The Ballad of The Recalled. A passage from the hidden books of the Goddess Diana.

(A lone voice whispers)

Within a silent dream-like whisper just after midnight

I once heard your faint calls

You whispered so softly preaching in the half-light

That silvery gulf of divinity between us

With such quite majestic thunderous proclamations of sacred truths

Be a vivid illumination  

You confessed

For the world is still so beautiful if you really look below the dark frontiers of bleeding despair

A divine kingdom awaits

Just hiding beneath the many disgraceful layers of political spin

Crushed dreams and depressing days where once rapturous hearts will unfortunately tear

But you are all still a child of a universe unseen

You all have a god-given right to still dare to cling onto dreams

So learn to nurture all your strength in cold days of misfortune and strengthen through faith and profound conviction

Your protective shield to always try to redeem

Dispell all those unspoken lies with a wide smile which may hang like a hangman's noose in friendless jealous green eyes

For your merciful and miraculous heart has always been yours to willingly surrender

Its virtues of kindness and heroism are your own mighty defenders

Just don't be deceived by the many false pretenders

In these long days of ever-growing darkness and receding lights

In the middle of this

Your own version of one of the universes long nights

Don't mirror the tilt of low souls

Into deep icy pools filled with many visitors to Dante's heartlands

But be a hypnotic beacon in what you choose to sing or write

Ignite like an exploding thunderous New Years Eve firework

All the visitor's inquisitive minds as they quietly venture and gather

Sitting hidden or standing  

Unspoken into sight

Inspire hope and give them an unconscious smile

For them to carry away freely into these dark morose nights

I can always remember listening to that soft voice patiently

And now a thousand years later

I'm trapped and held like a Stockholm conditioned prisoner in your all-consuming singularity

For I'll always be yours beyond society or notoriety

Passionate for new bells that now chime

From here into infinity

Bells now which rule our twinned endorphin-filled minds

For we now survive enshrined beyond judgemental scopes of any mortal kind

Eternally blowing in new winds which always provides

Now we are young and free

You once said the universe was always ours to conquer

And within each silent whisper when I still feel and hear your nightly calls from your shrine

Up high in Mother Moon

Once worshipped by so many pagan followers before the fall of man

Regardless of fears of ownership or irreducible complex complications

I'll always climb over these metaphorical grey undulating walls regardless of the fall

Just cursed to try to reply

To you my predetermined soul-flame

Just hidden in the meandering shadows

Whispering through your channelled rhymes

As I feel the exquisite familiar torment that signals and announces with a huge emotional and spiritual pull why my spirit was restored

As my soul is dutifully reminded it's being subtlety recalled  

  

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

What if Earth is Purgatory?

 (A lone voice whispers)

What if you're living in your own version of purgatory on Earth

For eternal souls never like us never grow old

Just tasked with living and breathing

To be tempted by demons and angels

While searching for love or redemption

For we never grow old

Baptised to choosing between good and evil as we walk

Its well-trodden roads

As new introductions are subtlety introduced as they unfold

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

The God of Sleep Speaks

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(A soft voice whispers)  

Are you carefully scrutinized by undiscovered forces from another realm?  

