A soft voice speaks!

 

(A lone voice whispers)

I

Santiago de Delletoro

The First Torchbearer

See you all like lost little people 

In my ancient obsidian scrying mirror

A mystical treasure now forever lost to humanity 

Men and women

Merged with essences of Light and Darkness at different levels

Some dearly loved because of it and some truly hated

With opinions that are so well calculated and littered with extreme profanity

And what many of you do not know

What you are all oblivious to

Is that a delicious scent of your life

Lingers all around you

Like an expensive perfume

As I from in here

Watch in this very small diamond encrusted room

Its tantalising aroma seducing fragrances 

Always prompt me

Encouraging me to reach out and touch

But it's against the unspoken rules 

For so many of you may start to love me too much 

And even though it's something truly spectacular 

Upon which to dearly clutch

Throughout my many adventures out there

On Mother Earth

I've found people are so quick to judge

I met Morpheus so late one night at The Taven

And he told me

He too was afraid of love

Froze

When the red spotlight caught his undulating dreamlike shadow

In the early morning fluctuating rainbows

At the intersection of Earths barriers and the Great In-Between

In the shallow hours

When his powers were growing weak as the living world

Slept and the portals opened

For once silent voices to speak

A wild spirit called Rosella

Roaming the demilitarized zone

Chased him down demanding a joining of souls

All he had to do was pay the toll and the sprite would take total control

Morpheus is beside me now as I talk

Oh what game 

He escaped by scattering some Dyllo powder and using a purple orb.

I don't think we'll be back to drink at the Lost Souls Taven for a least a week 

For we both heard that sprite was asking around

Using his hidden first name

Talik

Well

Until the next time for I must be going

The suns nearly up and my host is about to wake

I'll be seeing you all and watching

And if you hear a whisper before your sweet eyes close

Just know it's me

Santiago de Delletoro

The First Torchbearer

The world's most notorious ghost

Always watching your world spin

Through his black scrying mirror

Copyright John Duffy

  

The Song of the Preacher Man

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The Song of the Preacher Man

(A lone voice sings in the low hours. Guitar solo.

 Such a soulful voice. 

Can you hear him like me?)

____________________  

It's a mystery 

When things go wrong

And people think 

They know all your history

When the incense of anger lingers

And seduction sings so strong

Awakening new sinners

And into the deep breach

Old friendships fall

No longer to be reached

Of once happy friends

Now divided until the end 

But beautiful temptation 

Always comes in smiling

For she lives in all nations

And new love sends all her white feathers

To lift your soul in all weathers

Just two souls introduced

Sharing new love letters

Filled with such treasures

Which lead to so much pleasure

In a cruel cruel world

Filled such pressures

Just two new hearts

Now beating as one

As their race runs 

Until 

The very end

No one loved now

To fall into the breach

And stay out of reach

But someone new to listen to

As they teach

It's just life

Complex as it seems

Four score and ten

Filled with people God sends 

It's just life

Complex as it seems

Four score and ten

Filled with people God sends 

Always looking for love

To carry you to the end

It's just life

Complex as it seems

Four score and ten

Filled with people God sends 

Always looking for love

To carry you to the very end

Copyright John Duffy 

 

Ballad of the Beloved

A lone voice whispers.

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A whisper to Mon Cheri

(A lone voice whispers)

In the early hours while all is quiet

When the world sleeps and your soul can wander freely 

Around all of its inner keeps

I can still see you standing at that spiritual crossroad

By the White Lampost 

Always searching for inner peace

The glimmer of something glorious and mysterious

A hideaway from the busy world as it turns

I suffer in the intense sorrow reflected in your waterfilled eyes

Feel it in the very depths of my soul

For I'm not a citizen of the shadows but of the Light

Just revisiting

For it is said in Scripture

In the Book of all Books

Kept in the Realms of Deep Mists

They who face all aspects of light and darkness

They who fight for inner peace by untying the two

Will have a seat at The Great Table

If they have the strength and are willing and able

And to You 

My child of love and light

Of profound grace and such incredible beauty

Which shines straight out of that so beautiful face

I send this

I can see an old carriage approaching that spiritual crossroad 

You 

In the early morning I sometimes visit

In it rides divine blessings from Heaven

On a slow journey to you

A present prayed for after my soul's last confessions 

I can only hope you see it in the low hours when the world sleeps 

As your soul wanders around all its own keeps

Mon Cheri

And it brings you great happiness and helps to fill that deep void 

With all my love and friendship 

A hole you've carried alone since you were eleven

For you're just like me

As it extinguishes pain and such sadness

Which makes you feel like you're living in the End Days

Many know as Armageddon 

Keep praying you magnificent soul

For the Smiling Days are soon to come

And God's the only one who knows where we are all really heading 

Copyright John Duffy 

Channelling Carol

A sweet voice came through. 

(A lone voice whispers)

I know we've drifted like flotsam on the wild seas 

Been pulled apart like Christmas crackers while I was in hospital

Before New Year's Eve

Yet always reuniting despite the courage which wore me out fighting

I'll always remember the love you all sent and I gratefully received

All those sweet exchanges 

Conversations to encourage more  heartwarming vibrations 

But Life and its sharp knife decided to cut our cord 

When it guessed what we had found and knew

Like a cruel warlord and so we were forever separated from its blackboard

Just think of me my old loves as I reside in here

No longer burdened with pain and fear of cancer

As you still all move across its many boards

And with a request for a new addition to the Akasha records

Which I now know exists

I send this

Just know I'll never forget you

For you're all so special and I'll always try to visit 

As long as the skies fill with clouds

Or turn blue

Forever remembering our introduction within these lines

Which may herald our final farewell kiss

Of all those

I'll truly always miss

Copyright John Duffy 

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 

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

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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