The Cry Of The Pagan Sorceress Queen

 

With wide crystalline eyes

Fluctuating between ever-shifting layers of happiness and fear

 

Ever watchful

With piercing orbs of tranquil blue 

So deeply captivating whispering in their echo chambers

I really see you

 

I compose this small golden trinket 

To some a tiny poem

But to those in the know

A spell to entice wherever you go

Whilst lost in the yellow sands of time

 

As I swirl through this fluctuating vortex

 

Will you read my offerings

As your minds listen to my gift of meter and rhyme

 

Can you feel that quickly rising crescendo of desire

Willing you to burn forever in my molten flames and yell

Inside internally

 

To revel in this new heaven

A means to help extinguish those painful fires of 

Such misery still found upon

Those tired old redundant roads of humanities dark traits

You may still walk on

Will you pray to me and implore for more

To push open the once locked doors between us

Shall I welcome you through my red gates

My new neophyte to sit by the Old Babylonian River to talk

As it quietly flows

Do you seek a pathway through the dark woods

 

To walk to a sacred place where you are  sensuously

 

Bathed and embraced

 

As we read you and see all those distant places

Where you once courageously visited and stood

Do you dream of entering such a safe and unjudgemental sanctuary 

Hidden within divine branches and creeks

Where you are perpetually energized 

 

To no longer feel weary 

Unloved or weak 

Do these sudden paroxysms turn your emotions

Once cold as ice to a new fire

 

I merely still ask

Will you take my hand forever

 

And be tasked

To walk past these dying embers and fading lights

Of all the world's many midnights

To a new realm 

Filled with such hushed and unexplored mortal and spiritual delights

What says you

Shall I come about two to collect you

Copyright John Duffy

Of course I know you!

 

I have seduced many within my reach

Walked into so many tear-filled bedrooms 

I’ve lost count as I began to teach

I’ve took and ruined 

So many untainted virgins to then throw themselves against 

My many green altars 

After they have been baptised by charlatans

 

Underneath my Cherry Moon 

I have also known you 

Yes even you 

If you dare to look deep

My silent reader

Do you recognise me yet

A God who has once held your hands before

One who introduced you to restless nights

Anxiety and parched lips

Silent screams of despair

Uttered oaths of sweet revenge 

Who am I you may still wonder

Phthonos

A strange name to most

Just Google it and I bet I have once been your friend

Maybe I’ll return to keep you company before the very end

Maybe we can plot revenge at all those you deem

No longer a lover or friend 

Copyright John Duffy 

A Goddess Speaks

With the last transmuted rays of this

The dying red Sun

When the sleeping Black Knight

Opens up

Its prying ever-watchful eyes

When universal illusions and worldwide delusion

Start to wildly run

And when the battle between night and day is finally won

Amongst all that crazy noise and haste

When all your mortal fears finally lie in State

Remember to never surrender your indomitable soul

For it's yours alone 

Regardless of love or hate

Don't let your daydreams go to waste

If it's happiness you seek

Will you take a sip

Of my spiritual potion

To own a drop of my sweet taste

As you slowly renew

For by facing your inner weaknesses and frailties together

Through all known weathers

Just say save me

And I'll teach you to carry on bravely

For it's how I'll create your own divine circle of safety

Now worship me

Circe

The bringer of divine powers to always encourage

To be all you can be 

Overland and undersea

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The Elemental called Misha

She came looking for me one dark fateful night 

Last June

From the very Flesh of the Lost Gods

She said

Like a magician at around two in the afternoon 

Slowly approaching with a certain swagger 

As if looking for a new acquisition

In the confines of my deepest of sleep

A dark queen 

An Elemental called Misha

Of which there is no opposition 

Dressed from head to toe in purple

Blue and crowned in green ivy

Creating such a fashionable juxtaposition 

Walking as though she was on a secret mission 

Through widened corridors filled with darkened pines

Surrounded and followed by hundreds of lines of sad hollowed out old men who she left