**Do we in the mist, live forever**  

Many of your types I pass daily but especially at midnight  

When I sit on the edge of their bed  

Have always asked

Even though we're all invisible  

We still hear you  

As you struggle to confide in the forbidden silence  

Especially in the last dregs of sunlight before dusk  

**Are we, immortal souls**  

You continuously question  

**What would you do with all that time**  

**Would it drive you right out of your mind**  

Well, here's my answers

Just for you to read before you turn to dust  

**In here**  

This dark place known to the enlightened few as The Shadow Lands  

Where I now exist and drink almond ambrosia to worship and pray alone

Commissioned until eternity to strive to excite lost souls  

To confess as a penance  

I've been anointed with as my chance to find a means to atone  

**Sacrificed deserted lonely souls who stumble and end up my way**  

**Through random long or short legions of linear sleep poetry**  

And like a drunken James Brown  

I gather them around to listen to what my words and conjured dream states

Really mean and say  

While high on whiskey and singing  

Papa's Got A New Bag globally  

Dressed like my prototype  

Good old Bob Dylan in black

When he once faced his own faithful hurricane  

I sometimes entertain them by dancing wildly and singing

Lyrically adept in a smoke-filled circle with the all-time king of pop  

Michael Jackson  

Whilst moon-walking in grey skies  

Watched by others and the occasional falling star  

**My** **agastopia** **of** **delicious lines grace their minds**  

**Like a new friend I was recently introduced to**  

**Hugh Hefner**  

The one famous for all those damned but hot  

Playboy’s pictures  

**That still send adolescent and immature mind's cerebral cortex's** 

**And** **l****ibidos totally insane**  

**I sometimes stand in the half-light** 

Smiling wryly  

**Telling them** **I'm so strong and powerful like that heroic Thandie Newton**  

**The one who once found strength** 

**Self-worth and power** **in a new Westworld**   

Whilst being reborn again and again  

**My words are softly whispered enchantments you see**

**Spells sent just to serenade your tired bored five senses**   

**Filled with a crescendo of rising fire like when Marlon Brando**  

**Embraced emancipation while causing total carnage**  

**Death and eventual apocalypse**  

**In Cambodia**   

**As he boarded that fateful flight 707 from The Seventies**   

**Dreaming of his girl next door he left home**  

**Called Sophia**   

**Am I a sceptic like some say or just a wide-boy spectator**  

A majestic soother like an out-worldly philosopher  

Or just a beguiling collaborator  

Can you feel me  

**You ought to**  

**I am simply giving you a mixture of my powerful prescribed words**  

Which are imbued with the power to grace **your insatiable eyes**  

**Through those cheap or expensive plastic movie screens**  

**As I hide in the dangerous deep depths**   

**Of the twenty-first century's fast-flowing mobile streams**  

**For I'm just a beautiful old beast**  

**A heaven-sent narrator**  

**Steamrolling through with lustrous glossy keys**   

**To all the so many wet lesser brothels of your mind**  

**As you sit watching and casually sipping these sweet-tasting letters as you read**  

**And just like so many**  

 **I already know**   

**You'll soon become gloriously addicted to my cheap bottles of poetic mead**   

**You see**  

**I'm just a non-living fossil**  

A mesmerising essence from bygone days  

Mentioned only once  in The Great Golden Books of The Byzantine  

**I celebrate on Tuesdays and Sundays**   

**By going knee-deep into humanities new future**  

**MK Ultraing new intellects forever**  

**To live just to love me**  

**As I program them**  

**Like an expensive computer geek**  

**I'm a mixture of all of life's sweet-tasting**   

**aromas and scarred sacred baggage's**  

Can you feel me yet  

**Am I just behind you**  

**Watching and walking**  

**As you stride out bravely in front**  

**Or am I standing hiding**   

**Just beyond sight and keeping firmly closed**  

All the smokey doorways to all your dreams  

**Can you feel me like Old Nick**  

**One of my dearest buddies whose everlasting**  

God that guy loves stalking you all like an ageless Marquis  

Me  

**I'm just a once unvisited world of beguiling words**  

**Just conceived into being by the** 

**Elemental unspoken old Gods from mystical** **Talen**  

**Tasked to slowly just consume your earthly time** 

**Of three scores and if you're lucky, ten**  

**Can you feel my bony fingers stroking those secretive rooms**   

**The one's barely visited when you're awake and drunk**   

**With this plane of existence many addictive potions**  

But the secret ones you always use your golden keys to open and visit  

**When you dream**   

**and it's then and only then**

That you'll see me  

As I appear before you

Dressed in black and  blue  

To stimulate your mind to carefully unwind  

All those old sometimes painful threads  

And through finding your own for of catharsis  

**The freedom to write** 

**Sing or just to express yourself to be free**

It's why I was birthed

To help you find your inner soul while you live here

On Earth

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

I wrote this a few years ago.

Watching, The Sandman, made me revisit it.

It's a strange old world.

Have a great weekend you talented readers.  

Salute.

