. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, August 7, 2022

The Man who talked to Butterflies

  


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(A lone voice whispers. Lost in deep reflection. Musing in the throes of spiritual introspection - to a butterfly)





And so it rained outside and even inside

For what seemed like forty days and forty nights



As I wandered lost in that yellow lonely deserted

Judean Desert
Alone




When the hard times and the whispering low vibrational voices came


On the Mount of Temptation



Fluctuating between mild and wild feelings
Intermixing with the sound of falling rain in the distance



Then peaking to unknown or unexplored heights of demoralising anxiety with no limits or resistance


To finally merge together to twirl their silver big band batons high



As they danced in absolute unrestricted low vibrational ecstasy

Underneath that grinning red sky



Unfurling

All the hidden memories and opaque trophies of troubles and strife




Which they summoned from so many others to be returned


Petitions for a means to atone

Twisted and contorted thoughts


Which opened my mind like I was being stabbed like a market robbery victim



With the Devil's sharp knife



But as I knelt and prayed


With my eyes shut thinking about the living masses

Weighed up all the pros and cons


Imaging all the endless happiness



Still to be found within all seemingly sorrowful lives



A vision of a white cross suddenly appeared
And some soft eloquently spoken words

Echoed throughout my ears



Do not be scared of this life and all its many fears

Do not be scared to shed some sad tears for yourself or others



The happy days are soon to come



Keep your faith in this voice


Your version of the one true One


For we are many
And we appear everywhere

As in this form
He allows you to still run



For when your time is recalled by your final act in this endless chapter of life


On the cross


So many will be saved and rescued from the mighty fall to Abaddon


The Dark Lands of the Fallen Ones



And so I'll walk on smiling
For I know now
Beyond all doubt



My soon-to-be death in Golgotha would be my ultimate gift to the world

Today and forevermore



So who am I
To dare to be late

When the world I see before me
Needs to be irrevocably changed



From Bethlehem to all the many other bent city gates


For they are all filled with green rivers of jealously



And gushing winds carrying sharp spears of fear and with so many foolishly condemning others



By false accusations
Spreading hate



All I can do is play my role to perfection
If it only saves just one poor soul



What a better way to serve my version of my Holy Father


For I now know to follow which path is my destination Home


The one I have no control over

For all life
Even mine

Reads like a precious whole poem


Just that mine will begin and end in a timeless loop

When I arrive

To stand bravely upright
Before the baying crowds

In Old Golgotha




Thanks for listening
My friend who I'll call

Mary

In the form of a beautiful white butterfly

My mother

Who I can only pray
I'll see once more

Before the day I die


(C)
Copyright John Duffy

Have you been heartbroken?

 


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(A lone voice whispers)



When love dies  

Please  



I beseech you  



Don't let hate grow  

For that path, you then walk  



With that new echo in your once soft voice as you talk  



Will lead you to Saqoseth



To a dark lonely room  

In one of its many prison cells


(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

Need some whispered rules from the Great In-Between?

 

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 (A lone voice whispers)


Hey you

Need some whispered rules from the Great In-Between?

Well, let's see 


Number One

Try to find an everlasting requiem


Something to drive you to wade knee-deep in lust for a real-life



Number Two

Make unrequited love

The rebellious Songs of the Transformational


As you throw away its emotional sharp knife


Number Three

Make a layer cake of evocative delicious delights

To be explored and devoured with your dearly beloved


Hidden from the watching dark shadows all around you

In the middle of any given night


Number Four

Find ancestral strength in midnight memories and ritualistic ceremonies


Within echoes from those now out of sight


Number Five 

Regain the strength to carry on and fight to finally


Find loves hidden highways and as you take flight


If it's not already within your sight


Number Six

Embrace the soft sacred thought that your own Guardian Angels


Watch over and protect you in every single way


Especially at night with their unspoken prayers as they pray


And you my child 

Will be okay

In all your lifes affairs


For every flower needs sunshine to bloom


From when the day they are born


Sadly but also happily saying goodbye to God's many Angels 


Who looked after them in one of his many Waiting Rooms


To finally appearing on Earth wearing an elaborate costume and whistling and singing into life


The many prophecies embedded secretly in their lifes new tune


For as the Angelic Choirs sing here in Paradise 


Hosanna

Hosanna


Every flower has the freedom to bloom


They only need a friend to help whistle their tune


Hosanna

Hosanna


Every flower has the freedom to bloom


They only need a friend to help whistle their tune


Hosanna

Hosanna



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Friday, August 5, 2022

Memories of the Sixties

 


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Do the dearly departed recite poetry in the dark?
Do I sometimes channel them as I hear their words? 


This came through. 
A deep American male voice of about....well who knows!


He speaks. 
Can you hear him?

