. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Channelling Eros


 **Lord Eros Speaks**


(A lone seductive voice whispers)


Why must the soul within you all


Constantly seek out momentous soul-defining emotions 


Require it so damn deep

Sometimes foregoing sleep


Covet and desire extraordinary sensations to rebel wildly within


To show the many tragic watchers

Hiding in society's long midday shadows 


Those who fear that uncontrollable need to follow


That unconscious craving bound to sinful bargaining with me


Lord Eros


Which could ultimately destroy all they know like a raging volcano 


If my rosy pill called Ecstasy

They wantonly swallow  


Whilst lost in the throes and acts of physical thoughts 


Linked to carnal sin



Where in their soft arms 


We 

All things biological and spiritual linked to love 


Forever embodied in such as me


Sensational 

Uncivilised 


Unconventional and uncontrollable feelings which could eventually burn or break one in two 



Is that why my gift of devotion is such a powerful tool


For the Beguiled

The Abundant in humanity who throughout all eternity 


And even to this very glorious day

You call Sunday


It still wonderfully and eternally fools

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Monday, February 14, 2022

The voice of Nicodemus

(A lone voice whispers)


There are some cruel strange chippetoes out there


Who'll wear your darn heart straight out of your chest 


But like black needs light 

And day meets night


You'll also meet some great people 


Who'll try to sow up your frayed tired edges

With some good old fashioned love and light


If you're blessed 


Like all those honest folk named in the hidden pages of your version of the good book 


Whatever your faith 


For good people are everywhere 

You only have to learn where to look 


Copyright John Duffy 

 

Valentine Memories


**Valentine's Memories**


Like an unpeeled entity

She stood confidently before me


Layers of unspoken truths

Hiding her many unexplored depths


All those silent moments where she unconsciously smiled or even wept


As I gazed and wondered at this beautiful woman before me


Who said she loved me


Really paused and perused

Thinking about all her past experiences


Plights and emotions


And all the sad times she might have allowed herself to be used


I reached out with tentative fingers


Let my hands reach her soft skin and let them linger


And as I took her into my naked arms

I too remembered


Aren't we all but living onions


Layers of life's many

extrusions


Secretive shields we use to protect ourselves


From showing our true vulnerabilities 


And when she gazed deep into my dark eyes


With that beautiful transference of spiritual energy


I knew she was the one who was my own reducer


The only one to peel back my many hidden layers


To walk through my unspoken dreams and feel my fears


As I too embraced her soft tears


We were only together for twenty-two years


And then the Lord came and called her home


As I sip my Greygoose

In the quiet hours of the approaching dawn


Sitting here lonely on our old farm


I can always remember my dearest Lola and the moment

I first held her


In my naked arms


She still visits me in the dark

You know 


We just hold hands as we meet with a soft smile 


Before we once more begin our nightly stroll


Through the luscious green meadows of Memories Park


(C) Copyright John Duffy 2022

Saturday, February 5, 2022

Like heartbreaking supernatural monologues?


 Press play.

A lone voice whispers.

The Voice of McLean

 




(A lone voice whispers)


In the middle of it all
Before I took the greatest of falls when I heard God tragically call


I know I stood tall and held your hand for a brief while
As we listened entwined as Prince sung in background
In Montreal

For billions of seconds and even millions of minutes
The Sun seemed to shine brighter everyday
In every conceivable way

The sky with you around
Always seemed bluer than blue and that’s why I’ll never forget you
For you were my destiny

My truer than true

A diamond amongst the dirt
Who tried to consoled me
When everything seemed to just hurt

A soft voice to soothe the pain of living
For you were so beautiful inside and so giving

But like all things linked to true love
Once found and cherished

Death is so unforgiving and so I died and a part of me
On that fateful day started to always cry

A lone voice I can still sometimes hear in the silence
Especially in the low hours

For when the violence in your world sleeps
I can hear that piece of my soul as it quietly weeps