Constantly seeking and thirsting for her divine attention 

As they pleaded and whined

That Lady

Voluptuous and so heart-stoppingly seductive

She now nightly 

Just visits around three am

Where she begs we should stride out like reunited old souls

In indistinguishable old grey and green coats

To soar the lower levels of the Astral Realms

Striking like red spells from baptised bows

Into its viscous ever-spinning rainbows of never-ending Immortality 

Where only the blessed few may go to see its magical Desert Rose

To unspoken places where we would pass shades of long winters 

Once spent whimpering in silence for each other until sounds erupted in chaotic violence 

Leaving them adrift in the swirling smog as they are cast aside

Like deadweights in the fog of the Eternal Gardens 

As old cries are pardoned

When we escape beyond loveless lands filled with strange withering shapes 

To then stride forth like married beggars

The Alpha and her Omega

Lost on one of the Universe's many unreachable railways 

Littered with love letters

 And through its blackest of sludge

Towards the bright lights in the near distance

We should tirelessly 

Arm in arm trudge

Stepping in-between grimy shadows and the hordes of beseeching souls below

Forever bellowing and crying out in unison for all to see

To the trueness of the New Sun 

With shrieks filled with primal fear and ecstasy 

 

As we must fly to where we are appointed to be

Past the grim ashes of damnation which below us will flow 

Where we will watch the hordes like ants go hither and forth

We are destined to share the air of history for a brief moment in its long night

She always preaches

Twins souls who once dared to reach for the unreachable lights 

In another fragmented twilight

Mountains below us will dance a strange Argentine tango as we soar

Dark anxious memories now forgotten

Will lay crying below us

 

Upon Pythorus darkened undulating snake-filled wet 

Black and white dance floors

No more to rise and roar

In the distance

With hands clasped together tightly

We will look deep into each other’s eyes

 

With no signs of resistance or interference as our eyes glow

She says it's a sacred truth

And it's why she always comes around 

To celebrate the day when I know and remember that I have been found

For she feels we'll get there someday

To visit old stalls within strange celestial halls

When we are eventually recalled

The Elemental and her darkened Prince

Who soon will move together forever as one

In DreamLand

For our joining has always been planned by the Unseen Hand

And then I wake 

Always still seeing her 

Standing by the Great Black Gates as the daybreaks

As she smiles and whispers

I'll be waiting

For as long as it takes

Copyright John Duffy

A whisper in the dark

 A holy man speaks in Latin)

Cito est illud tempus quo nemo non potest amplius currere et abscondere

Nullae altae cuniculis aut altis muris te servabunt

Deus enim venit in lucem, quam semel dedit

Nocentius verum pudoris ambulationem cognoscet

Cum concentu detestabili clamores intentionum

Ubi quisque bene servatum nomen suum clamat

Nunc sanguine et dolore ablue

Iustitia et poena soli erunt clamoribus qui implent aerem

Animae vulneratae in ignominiam plangunt

Hoc multoties ante factum est

Et iterum hanc gloriosam ianuam tenebo

Omnes nocentes grave pretium solvet

Iis qui nummum aureum accipiunt in quacunque forma nova

Munus vel quidlibet aliud, quod alios mittunt ad immolandum

Corrupti acolythi aliquid tam vetus

Quod non potest esse nisi unum judicium, quod semper praedictum est

Omnes tristes animae, quae libenter AnitiChristo servire voluerunt

Sub gladio Christi merentur poni

Copyright John Duffy

Translation

That time is soon coming when no one can no longer run and hide

No deep tunnels or high walls will save you

For God is coming for a light he once gave you

The guilty shall know the true walk of shame

With a symphony of hateful cries of intent

Where everyone shouts out their once well-kept name 

Now awash with blood and pain

Justice and punishment will be the only screams that fill the air 

As their wounded souls lament in shame 

This has happened many times before

And once more I'll hold open this glorious door

All the guilty will pay a heavy price 

For those who take a golden coin in whatever new form

A bribe or anything else as they send others out to be sacrificed

Corrupted acolytes of something so old

That there can only be one judgement as it's always been foretold 

That all those sad souls who willingly chose to serve The AnitiChrist

Deserve to be put under the sharp sword of Christ

Copyright John Duffy

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The Seducer

Running your soft hands up

And down my

Warrior’s hard dark

Chocolate skin

 