(A lone voice whispers)



Have you ever lived in a wounded ritual


It’s a lonely world in here and I still miss my best friend and lover
My wounded ritual


For I once lived in the late sixties in the Deep South


This is my short story and heartbreak just spoken and channelled through another’s beloveds mouth


My memories of the Sixties


I always wondered why we were summoned and  petitioned so cruelly by so many blasphemous names


Were we really that cursed by nearly all we met
All over those great plains


Why couldn’t we just live and sit together peacefully but bravely
Just like any other pair of the world’s greatest reunited long lost lovers


Instead of just racing blindly from judgemental villages towns or cities

And sometimes having to hide in old badly beaten caravans in overgrown fields


Aren’t we all born free to walk under a warm summer's sun


To embrace the winds of emancipation as it blows gracefully under our feet


To be firmly told by good mothers and strong fathers
Never to surrender with your dying last breath


We always ran never to be caught for we were brought up to be arduous and to never yield


Although we were doomed to a fast-moving life of constant running


Like a wild mystical stag followed blindly by his beloved deer in the unexplored depths of society's chaotic forests


We always trespassed carefully throughout humanities deepest of woods


Always trying to keep one step in front of the hate-filled hunters


The Commoners
Self-professed royalty
Politicians  
Police 

Ice queens and kings


As we ran throughout all the ever-changing seasons and all the many hot conflicting reasons  


We had our good times though since we always used to slow dance


Sometimes mentally to a lone Motown tune while hidden within secretive motel rooms


You know the ones
Those with soft music playing only two could possibly hear


The cheap wallpaper 
Filthy fans to cool the hot air and the badly worn beds and cheap wooden chairs


I still sometimes sing unconsciously to the beloved dear who still runs around my inner sun


And in this great silence wonder where does she now constantly run


We are all the sums of our wounded ceremonies
But you sometimes have to be true to who you are


For your life can’t be lived if it’s just verbally or physically torn apart


To live in freedom is something you must never forsake
For true love is sometimes so deep it's just too instinctual


Always whisper this to each other
It’s my only advice


We'll face this world
The cruel names and the fire and ice together

Whatever our fate 
For we will never break


It’s what I used to say back in the day whenever I cried or felt degraded 


When I used to kiss and softly whisper in her ear 


When that Sixties summer sun used to bow down to bless and baptise us with its life-giving rays.......


But just like invaluable memories appearing like a midnight hallucination walking slowly back into the encroaching dark shadows 


I always think of my beautiful red rose just forever lost to me 


In this new life of ever-growing hostile and dangerous contentious green meadows 


(C)
Copyright John Duffy


Tuesday, August 2, 2022

The Blues Singer

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(A lone voice sings)


I can feel
You need this


For I saw you in a vision


And you don’t have to be a millionaire


To listen


Don’t have to spend
All your money on me


Simply hear
As I sing


If you’re feeling low
Take a seat


And I'll paint you
A vibrant picture show


With a thousand black and white  words


As your world slowly
Turns



My golden pen
Will be the only true film star


My inner voice
The supporting actor



For once

I and my beautiful life 


Had an amazing wife 


A real cracker


And all was good


I worked hard
Earned plenty


Was known all over in the neighbourhood 


As the kind of guy 

Who you could always go to


 If you needed anything to lift your mood



But like all good things

Something bad had to happen



She cheated
Went with another guy


A guy I’ve known all my life



Bill came in and stole my amazing wife


So now 

I just sing the Blues


The painful Blues

For just for you



Last time I saw her
Was sometime around last June



It was on a cold summers day
Like outside in a Winters evening



When the Sun was going down
When it 
had nothing left to say


She was sat drinking fine champagne and expensive wine



She looked me over
As she had good time



Standing there pretty
Looking real fine



Smiling and knowing


She takes all my money
Every month


Took my car
My house
My pride and soul


Took them all when she walked
Right out of my door



I've lost everything



Only got ten dollars
In my coat pocket



And our wedding picture
Still around my neck



In my moms golden locket



That's why I sing the Blues



The love song of the lonely 
Almighty fools



I got the Blues 

Mama


It sure still hurts



I got the Blues 

Mama



I see them both on a Thursday
At work



She just smiles
And winks



She's a player mama

For I know how she thinks



Bill always smiles
Looking at me like dirt



So all I got left is the Blues 

Mama


As I pray for Karma



I can feel
You need this



And you don’t have to be a millionaire


To listen


Don’t have to spend
All your money on me

Simply hear
As I sing



If you’re feeling low
Take a seat


And I'll paint you
A picture show


With a thousand black and white words


As your world slowly
Turns


Oh Lord



My golden pen
Will be the star


My inner voice 
The supporting actor



Oh Lord


I once had a beautiful wife and life was all


Good



I worked hard
Earned plenty


Was known all over in the neighbourhood


Oh Lord



Then she cheated
Went with another guy



A guy I’ve known all my life



Bill came in and stole my wife



Now I sing the Blues
Oh Lord

Just for you 


As I kneel to pray 

To hear what to do


All I can do is sing the Blues

Just for you

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Friday, July 29, 2022

Tragic love born in the Seventies.