There will never be another like you
A treasure in the dark

An ark who gave me such exquisite pleasure
So keep smiling wherever you are

For I know you will draw the crowds for such is the brilliance of your divine charisma and light

Goodnight my only love

Your man in the window
Always watching as his life wallows in limbo

In here
The Great In-Between

Where we the dead live on
Just parading unseen

Copyright John Duffy

The Shadow Walker Speaks

 



My name is irrelevant as I only speak of something

I once had



But lost as I passed over

 

 

So speaking just between us and no one else

 


Do you like

Subtle questions for an inquisitive mind

 


Just try using the power of your profound imagination


To answer my questions as begin 



So your icy river of curiosity can melt



Can finding any form of love define you on so many levels 


Beyond rhyme or reason

 

And does your mind wander because of this

Like a seasoned traveller


Throughout the ever-changing seasons of the rising sun

 


Dwelling on epic adventures previously run


Alone or with great people 


Or just trying to understand life and all its subtle meanings

 


Are you

My visitors and viewers 

Just relatively speaking

 


All but travellers trying to rebel

Against a mundane life

 


Like it's high treason

 


Trying to become light-bearers for others



I can only pray and hope

Through sharing some love and light



Kindness but more importantly 

Attention to help them cope



And are we the unknown poets


Even from in here 


The Great In-Between



Simply members

From some long-forgotten legions



Appearing at night

 


To with guile create mysterious worlds for you all to step in



The blessed few who in the twenty-first century 

Still likes real talking and society watching

 


From every region

 


As our stories or poetry parades symbolically

Throughout all seasons

 


Creating a liturgy of words



A symphony

For beautiful people like you to enjoy listening to

Or just reading

 


For are you blessed and anointed to be the addicted

And are we your much-needed dependency



For humans are all programmed on a deeper level to just be addicted to something


To take the silent pain of living on the edge away

With its cleansing rainbows 

 


In this fast-moving life

 


Where the true secret is to pick wisely if you really need to know


For most choices will only hurt you more

And cause more unwelcome pain



Wherever you go



Which surely will cut deeper

Later in the low hours

Like any sharp knife



As you wander

Lost mentally

 


Throughout the slow falling rain filled with disdain 

 


For you all need something

To help fill the deep void of need that you are all born with

 


And it's not something to be ignored

But to be graciously implored and

Explored

 

 

For what you receive in return

Simply reflects what you give

 


Some choose drugs

Cigarettes

Alcohol

Or just love

 

Some choose sports or even just fights


Some just choose music or to simply write

 

To them whatever their choice of poison

 

Is it how they choose to get the Light


Truly out

 

You


Does writing or just reading

Reflect essences of your immortal soul

 

And is a love of reading anything including poetry

 

A part of your earthly role

 

Mirroring a part of all your intimate

Dependencies


Driving you to create

 

Whilst covering up

All your own inner transparencies

 

Well

It has been a ride up to now


Filled with such revealing thoughts

And deep-seated questions

 

Do you want some more glimpses


Of the sideshows

 

Running through the dark theatres within my mind

 

Do you want to hear some more of my kin

Indulge you

 

With more profound suggestions


From in here

Our beloved prison

Between our dimensions

 

I can read your mind you know

Just say yes


So we can be together everywhere you go


That's why I'm waiting for you to acquiescence


And to once more allow me to step inside the dark labyrinth within your soul


Copyright John Duffy


Sunday, January 30, 2022

The voice of Lou Henry

 **The voice of Lou Henry**


(A lone voice whispers)


As I stood one sad afternoon

By The Mighty Digotee

The deepest of all rivers of fast-flowing dreams



Standing alone in here

In The Great In-Between



An image of a golden-haired girl

Drifted by and disappeared so fast

 


Reflected in the black waters 

Ever-twirling serene reflective screens



Giving me a reminder of the sweetest image I've ever seen



So beautiful 

Cosmopolitan 



And who I knew would speak like a princess or queen



Even the great Cleopatra would have been so jealous 



Her sparkling blue eyes 

Would have turned emerald green



Then up came another



Floating quickly to the dark surface as the deep currents 



Paid lip service


 

