. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Friday, July 1, 2022

Are you still trying to clutch a Molotov Cocktail?

  


(A lone voice whispers)


Could the sorrowful echoes in empty minds

Mean it's time to remind lost souls

To carefully unwind


And revisit cherished times

When love was once so kind  



When Mother Moon dropped such a captivating warm smile

As wide as a nautical blue mile


Is it then they will know

Not to wait another second or a short while


Never to put Love on trial


But simply to embrace it and accept all it brings

Whatever your lifestyle


For real love has never always been for sale  

  

Even for the brave willing to pay the hard price

For a taste of a forbidden paradise


Some say she comes like a cunning lone thief in the darkest of nights


Just wanting new souls to sit with and gleefully watch new scripts play out


New stories filled with happiness

Sadness or even blackmail


For  

Fake love


Cheap love  

Bad love


Hard love  

Quick love


Every love but never true love


Some whisper and whistle

Has always been for sale


For finding true love is like clutching a Molotov cocktail


In a fast-flowing gale  

And trying to keep it lit


Some say it doesn't exist and it's just an old wives tale


But trust me  

When you've been burnt by that Molotov cocktail


You'll clutch on to it  

With all your strength


Until your coffin receives

Its last stainless steel nail


(C) Copyright John Duffy



Wednesday, June 29, 2022

When Johnny met Amber


Created as I watched. 

 

When Johnny met Amber
It 

(A painful voice whispers, as it speaks to itself in a guided mirror. Alone and confused. Happy and sad. Just completely juxtaposed)

 


The last time I saw you 

Triggered the tragic cataclysm of 

An unquieted mind


As I tried in vain to decipher my own Codex Consecratio


To overcome 

And conquer 


My own self-deprecating 

Code Red


For You seem to be my dangerous solo mission 


My one-way ticket 


To Loves dark side of its many crimson prisms


And snarling Wolf Moons


Empowered by that ruby ticket

I once prayed and dreamed to manifest 

 

Dreams filled with thoughts to wait until the End of Days 


At your much-sought-after side as time flew by


For I have been metaphorically 

Blindfolded 


And willingly coerced and dragooned


For I’m now but a naive hostage

To you 


My penance 


To serve my own red devil on Earth 

In human form 


My happiness and dark majick

Contained in but one


My Scarlet Lady 


Without any notions of fears

Or that human weakness 


Betrayed through wet tears


Am I but a pitiful man 

Some may say 


In hushed whispers in familiar secret backrooms and penthouses


That I'm tied and lashed to your never-ending burning Crosses Of Gaslighting

 

And infernal 

Damnation's 


Overflowing and drowning in deep rivers of tribulations 


Forever embroiled within lost lunacies of Dark Confessions


Centred around and circling love


Do I speak in unfathomable tongues

Am I indecipherable


Is that why you leave me lonely 

Always


Soaking in this painful red symphony and tributaries 


Filled with feverish octaves which ambush my weakened soul in endless waves


Awaiting the much sought-after glory days 


That you always promise 


When I'll finally be allowed to appear as your own Red churches


Self-imposed 

Crimson 

Altarpiece's


Only 

Epiphany 


All these things I cling onto but who knows what the future brings


But know this


I'm much stronger than I look


For I'm like the fiery Phoenix from JK's books


I'll rise majestically like an angel


 When my beloved reputation is being tarnished and overcooked


Copyright John Duffy


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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Love song of Lucas


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 (A lone voice sings)


My Dianna

My life's only Prana

My true love from Havana


I can still hear your breathing and every word you say

When you whisper my name
Even though I'm a thousand miles away


My Dianna
My Dianna


My heart beats faster when I remember our first touch

It's a beloved memory that my soul loves so much


My Dianna
My Dianna


So beautiful
A crazy urge is calling
A love song that must never be hushed


My Dianna


I can still hear your breathing and every word you say

Whispers saying
I should come out to play


My Dianna
My Dianna


My true love from Havana


You've put a spell on me

Like Morgana


The White Witch of Alabama


My Dianna
My Dianna


I just wish we could still dance 

Cheek to cheek

Like on Ibiza Cala Bassa Beach


So you could lay me down on soft sands 


And let your hands begin to preach

For my love boat has been breached


My Dianna
My life's Prana

My true love from Havana


When will you call me

And begin to teach


My Dianna
My life's Prana


I'll forever be waiting on Cala Bassa Beach




(C) John Duffy 2022

  1. Preana - breath, considered as a life-giving force.
    "prana is seen as a universal energy which flows in currents in and around the body"

Thursday, June 16, 2022

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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Reflections. Tobias Speaks from The Beyond .