An ode to those who suffered persecution from the judgemental's.

The list is so sad.

So proud things have changed.

Salute.



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(A lone soft voice whispers)


Looking for answers in this

The unholy of all blackest pits
filled with bitter but with still sometimes sweet-tasting human emotions

Illuminated by the flickering half glow of this fading miners lantern

Sat by my burning coal fire at four am


I write these few words down for future inspiration 


To encourage me 

Before I flee to try to get through whenever 


I feel the need to subdue the sharp pang of my apotheosis of my only friend


With dangerous malt whiskey 

 

The one who ritually visits who I call Mr Damnation 

 

For to be able to hear you whisper 


So be it again

 

I'd be driven crazy 


As I caress your precious velvety memories like a familiar shadow and admit to that grim-faced shadow of a human

 

My own perpetual stalker 


Who's staring back at me in this faded old black mirror 


Whispering that I should try to carry on

 

As I think back to those happier times with her


When we might have had a chance to be optimistic like so many other cross bearers

 
But just like every third rosy couple 

 

Who met and tried to stay together

While wading knee-deep 
in newly discovered rivers of uncertainty 


Through trial and error 

 

We were tragically pursued by the real broken phoney emotional stirrers 


Those two-faced ones living in painted white houses 


With twitching grey curtains made of out cheap 
lace to hide their judgemental faces

 

Those who deem themselves to be The Beautiful Ones in society 

 

The polished and the preened 


Strutting about with all their treacherous airs and graces


Just to be seen

 

We were unjustly discriminated against by feverish lions 


Those sad losers 
Who deemed our liaison

 

To be tainted and under their covetous judgemental eyes


To be on so many levels


Immorally corrupted and dangerously fragmented 

 

But to you, my beloved Ophelia 

 

Now erroneously judged 

Likened to a corrupt 17th-century museum 


Filled with pagan occult pictures


By a cancel culture fuelled by heathen convictions

 

My soon-to-be obsolete heart still sings 


As it remembers those wild crazy days and passion-filled nights

 

When we stood firm and issued 


All those endless FUs with such excitement and unbreakable rage

 

How we then ran away from Deep Dale


With anything, we could muster and carry

 
Caught a flight North and got married

 

Went to Las Vegas
Booked into The Bellagio 

 

Cruised the Strip and made wild drunken oaths 


To each other that we'd never be tempted to go back

No matter what news or stories we hear


Broadcasted over the TV or radio 

 

I hope tonight 


As I close my eyes for maybe the last time 


As my lifelong friend

Doc Dupont says my last prayers and rites

 

If you didn't know I guess it's time to confess

You were always my life’s 

True one and only 

 

And I truly understand why you left so suddenly to be with them

 

For it's not easy trying to live with the news 


Of both of your parent's sudden deaths

 

Even though after all these years since you've been gone


After visiting your grave every Monday


My heart still skips a beat 


For I know my love channelled 
through my treasured memories 


Will soon
To you flow so damn easily

 

Reuniting you with those incredible few years

 

When we escaped to The Bellagio


And lived together 

For a short while to renew

 

Free from the long reach of The Beautiful Ones 

So peacefully in every way 

 

And now as I reflect


I never knew lonely until I lost you but soon we'll be together


For Manzoni

The Italian novelist and poet appeared one supernatural dark night 


And told me

Everything will be alright


And soon banners carried proudly into the 21st Century will carry your fight


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 



Thursday, July 28, 2022

Vida Futura (S) Dreams

 

More channelling from the In-Between.

Scarlet Woman | cakeordeathsite

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(A lone voice whispers)

I was once called a Scarlet Man

When I was alive 

By the worlds many Marianne's
Susan's and Karen's

But I never cared

I just loved her even more
Because I once dared before all who gossipped and stared

I still miss you and that irrepressible smirk 


I always used to kiss whenever I called around at around eight

Whenever I could like a loyal post office clerk

To do my dirty night's work

To then smoke and drink sweet liquor as your bedrooms lights slowly flickered

Making small talk and watching the clocks tick

As we both felt the heightened sexual tensions

As our skins screamed out together with 

What happens tonight
Will be our last time

Lines we too always said as we

Hand in hand
Made our way to your marital bed

A line we wore out every year

For we lived and danced in a crazy repertory 

Of slim fingers and hungry tongues

A silent unspoken language of freedom

Bereft of no wrongs

Whenever we conjoined and prayed for the everlasting night

For we knew that when the rising Sun 

Summoned the daylight

We must part
Before she arrived

Oh, how I am truly sorry

But I was just a scarlet man
Chasing a married woman

And now I'm dammed by those in the shadows but who cares

If you're seeing this 
My one and only Kera

Know this with assurance


It's me your only true sweetheart and loyal footman 

Bill Trueman

Sending this message 
So you'll look for me in the Vida Futura (S)

So we can once again begin as you take my hand

In new lands of revolutionary aspirations 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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