Showing her grown-up adult face



An incredible picture of her 

Dressed from head to toe 

In sophisticated white lace



Fighting life with a wry smile as it tried to take her with its sharp knife



As her pulse still raced



But like all things flowing in that fast-flowing river of deep dreams



The one we call the Mighty Digotee



Anybody standing by the Weeping Willow Tree



Will see sights of what could have been



If only they took a chance and conquered all their vulnerabilities 



As I walked away due South to the second river



And watched the fast-flowing surface of the next one called The Fugentee


The river flowing with things that have eluded many


I suddenly remembered what that beautiful soul used to call me



But that's a story for a different day 



As I watched that gentle river flow beside me


Filled with wondrous sights of what I could have been


I'm Lou Henry by the way 



Filled will all things you could lose or cause you to feel empty


I always think


Is that why I keep seeing images of my beautiful first love


Called Jenny



The one who got sent by God and I left holding my brown suitcase 



When I was foolish and just entering my twenties




Copyright John Duffy


Friday, January 28, 2022

The Mandate Kings and Queens

A lone voice whispers....


With vacant empty stares and desolate soul crushing goals


They who love to stand on podiums to talk and preach


Those who'd like to paint the globe in anxious red paint 


Creating drum beats of suspicion to all within their reach


And then instruct mandates that could make a sane man faint 


For people to comply for their own safety 

With a straight face 


Pretending they aren't tainted 

Corrupted or even classed as crazy 


But in reality

The masses now wilfully mesmerised and gleefully enrolled


Are just restrained like prisoners in orange jumpsuits

By those they've put in control


Because of this and their devoted followers  


Who through social media 

Feel they can openly criticise whilst on patrol

 

This continuous talk of death and fear 

The threat of shedding so many unfortunate tears


Makes them listen to those issuing instructions even more


But beyond the limitations of all that seemingly hypnotising Fear

There is still hope

 

Hope in the divine knowledge 

Of a new freedom


Once we go outside their strict walls and rigid ramblings


Breaking free from their cleverly crafted paradigms 

Linked to isolation and confinement 


Trying to imprison all those poor souls listening 

As they read from their new Dead Sea Scrolls 


We can each still create a new kingdom of our own

By keeping our faith and looking between the lies


Whilst tearing up labels and testimonies from those corrupted dark trolls


Just following hidden instructions 

From the ghouls 

Who are really in the know


Members of secret societies whose motto is simply  

Money and greed


What they do not know is 

"Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas" 


A Biblical quotation in Latin 
Which means "greed is the root of evil"
 


Which will be the mantra of the Devils Men when they come


And all they'll hear when their time is called 

And to 9th Circle be driven by the hell hounds as they are recalled


Where they'll suffer into eternally

When their pitiful souls over hot coals are hauled


Keep the faith
Better days are coming your way


Your life has never been just another commodity 

That can be easily bought and sold



If you never agree 
to put it up for sale


Copyright John Duffy

Musings as I watch the world spin in free-fall.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Santiago the Seer speaks to you


(A lone voice whispers)



A long time ago



With some blindfolded or tied to old green wooden stakes



They loved to stone or just burn us



Blinded by pure jealousy or incredible hate



Such a tragic mistake 



Just because they thought we were different



Since they lived in an unseen primitive world



Overflowing with such shameless mindless ignorance



We who once danced and sang to Old Mother Moon



Or just spun carefree under the mystical Sun



Maybe in our own woodland grove



Celebrating how our life was run



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 mainland's busy main roads



We the old and new singers or poets



Music makers

Authors and storytellers



Or just folk pushing through the mud of humanity to bloom like the Lotus 



Well known or still unknown



But still brave enough to stand tall and courageously



In front of all the world haters



For we are all representations of The Old Seducers of the Hive Mind



For we are all world shakers



We who have always fearlessly 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 and stay beside us in the fast-flowing flux