You gently pulled me in

 

To

Bathe forever in deep pools

Of visceral emotions

In the forbidden darkness

 

Of irresistible pleasure beyond measure

 

 

The circle of Shadow People

Surrounding us

 

 Watched in

Green envy

By red candlelight

 

As I claimed you

With a secretive anointing of a

Rekindling of two lost souls

 

As mine forever

 

Lightning

Struck on the timeless stroke of midnight

And I followed willingly and

Wantonly in unison

 

As the wet rain poured down

On that old hotel's box

White painted windows

 

I saw it in your fevered opulent eyes

As exquisite sensuous deep pleasure

Entered your inner realms

And kingdoms

 

And as you smiled

I saw

 

That unconscious greed

For an unadulterated unexplored passion

 

That old yearning for newfound

World's golden kaleidoscopes

 

Of intense pleasure

And the overwhelming urges to just......escape

 

That I

Alone can truly express

That I alone

To you can really give

 

Now as you lay

Once more before me

 Totally vulnerable on that

Sweet bed of red Roses

 

And you begin to take off that red dress

And high heels

 

Are you really ready

 

 

To step willingly

Naked and waist-deep

In deep emotions of otherworldly sins

 

To

Look me deep in the eyes

And all your dark fantasies confess

 

For I am One of the Unspoken Mages

One of

The Masters of all In-between

 

I can see you now

As you read this

 

And listen to your whispered lines

As you revel in this newfound bliss

 

Just hidden beyond all that blue ocean

And those snow-covered mountains

 

Where I type to you

Just hidden and unseen

 

 

For you know

I can take you wherever you want to go

And you know deep inside

What is to come

 

You have been caught spiritually

 

To never again run

But to sink slowly in new rivers of

Molten gold

 

A new world unexplored world

To review

 

In treasures of just you and me

Priceless memories

 

To ignite your soul

Whenever you feel cold....

Copyright John Duffy

If True Love could Speak

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Dear reader

One day

My love

I will appear like a ghost in the night

A shadow in the twilight to ask 

With a soft whisper from The Great In-Between

As you sit surrounded by many old photographs of those you love

Looking outside at life as it casually strolls by

Do you ever still think of us

Me and your own anointed love

After all these years have passed

Now we've both disappeared back into the swirling grey mists of whence 

We both once came

Do you ever dream of soft lips 

You wish you could still kiss

Would a taste of us

Your once unquenchable need and souls only joy

Satisfy your endless greed

Or would it cause you to burn even more

For to know me is to open up the souls one true door

To one day be prepared to cherish painful memories and suffering

To run wild like a raindrop 

Through loves green fields and lay wet in sweet nights filled with such salvation

For memories are all that's left 

When Death suddenly comes calling 

And leaves you all alone 

Sitting in Griefs neverending falling rain

Are you willing to take that risk

If so

Take my hand so we can look for that special someone together

Or are we already lifelong friends 

Just waiting for that spectacular day 

Until we all meet again when it's your end

And tears stop falling and we are all reborn

In a new place where there is no griefs rain

For there is no weather 

And we can all be together forever

Copyright John Duffy

The Phthirius of Mankind

Like the Raven

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 

The Deathless Gods

 

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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Need some inspiration?

 

Just fighting a terrible chest infection. Worse I've ever felt but I'll survive.

Need some inspiration?

Sometimes in Life when things appear unreachable

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