiritual knees
Like the many new slaves of the Agento and worship us
The Deathless Gods
For you are so sentenced for being so reckless
And no other power in the Universe can repel us
For we are the Nexus
The wise ones
Cautious
But you
The stupid ones
Always overconfident and soon to be headless
If you don't change your spiritual ways and reject us
You'll just have to accept us
Copyright John Duffy
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When the dark clouds of despair takes us, and we sometimes will it
To lead us into the Dark.
Because we feel totally lost and unteachable
Sometimes, belief in our own innate powers of self-recovery through strength,
faith, determination, knowledge and conviction,
can help to lead us back into the Light
Away from dark thoughts and a self eventual
Crucifixion
Believe in yourself
That inner voice always cries
You can create miracles.
Salute.
Now be empowered 🙏
Smile and in those loving eyes
I am reborn
So
Faith Hope and Charity can reach so deep inside
To break the chains of a weary heart
A sacred truth I now know
For
You welcome me like the early morning lights
A Spirit
Always standing strong
At the centre of my life
My guardian and precious keeper of my lonely soul
Indomitable and so easy to find
With Faith renewed
I'll face the world knowing that smiling reflection
From within my shiny bathroom mirror
I know is you
Watching and protecting as I grow spiritually
To always try to
Push through
Amen
Copyright John Duffy
(A lone voice whispers)
As I dreamed and entered the lower levels of the Astral Realms
I passed enormous cobweb halls filled with huge silver scrying mirrors
All placed in front of old ancient soothsayer's
Strange mystics watching the world turn
And trying to influence those in control
To make it burn
The shadows in this dark cave had bright headlights everywhere I looked
Red eyes that illuminated that depressing room
As it gently hummed and shooked
Red lights from countless unknown things that guarded the once human soothsayer's
Now chained to those black chairs to try to influence the world
As they whispered low-frequency bleak thoughts back
Through their own silver semi-conscious scrying mirrors
Suddenly as all the gnarly soothsayer's looked up with huge black orbs where their eyes used to be
A light voice whispered
It was time to leave
To go back to the land of the living and to write what you've seen
So others might know that those angry voices or dark hypnotic thoughts
They think are all their own
Voices that plague the many suffering mental trauma
Are just the old soothsayer's from the Great In-Between
Weaving and whispering dark spells from unseen Grimoires
Humanity could never conceive
From New Year's Eve to Christmas Eve
Until a targeted living individual punches their ticket to leave
Only to arrive in this heavily guarded cave
To then take a seat
Beside another soothsayer and start whispering
Somniferous messages
To make a soul greave
Tell them to pray whatever their faith
For to believe in just something good
Will help to deflect the dark thoughts
Sent insidiously from the Other Side
Whose only intentions are to cause pain and endless suffering
As they start to unravel hope and magically start to deceive
Copyright John Duffy
Do you like mythical short stories
Here's one
When you truly love someone
Family friends and of course soulmates
Did you know
You give birth to a magical supernatural golden thread
Which connects you to them like happy newlyweds
That magical invisible thread may shimmer and shake
It may glow bright and if they leave
Through death or other reasons to make your soul grieve
It just goes thinner for through its acts of magical summation
If you were betrothed the chance to read the tees and cees
In your agreement proposition signed and sealed by your eyes first kiss
Hidden all the way down to the last page in that huge book
Written in the tiniest small print
You'd read a line articulated so eloquently
In a brief sentence that appears so succinct
That many would miss
Stating it will never break
Could that be the incredible justification
Why you feel perhaps compelled to think of those you might still cherish
As if under their spell
Regardless of that myriad of intense feelings
Fluctuating like lovelorn green butterflies
Around love and hate
That connection you once made
That was always foretold in the Amber Books of Fate
Is and will always be called The Golden Thread
A connection for souls who once laid entwined beyond time and space
Before appearing on Earth
And in the low hours
Said majestic things which once spoken
Gave birth to an unseen thing which can never be unmade
Even beyond that fateful day when all things seem to fall out of place
But remember this as you lay vulnerable and feel powerless
You'll live forever and will always see their many beautiful faces
For that golden thread will always lead you back to those where you feel truly at home with
Eventually to the Great Silver City
Beyond the clouds
For deep down, you've always know
That's where your spiritual base is
Copyright John Duffy
If you're grieving this is for you.
I think about my beloved sister, mother and father, everyday.
Narrated by the talented, Clinton R. Johnson.
Salute.
I once met a fire Southen woman
In the late Summer
Of the Great Uplifting of the Veil of Aquarius
And her beguiling glamour stole my soul
As she quietly appeared like a semi-clad shadow
In my desert of sacrificed poetry
Walking lasciviously up its deserted moonlit road
As I looked for new phrases whilst out on foot patrol
Bravely standing in front of all the minions
Who wanted to bury us
By writing holy symphonies
Free from all restrictions
Opening new doors to unforgettable dominions
For my besotted eyes to behold
Stories so unworthy of this world as it slowly fell into the opened abyss
As a new normal was been unrolled
Her crow hair and dark mysterious eyes
Still hold me captive
Losing all sense of self-control
From way over here
In The Great In-Between
As she crosses the portals many undulating floors
Ruby red lips and always dressed in black and gold
Looking so glorious
And each time
With that piercing single glance
She has me in a hypnotic trance
And we start the mythical Alderichi Dance
Where two curious souls meet under the silver branches
Of the Celestial Maypole Tree
To be bound together forever
To carry essences of each others golden glow
Deep inside
Wherever they go
Copyright John Duffy
We saw a glimmer and sweet sparkle
The night we met in Studio 54
In the Seventies
A night in that club that I'll never forget
The one that makes your heart and soul go crazy and wet
We saw something so special
It burnt with such an otherworldly fire
A flame we both hoped
Would burn forever and never expire
But the Leviathan and other jealous men and women
Viewed us with suspicion eyes and such spiritual violence
That we now walk the path of the heartbroken in 2022
Filled with such silence
You left me by the bridge of hopeless dreams
As my whole world fell apart at the seams
But one day I know we'll be reunited
For I'll always be your king
And you'll always be my Lola
The woman I met in Studio 54
When I was on leave from the Marines
Copyright John Duffy
Will you defeat all I am with the divine soliloquies
Of your sweet tasting love magic
As I venture alone to my designated internal salvation
To be simply reborn in its rejuvenating fire
To then stand above it all
That to which my soul was born
Tasked to seek out and call
Or will I fall into the deep ravines of histories wayside and dwindle
As the ever-watchful twinkling stars slowly spoil
As my faith capriciously tumbles and falls
Have I met you already in person
In a previous tragic lifetime
As I wandered through all its many dark halls
Or have I simply passed you by before we spoke and is this
The sour-tasting nectar of not knowing
Already written upon the laws of synchronicities
Universal walls
We both never saw
Copyright John Duffy
Art by mdangg
There is a hidden secret submerged deep inside
You all
A light of such magnificence
A divine monument
A mysterious opulence of such serenity
A reminder your soul can live on for all eternity
Even if you fall after being suddenly recalled
A precious light that is
truly priceless
A light that shines with such a majestic brightness
This light doesn't belong to the entitled
Rich or famous
It blooms in all niches
And can shine so much brighter
Regardless of what your gender
Creed
Religion or status is
If you are brave enough to still try to share it
After crossing many of societies judgemental bridges
No matter what time or year
For this light is simply a gift representing one of Gods many wishes
Are you going to share yours in 2022
No matter how hard they push or regale you
Or you might instead
Get to know what the true price of sin is
Copyright John Duffy