A tragic poem of Lost Love. Codex Consecratio

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Santiago's Love Letter to Sofia

(A lone voice whispers into the night. Lonely and cold)

The last time I saw you

Was like cataclysm’s of 

An unquieted mind

I tried to decipher my own 

Codex Consecratio

To overcome 

And conquer 

My own self-deprecating 

Code Red

For

You are my dangerous solo

Mission 

My one-way ticket 

To Loves

Dark side of its crimson prisms

And Moons

I dream to manifest 

And wait until the 

End of Days 

At your much-sought side

For I have been metaphorically 

Blindfolded and willingly

Cohersed and

Dragooned

For I’m but a naive hostage

To you 

My penance 

To serve my own red devil

My majick

My 

Scarlet Lady 

Without notions of fears

Or that human weakness 

Betrayed through wet tears

Am I but a pitiful man

Tied and lashed to your 

Never-ending 

Crosses Of Gaslighting

 

And infernal 

Damnation's 

Overflowing 

And drowning in tribulations 

Forever embroiled within 

Lost lunacies of 

Dark Confessions

Of love

Do I speak in unfathomable tongues

Is that why you

Leave me lonely 

Always

Drowning in this red symphony

Awaiting the much sought-after days

When 

I appear as your own

Red churches

Self-imposed 

Crimson 

Altarpiece

Only 

Epiphany 

Copyright John Duffy

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The Seducer

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Running your soft hands up  

And down my

Warrior’s hard dark  

Chocolate skin  

  

You gently pulled me in  

  

To  

Bathe forever in deep pools  

Of visceral emotions

In the forbidden darkness  

  

Of irresistible pleasure beyond measure  

  

  

The circle of Shadow People

Surrounding us  

  

Watched in  

Green envy

By red candlelight  

  

As I claimed you

With a secretive anointing of a  

Rekindling of two lost souls  

  

As mine forever  

  

Lightning  

Struck on the timeless stroke of midnight

And I followed willingly and  

Wantonly in unison  

  

As the wet rain poured down

On that old hotel's box  

White painted windows  

  

I saw it in your fevered opulent eyes

As exquisite sensuous deep pleasure

Entered your inner realms  

And kingdoms  

  

And as you smiled  

I saw  

  

That unconscious greed

For an unadulterated unexplored passion  

  

That old yearning for newfound  

World's

Golden kaleidoscopes  

  

Of intense pleasure  

And the overwhelming urges to just......escape  

  

That I  

Alone can truly express

That I alone  

To you can really give  

  

Now as you lay  

Once more before me

Totally vulnerable on that  

Sweet bed of red Roses  

  

And you begin to take off that red dress  

And high heels  

  

**Are you really ready**  

  

  

To step willingly

Naked and waist-deep  

Into deep emotions of otherworldly sins  

  

To  

Look me deep in the eyes

And all your dark fantasies confess  

  

For I am One of the Unspoken Mages

One of The Masters of all In-between  

  

I can see you now  

As you read this  

  

And listen to your whispered lines

As you revel in this newfound bliss  

  

Just hidden beyond all that blue ocean

And those snow-covered mountains  

  

Where I type to you  

Just hidden and unseen  

  

  

For you know

I can take you wherever you want to go

And you know deep inside  

What is to come  

  

You have been caught spiritually  

  

To never again run

But to sink slowly in new rivers of  

Molten gold  

  

A new unexplored world  

To review  

  

In treasures of just you and me

Priceless memories  

  

To ignite your soul  

Whenever you feel cold...

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

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Theda Bara. Speaks from Purgatio.

 

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(A lone voice whispers)

Alone in here 

In the Great In-Between

Standing unseen

In the shadow-filled darkness

I love caressing the soft fingertips of Mother Twilight

As she passes her unrequited lover

Father Daylight as he retreats

Looking up like a two-dollar voyeur at her glorious open night sky

I always wonder why

Nobody now calls my name even though I've died

Am I forgotten like all the lonely dead

With only a blessed few 

Now only alive by those just blindly clinging onto their legacy and fame

Is that why I no longer see the bright lights from the shimmering door

For I'm now just another vampire stalking the living at night

Walking silently upon many well-worn floors

No longer loved or remembered 

But simply abandoned on Love's ruthless highways

Will you take me in

Say my name so I'm reborn

Free of sin

Help me stand straight and proud in this grey neverending storm

So I know deep down I'm not alone

I know you're reading this on your computer

Tablet or phone

Why can't somebody like you just love me

Be brave enough to set me free

My name is Theda Bara  

The First

 A true queen of the silent screen

Will you dream of me tonight

And in doing so

Invite me in to visit to sate my unquenchable thirst

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

 

The Servant's last words

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(A lone voice whispers)  