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(A lone voice whispers)



For just you




If you still need some inspiration and are unfortunately unattached


Blindly looking for that mysterious elusive, match 


To ignite like a raging volcano


Your loves red spark in the light and dark of an unbroken night


Amongst the chaotic crazy fires of just living 


Trying to do what's right


While you're courageously striving and stumbling through life 


Over all, its many hurdles 


Doing what you need to do


To keep surviving before you join us in here


The Great In-Between



To be part of the endless paranormal 


Constantly searching for that life-changing translucent crimson  thing called love


May you get annotated and burnt more than once 


If so desired by its many supernatural fires


Before your life to expires 


For I can always remember


As I look back and reflect 

 

To a date set for our joining


At that old church on West Street



It made me feel richer than all the gold to yet be found at sea



Lighter and brighter



Then any shining diamond jewellery on display at the Louvre 


For all to see


 

Oh how I was ecstatic to be introduced to the love of my life


Called Julia 



Her soft demure always ransacked all my shadows with a glimmer 



That if I was a soldier this would be my last post



Oh how surreal it all seems now I'm a ghost



Looking through my obsidian scrying glass from all the way in here


The Great In-Between



At all the landscapes and seascapes we once used for escapes 


They now all stand burning with once calm seas boiling


And lost in that civil war on land and sea



I still see her now even more gentler than gentle


Lovelier than light amongst the smoke 



That soft soul who used to sweeten all my sombre moments and seconds


At the stroke of midnight 


With soft fingers


Oh how that exquisite memory lingers 


Of the only one to stretch out a hand of freedom 



To offer divine grace and the keys to a new kingdom 



A soft whisper to help me take a break from one of life's many chaotic races



To switch off and relax in our own woodland grove


By the coast


But like a scene from Platoon


I'm now kneeling down and living in a neverending scream



Why does death suddenly call to collect you so early



When everything seems so beautiful



To leave you in a new form of living 


In the illuminated man's poor dream


With only hallowed memories for company 

 

Of lost love 

Bursting out of the seams


Copyright John Duffy

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Want to know a secret?

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(A lone voice whispers)


Do you literally know all things

Live on hired time


Particularly us 

Who once walked with wanderlust


From A to B


Through the universe's life-giving stardust


In metaphysical old invisible shoes


As our poor souls

Time and time around 


Tried to renew


Into a better version of who they previously were


As it tries to atone 


For all souls

I now know 

Are like spiritual entrepreneurs

 

Playing the greatest of all games

With a full deck of cards


Before their own red stage curtain falls


And their sacred vision of the Yellow Blazing Sun 


Which once rose over their lifes many crazy zoos 


Turns pale blue


When all their eternal golden bells sing 


As they are made to ring

After being ordained to summon them home


To wander and roam under this

Sheʾōl's great big silver judgmental dome


My advice to you is simply this


Do more with your time before your golden bells sings


For living 


You will miss 

As you wander lost like me


In this falling white snow which pens us in


For I'm now just another lonely victim marked to repent


By Sheʾōl's wet kiss

  

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Voice of Dalon

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(A lone voice whispers)


Hey you


I know you're there

Silently watching and reading 


Did you know that the Broken Ones 


Those courageous souls whose numbers are so copious


Living amongst you anonymously


Those filled with unfathomable trauma or seemingly endless pain 


But endured intrepidly by simply surviving with tenacity  


Those who choose to hide it so well 


Through cleverly contrived acts of smiling and joking


So that it's never so obvious


From coarse strands of childhood heartbreak


Ranging from physiological and mental struggles to a lack of love or loneliness 


To wading knee-deep through blue rivers and oceans of grief and so many other raw emotions


Even though they can't sleep or even find relief

Due to all the internal mental explosions


Those beautiful scarred souls 


Who strive to celebrate their hard lives in any way they can 


By truly trying to find a means of self-expression


Living righteously and always trying to give more


Those heroic figures we in here call the Maltese Decrees


For as we watch


It seems those gloriously brave tainted spirits are always unconsciously


Pulled and attracted to other broken ones 


Always looking for kindred souls to uncover their hidden gates 


And to open them up to a new world of bright lights and life-changing experiences 


Using sacred love and compassion 


Empathy and understanding 


As some of their many holy keys of introspection 


We all in here know those sacred keys simply represent invisible God-given tokens 


