. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

The Call of the Demerge

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Salute.

(A seductive voice whispers) 

 
I am that which is ageless

For I’m from beyond that thing in the midnight sky 

Called the Silver Moon
From a faraway place


My powers are ubiquitous

I'm the embodiment of all inner magick

Love power and peace
All fused in me 

 

Await release to help you fight any disease 


I’m the midnight shadow walker

The eternity enveloping your every living moment

All around you
Wherever you are

For I'm that which is ageless behind the twinkling stars


For I’m from beyond the Crying Moon

From a faraway
Unknown Place

Of no unions and all mortal governments and secret societies

Sing to me

For I’m a conduit


Forever living under the silvery shadows of the Wolf moon

I appear at birth and revisit at death

To take you home


I’m the full mystical wheel that turns


I’m the lucky charm

That was bestowed to you at birth


The charm I will take back

Whenever you leave


If in me
You do really believe

For I’m a deep ravine
Of unknown riveting depths

Unsolvable by just one lifetime


I’m primal
Supernaturally
Curious


I can feel your eyes lingering


Absorbing and swallowing my
Every word


From my throne room
In which I now sit


Your presence wakes me

From my slumber

From afar

I know you’ll read
On and won’t quit


What do you need

Send me your thoughts

I’ll answer your numbers
Tonight


I'll send some love and light

Or some darkness


Maybe a sprinkling of my glorious second sight

To guide you through your struggles
And plights


Will you still worship me

Your new Goddess and Queen


For I send this message just for you

From my kingdoms

Just hidden in realms
You can never see


Look to the stars

To the fall of the full moon


I am that which is ageless

For I’m from beyond
The Milky Way

From a faraway place

My powers are ubiquitous

For
I'm the embodiment of all inner magick

A multitude of
Love power and peace
Awaiting release


I’m the eternity of all you are

For
I'm the Demerge


A blending
Of two realities


A possibility to enhance
Your own individuality


Will you sing to me
Tonight

Now kneel and say after me

Blessed Be


Copyright John Duffy 

Monday, August 8, 2022

The Lost Angel, Speaks To Empower You!

 

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(A lone voice whispers)


Hey you

My curious reading friend


One of the bright lights in this Twenty-first century 


Not tempted or dimmed by consumerism


Big Tec and all it dumbs down 

As it slowly infects


Thanks for visiting me in 2022 again 


Did you know all Time is just like a slow-moving river


And you're all walking unconsciously upstream 


To the Nexus of your Dreams


Through its wet ever-flowing waters 


Of glistening gold and silver


As it flows from the Great lights

Many hidden fissures 


Walking upstream towards your own inevitable end


Wandering alongside all those you respect 

Adore or even hate


But if you're lucky


Like I think and know you are


You'll be forever surrounded by incredible extraordinary people 


Who'll all try to support and help you


Find the profound strength to empower and fire up all your visions and ideals 


Like a Drag car engine


And not fall as you try to walk upstream



Those from the Lands of the Living and those from in here 


Currently by mortal eyes

Unseen  


Your ancestors like your much-loved forefathers or beloved mothers


Uncle's or Aunties

Sisters or brothers


All watching from just behind this Blue Portal


Here in the Great In-Between 


Who wants you to succeed in this


The oldest of great games


Playing your role in the grandest of Schemes


This is my new message that I send all the way from Jagaroo's Cove



Just for those like you


Who may need it

So they can maybe live by a new code 


As they walk through those waters which will for Eternity


Flow


I can only pray it helps you cope 


More than you'll ever comprehend 


It's simple really


If you're lonely

Neglected or feel rejected


Reach out to someone

Anyone


Or just talk it through 

In the Light 


Never in the Dark


For you're never alone before you ascend 


And someone will help create a bridge to a new form of happiness


Through an act of inconceivable magic 


Some know as kindness

Some as The Laws of Attraction


But action in whatever name 

It chooses


To help dispel those dark clouds brought about by one of life's eternal Elementals


We know as Mr Tragic


Tasked to collect lone walkers early for his master


The Grey Reaper



Just be courageous to talk as you walk


To dispel those dark clouds that seem to cling and with cunning stealth


Stalk


Until the next time 


Your forever friend

From within the long Shadows


Some call me Jimmy O'Rourke 


Some the man from Montauk Mountains


But to you, as I stand here getting wet 


In the gold and silver river that never bends


I'm forever Elham 

The Lost Angel 


Praying your soul is soon purified and cleansed


Through a small act of magic whenever it's needed 


As you walk upstream 


To see the soul-lifting sights before your End


As you look for the deep centre of all your dreams

In-Between


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

 

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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Salute.


(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

Merry Christmas