I once met my true love in Down Town LA

In 1987

By the Palace Theatre

A place she loved because she said she was there when it opened in 1911

To watch the third home of the Orpheum Vaudeville

Come alive with all sorts of wild entertainers  

When my soul called out for it needed her

While at some rich place in Bunkers Hills  

After watching the Lakers  

And now every 15 years

She still all appears even though she still goes to meet new takers

And every night when she chooses to suddenly appear  

  

To the chosen few like me  

  

Stories abound in darkened rooms online and secret circles

Called The Hidden See  

That causes all her restless slaves  

  

To try to raise their weary heads from their feathered pillowed pews  

  

Enchanted beyond all belief  

  

Pleading telepathically to climax and find some sort of mental release as her new or old muse  

  

Praying she'll she stand over their ramshackled lonely beds  

  

For she's deceptively beautiful as every single spoken or written human rhyme  

  

Some paint tapestries of her beauty through any worthy words they could find  

Secret ones uttered down through the Ages  

  

Clever Poets  

Mystics and so many unknown Mages  

  

Some speak of long leather-clad legs  

  

All men cry to touch and pray inwardly to caress  

  

Ravish me red lips  

  

Women say they forever daydream to just taste  

  

Emerald eyes they all speak of  

  

Orbs to invade and conquer your eternal soul  

  

Until the very end  

  

Whenever it's time for your human life to be laid to waste  

  

Has she entered your room and watched you sleep  

  

As your soul wandered its many inner spaces

And unspoken keeps  

  

Her name  

You may ask  

  

Well, her occult name is simply **Rèn nan vle**

**The Queen of Want**  

For we all deep down crave something  

  

Be it fame

Power  

Money

Friendship or even Love  

  

Amongst many others  

  

And only our occult Mother called Want can guide us to provide  

Or so she said  

Over the years  

  

Regardless of the price of wet tears

It will cost us in the long run  

  

As we struggle to survive while she still lives

Lingers and thrives  

  

Feeding off our inner suffering  

  

As we sustain and strengthen her

With our foolish needs and self-defeating lies  

That in the middle of any given night can always make us cry

As our mortal time flies  

I send this out as I await her return

Sitting and drinking in the rain

For I don't think I'll make our fifth anniversary at The Palace Theatre

For the doctors say I'm too ill to leave my home in Beverly Hills  

Years of need and greed have given me a disease  

Now my time is short and my message to you

Be careful what you wish for

For Rèn nan vle could appear to open new doors

To old lands of want and greed  

And if she comes tonight to see me in my room

My only want  

My only need will be

To sink slowly to sleep and wake up new by the Silver City

Somewhere by its blue seas

Where the mythical pink and green flowers bloom  

Free of this life-changing disease

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

Are you one of The Ficta Crew

 

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(A lone voice whispers)

In the graveyard shift

Do you

The old or new hands

Young or even older poets or writers 

Songwriters 

Singers

Lyricists or filmmakers

Seek and use profound delicate words like a mage or sorcerer 

A blessed mystical physician

Who carefully merges consonants and vowels 

With an invincible wand

With soul bringing satisfaction 

Like the proud leader of a Sunday morning marching band 

Or one that forms intense bridges to happiness that must be metaphysically crossed

To escape from fatal feelings filled with juxtapositions 

To help the lonely souls reading or listening 

But all watching 

To find a plateau to distract themselves from the sounds of the ever-ravenous world 

While the rising Wolf Moon and Suen 

The Sun 

Smile in hunger and watches 

Transfixed

As Father Times 

Runes and magical symbols

Trapped with its minutes and seconds 

Burns

Like Raidho

The rune of travel

Rhythm and ritual action

An integration of all aspects of the soul

A literal journey to another place that can help other spirits grow

Slowing down the ceremonious absorption by hidden vampire entities

As they seek spiritual essences to be endlessly consumed

Are all like you 

Just the true kings and queens of the ancient art of the Latin world called

Ficta

When they choose to use it 

Which swirls in the Universes fast flowing flux

Translated for the Uninitiated

As

Make Believe 

Because they're so skilled at making things up without a fuss

That can sometimes bring solace and comfort to those 

Who needs something emotional to help carry them through the low hours

And change their mood by its connective emotional power

Especially at dawn

Midnight or dusk

When old painful sensations can suddenly bloom like an irremovable wound

Beginning in any unwanted morning or afternoon

From heartbreak

Grief 

Lost love

And silent yearnings

So are you one of The Universal Ficta crew

Those extraordinary souls who bring a burning glossy torch

Lit with incredible connective words

To create a raging maelstrom

A holy conjunction

To help those who need solace

To guide them through a depressing or desolate night

Wherever they are

As the four winds blow

Filled with golden and silver visceral invisible kingdoms conjured

And summoned

Through the magical transforming spell called Ficta

To help them heal and face this realm of many challenges and characters as they try to renew