Leading us forward to celebrate our impulses



Like one of my old friends called JFK 



Is there a wild light within you too my child



A strange beacon which is always lit



That whispers to never quit



No matter how you feel for your God-given talent is real



Driving that deep need to write



Sing or just produce something special that can be constantly reused



In the face of groups who might gather and chant abuse 



Using all those all remembered God-given talents to truly seduce



To help others sailing in paper boats across humanities ever-changing and dangerous oceans 



Which around us all still flows in perpetual motion



Which could easily drown you 



In its many deep and conflicting emotions



For we are all human not sealed up shells



And so we are all baptised to feel that we are real



No matter how loud the brutes in society yells



So maybe one day you'll remember 



That you once with strength and conviction



Willingly kneeled 



To be blessed and baptised before Apollo's altar



The Greek God of creativity in but another distant lifetime



To then stand unafraid before all to see



As you turned the key to set your soul free



Bravely standing in a straight line



Whispering Blessed Be



And is now like many years before



Your right time to shine



I think you know all the answers



Now go and play a part with freedom



In this

The greatest of all games ever designed in God many kingdoms 



Copyright John Duffy 

Monday, January 24, 2022

The Sins of the Beloved

 (A lone voice whispers)


From all those sad love letters left behind that I still sometimes read whenever I feel the deep need



All those special poignant ones which still call to me like Odysseus sirens



Even though they always cut so deep afterwards like a sharp butcher’s knife



Those dark ones which whisper as they smother and conquer my every heaving breath



All those secretly treasured ones which still reek with your Machiavellian



So tempting perfume tinged with a mischievous seductive glint 


That whispers of unspeakable deeds and ominous rules



Which I always see engulfing each and every corner and dark silhouette of this 



Our old bedroom



Subtle hints of all the wild memories 


Of salacious sin, we once so wantonly engaged within



 Yes you know the ones 

All those French-kissed pacts



Old whispered saliva sealed symbolic acts 


Of our impervious brush from high above 



Where you once said so delicately and so evocatively 



I love you



And painted a magnificent priceless portrait in sweet crimson kisses



So visually compellingly the legendary Michelangelo 



Would have cried if he witnessed or tasted 


A drop of it before he could paint it 



Before he died

 


You stated so bravely to the congregation of shadows 


And to the watching Nether World 



In this life of thunder and all its many conflicts



You'd be mine forever



You'd stay to help me conquer uncharted mountains and waves 



And be my one and only wife in this version of a new life



But I suppose deeds done in the Basking of The Witching Hour 


After the stroke of Midnight



When all emotions lay naked and bare 


As the fine line between truth and fantasy 



Fluctuates and swirls



Especially when the Full Wolf Moon 


Looks down and roars in silent smug victory 


As its eternal energies are transferred



Those who choose to blindly or subtly 


Utter wild oaths of fidelity past midnight


Should be always forgiven



For I will always forever into eternity 


Remember our first kiss 


That sealed our pact which announced to the watching shadows and the Nether World



Our binding act 



For you my vision of perfection 


A Goddess Incarnate



I will always still wait just like one of the many cursed foolish souls



Made of only flesh and blood



A now patient resident


Just cursed to walk to a standstill 


On this crazy mud called Gaia



With you as my cold owner 


My own ice queen



My everlasting painful cherished spiritual addiction


From who I always long to pray to hear from 



To free me from these rusty chains 


Which keep me a prisoner in old dreams where I wake up numb



Dreams where we once danced free and never had any fears 


Or shed any painfully sad tears 


Before society cast us into the desert of isolation



And left me with this 



My red and golden medal of Tristitia 



Which lies pinned deep but invisible above whatever I wear


Attempting to hold me together to keep me from falling apart


As I try to use expensive clothes to hide from the watching world


My broken heart



Copyright John Duffy 


The Mage