Some of the Almighty's top degrees 


In the university of life for the broken 


But they don't


And it's so extraordinary to watch as they find new allies with such devotion 


Two strangers finally coming together after getting in touch


Knowing their old worn emotional gates


Must be willingly reopened and walked through 


So others can be let in for happiness to be harboured and clutched


As it creates a new safe haven where a three worded vow 


Could possibly be exchanged and spoken which they may need so much


To help purge new or old demons


Which must be conquered through acts of self erosion 


For by sharing an experience with that free thing called hope


With a new lover or friend


Your soul's chances of salvation or redemption


Could be enriched before you perish at your very end


Since through those acts of profound kindness 


By finding the courage to welcome someone into your inner sanctum and in turn 


Illuminating all your late-night prayers


You'll never need to kneel to pray


But instead eventually rise above all the labyrinths overrunning with sin


As they slowly appear each day 


For that's why the Broken


Just love the Broken


For behind all those silent lines 


Never spoken in any particular way


Lines hiding so carefully behind so many well-worn masks


Those that seem to know and be drawn to each other in the bustling crowds


Of life


Like moths to a flickering flame


Wherever they are


Maybe are always tasked to wander before Sister Love eventually appears


To hear the same tragic love poem of the Broken 


Before finding a true soulmate


Whilst living life and trying to walk towards Mother Fate and all she brings


Whilst their lifes bells still rings 


Getting forever wet but always stronger


In all its invisible rain called Emotional Pain


As they wait for a new light to shine 


As they play lifes many eternal games with no names

Designed by Good Old Father Time


Copyright John Duffy

Monday, May 23, 2022

The 200-year-old man, speaks.


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(A lone voice whispers)


Sometimes blowing out these ripples of purgatory fire that burns deep inside


Like a raging inferno


The suffering of standing alone here


In this ever falling soul purging rain


Compelled to just think


By mysterious powers wherever I go


I sometimes remember my long-forgotten lover's cherished name


In abundant waves from yesteryear


Even though it brings such discomfort and disturbing pain 


But still, I'm forced to remain


And this blue apocalypse I feel is now so surreal


As I stand here 


Burning up in the falling rain and snow while trying to heal


But my spirit guide who I currently know 


As Harrington the Third

Says it's no big deal


For emotions are soon to be made redundant by a higher power


As we ascend 


For in moments or even centuries


We'll all be part of this galaxy's ethereal dust


And all they are


Emotions


Are representations of the human condition

Distractions linked to our once mortal interactions


That lingers as we try to atone


For we are now entrusted to be freed from the husks 


Of who we once used to be


To forget all through being commissioned to review and plead our case for absolution


Through well-learnt prayers and profound beliefs


We were once brought up to trust and use as our shields


With some even begging and kneeling 


To be welcomed into Elysium Green Fields


But I'll always remember her


Even after all these years


That red rose I once met


Downtown in good old Tennessee


By the petrol station 

When I parked on the junction 


By that black expensive marquis 


On the state line


And when I looked over and her green eyes met mine


I can always recall how they turned a golden key


And opened up in my soul


A portal to a new world of opportunities within a sly wink


No one else could see


Which made me feel so human in time


And now with real eyes filled with burning fire


That never tire


I can finally see some strands of truth 


As I think 


This fickle universe is so dammed percutaneous


Purging all who once had skin in a blink 


Is that why we the dead 


Are now cursed to whisper and speak about our past lives


Forever in rhymes 


As we stand in this grey shade on the precipice


A brink and link between two dimensions


Harrington the Third calls 


The Purgatio Cauldron


A woeful place filled with the universe's many lost children 


Waiting and praying to see the 9 Spheres of Heaven




Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, May 22, 2022

The Sunday Voice

(A lone voice whispers)




In this grey shade of semi-darkness


I've sat down by the IPFT and looked again down through time 


Past all the fast-moving images and those sad heartbreaking ones


Portraying illnesses 


Lit a white Dominion protection magic candle and pondered


Is she with another I just can't see


Someone else's older or younger brother


That soulmate who once professed and confessed 


She was only mine


Would she still love me beyond all she feared


If I could somehow suddenly appear



Would her sweet kisses taste the same as before 


When we first met and I told her my sacred name


As I stood at her front door


But would she forget me this time when she got home


Delete my old number on her phone


I know she's a siren 

Lord


A beautiful beacon


A light in the dark who all fall to their knees


Whenever she calls



Is that why I'm cursed by the green shards of Belazor 


In this grey shade of semi-darkness 


As I embrace my own form of crucifixion


Charged to look down through time forever 


And tasked by Malachi


To always light a white Dominion magic protection candle 


From the sacred box of self-introspection


And ponder


Is she with another that has my reflection 


Who looks like me


Someone else's younger or older brother 


Now I've died and can only use the IPFT


To see




Copyright John Duffy 

Channelling Carlo

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The Philosopher