. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Voice of Farouk



(A dark voice whispers)


We the dead 

Envy you 


The living

You know 


Crying 

Watching 

Everywhere you go


From our new bedrooms 


In quiet tombs 

Underground 


Worldwide


In this endless winters snow


Saying  


Look at all those crazy fools 


Suddenly dying 


They'll all  

Be coming here 

Soon


To gather in our 

Dark Black Watchers 

Fields 


With us 

The new night breed


Turning slowly to 

Pitiful dust 


Filled with dry tears 

And crying eyes


Endlessly 

Whispering too


Why did we listen to paid-for lies 


For when that bastard Covid Man 

Comes a calling 


With his shiny black medication bag

Filled with backhanded bribes 


All living things 


Filled with rarer than gold 

Pure loosh and fear 


Start 

A falling 



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Monday, January 2, 2023

My last urge to write poetry .

Blowing like a wind

Illuminating the soul 

Cherish poetry 

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

It's been fun.
Look after yourself.
Salute.




Goodbye.




Saturday, December 31, 2022

Happy New Year

 


We've lost a few
Gained a few

Still loved a few
Living

If we're lucky

But happy New Year
To just You

© John Duffy 😍😎🙏🥃

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Friday, December 30, 2022

The Occult Goddess

 

 (A lone voice whispers)



Every night 

When she chooses to suddenly appear


To the chosen few


Stories abound in darkened rooms and secret circles


That all her restless slaves 

Try to raise their weary heads 


From their feathered pews


Enchanted 

Beyond all belief 



Pleading telepathically to climax 


And find some sort of mental release


As she stands over their ramshackled lonely beds


Deceptively 

Beautiful as every single spoken 

Or written human rhyme  


Some say

Uttered down through the Ages 


Through 

Time


By Poets

Mystics and so many Mages 


Some speak of long leather-clad legs 


All men cry to touch and beg 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 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 name is simply Want


For we all deep down 

Crave something


Be it flesh


Power 


Friendship or even Love


Amongst many others

Only our occult Mother 


Called Want 

Can guide us 

To provide


Regardless of the price 


It will cost us 

In the long run 


As we struggle to survive 


While 

she still lives and thrives 


Feeding off our inner suffering 

As we sustain and strengthen her 


With our foolish wants and self-defeating lies 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Esmeralda


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I hope she still waits 

Somewhere 


Within that old farmers' gate 


That wild rebellious 

Country woman 


Of such irreducible taste 


Whose bright eyes still shine 


With the illustrious glow 

Of that illuminated flame


Once stolen in haste 


By brave Prometheus 


From heavens dark skies 

With no shame 


Starting an eternal war between two heavenly states 


A divine glow that now

Enhances her beautiful face


And sometimes 

As I pass by that way 


Incredibly 

Late at night


I can always hear her 

Whispering my name


For she stands 

So inflamed


Dressed in black leather 

And green 


Looking like Morgana the Cunning Sorceress 


In all Arthurian legends


One of the most beautiful women 

I've ever seen


And she holds me now 

Like a pawn 


Enthralled in a grip of steel 

Who no longer feels 


As I try 

With all my might 


To break down 

Her carefully constructed walls


Where she stands 

Always so tall 


Especially 

In these dark woods 


At the stroke of midnight

Where we still meet 


As I stroll through those gates

No longer in control


Guided by her candlelights 


To watch her 

Standing 


Filled with such magical purpose


Singing so eloquently 

In her candlelit circle 


Up to the moon 

And the watching skies 


As white clouds roll by 

With no rehearsals


Uttering strange ancient spells 


Unknown to most 

Only those in the know


As she conquers and subdues


All who dare 

Come hither into view 


Before they can yell

 