I can only pray and hope you carry that torch

Everywhere you go before you turn to grey dust

Until next time

Your friend on the blue bridge of hope and creativity

Hiding in the Great In-Between

Waiting to see what you produce

Your eternal friend who you may call Benedictus

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

The Strict Mistress from the House of Books

  

I had a rather intriguing conversation today, 

about the power of seduction through words. 

It's a tad risque.

"Seduce my mind and you can have my body,

find my soul and I’m yours forever."

I created this piece as I mused the above when a familiar voice appeared. 

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The Strict Mistress from the House of Books

(A lone voice whispers)

Within these conjured hypnotic words

Lies my secret binding spell

To you 

Control and contain 

No matter how loud you shout or yell

To attach you to me forever or temporarily 

With lashings of lascivious dark stories

As your soul salivates in total submissive anticipation and slowly starts to weep

Let me devour your curious mind like a cavernous thief

and take you to new heights of wild unconditional excitement

As your higher self suddenly

Wakes from its repetitive mundane sleep

Let me take you so damn

Deep

To new apocalyptic wet shores 

Through exchanges of whispered hirquitalliency

Of unexplored crimson heat

And let my hidden fingertips 

Trace pagan pictures of intimate lambitions and reunions

Across that succulent exposed spine in your mind 

Give me all those deep 

pamphagous thoughts

You keep bajulated

under strict locks and keys

That no one sees

Forever confined 

For landscapes or should I say mindscapes 

Filled with such visceral enticing written words

Brings forth such irrational coercive armies 

Heralding banners of such a hypnotic binding power

Just awaiting to liberate minds in the low hours

Those willing to sacrifice everything they once knew

To then be gently or vigorously 

deflowered

As they use aroused imaginations

To explore new verbs

Or sentences 

Appearing like S & M

Mistresses or Masters 

Right out of the blue

Will you pray for us to embrace 

As these soft words upon your mind's delicious lips 

Are gracefully worshipped

As you've now been duly baptised throughout this

Our soul's reintroduction 

As your hypothalamus is stimulated by black and white

Ethereal leather whip

 (C)

Copyright John Duffy 

The Monologue of Peter

 

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(A lone voice whispers)  

Like a common pale beach stone

I stand alone watching eternity's ever-rolling seas  

.  

On one of its relentless sea shores  

As God reaches down to teach my eternal soul

With new experiences before I'm buried 6 feet under the dark soil

Some good  

Some bad  

With a few good people, I've known

A few I've loved  

A few I've hated

A few beyond my reach but still my soul beseeches to preach whilst on patrol

And like a stone

I like now being alone for my last jaunt with Life lessons still hurt

My heart got broken and now lays bleeding in this now red dirt

She came in so darn fast  

Like a dervish whirlwind

Kissed and confessed she loved me

As we shared a moment in time where she promised she'd never leave

And our love would last

But that life lesson taught me wild oaths made in the low hours

Proclamations of fidelity

Loyalty and hope should be taken with a pinch of salt

For the Dominion, we can't see  

A part of the Occult

The Principality who watches all things alongside the Lord

A dark raw power

Will do all it can to crush your dreams and leave them dying like autumn leaves

In the Universes dust

If in a higher power you no longer trust

So like a beach stone

I stand on the edges of time and watch out for the Principalities minions

Cult members of The Dominion

As my heart heals and prepares for another of lifes lessons

When God once again  

Starts to teach  

  

A new type of soul purging but this time around

Now I have better experience  

I'll pray harder that I've found a similar stone on lifes beach

A watcher of the high seas just like me

So we can both be joyous for all eyes

Good or evil

To see

(C) Copyright John Duffy