It's why I still visit 

Along with so many others


For we're all just hypnotized fools 


Enchanted 

By the delicious sounds 


Of Esmeralda 


And her golden ringing 

Summoning bells



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Swimmer


 I'm not yours 

Like it used to be


Now I'm just lost 


Swimming 

In rough seas 


Clutching onto your memories 

Like a broken tree 


To keep me afloat 


In this now 

Gentle breeze


But I know 


When I really look 

At that tree


My old love 

Loved to be quiet 


Loved to be loud

 

Loved to be kind 


But 

Sometimes 

in the twilight 


Lost and floating at sea

I also know 


Her old

Love still blows my mind 


Wherever it takes me 

Wherever I go


Even though

It's like a tree 


Covered with a philosopher's

soul disease 


As I look for शम्भल 


Also known as

Śambhala 


In the lost lands of 

Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring


A mythical place 

I now float to 


Where the brokenhearted 


Gather in huge burning 

Paranormal circles 


To sing 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy



The Christmas Prayer

 

There's an incredible woman I once knew 


Who suddenly appeared
One Sunday afternoon 


Right out of its
Ether and Blue 


We lived and walked on kind or mean streets 


Made of fire and ice
In all known weathers 


It was like rare miracle
A true unique paradise 


Before our happiness
Paid the fatal price 


For like all good things 


We came under attack
And The Principalities 


Destroyed it with their dark knife 


Worried
Vexed
Harassed
Irritated
Confused

And frustrated 


We fell like lightning from our heaven 


Never again
To be together 


But then a low whisper Came to me


Skipping and dancing
Like Heidi 



Throughout all the inner corridors 

Of my mind 


In a dream
With no name 


It whispered

Say these words 


When day breaks or when the night falls 


To cleanse your soul of anything dark 


That calls 


Lord God, my Protector and
Savior 


I pray for Your protection and salvation 


As my days and nights left
In numbers 


Fall 


For you are my shield
My place 


My refuge and under Your wings 


I pray for peace against all those things 


The Principalities use 


So I can look past that darkness 


And remember the love
I still have for my muse 


And then it faded
Like a setting sun 


I wrote down that prayer
For it lingered so 


Begging to be captured
In case others needed to hear 


Or know it's rapture 


Its powerful song
To help right old wrongs 


For I see her now
Standing so strong 


In visions 


Like Deborah in The Old Testament



Heaven sent 


As I thank the Lord
Day and night in prayer 


For the strength


In making his Presence
Felt 


To then revisit memories
That never left 


Those beautiful ones
I still treasure 


The ones we
Created and
Forever meant 


(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, December 25, 2022

Do we get visited by those we still love?

(A lone voice whispers)



I always used to wonder


Where do  

Robins go to sleep


Then one dark night 


Within a deep all-consuming  

Lucid dream


At approximately one o'clock


A beautiful deity  

Appeared out of the mists


Wearing a blue and white coat


Holding a Lily  

And a shining lantern


Across its shoulder


A golden trumpet and a branch from Paradise


On its golden belt  

Hung a scepter and a silver scroll


As it strolled towards me


Within my illustrious sleeping streams


A strange palace of absolute darkness


Where no birds  

Flew or squawked


It's mysterious ever watchful  

Eyes


Held me firmly transfixed


Like  

An ethereal heavenly hawk


Its bright white orbs  

Swallowed me whole


As it whispered  

Words


I'll remember  

Until I'm old


Within the light of day  

We appear


Your beloved and even I


To watch over  

And visit you


To see and follow  

All that you do


When we  

The blessed few


Waiting in the new 

Spectacular 

Bright white lights


In the glorious cathedrals of Atmos 

Shadowy arch


Cross over  

When allowed a brief time


Before we are eventually  

Reunited in a new form


To rejoice in hymn


Within your All Highs  

Divine Church


Depending upon  

The faith of your choice


To visit those we still  

Love


To leave a sign or sing  

A sonnet


Happily with echoes of our new voice as we too mourn  

  

Then in here  

At darkness


In  

The Great In-Between  



A place you all visit  

Whenever you fall asleep


In deep dreams  

We always appear


For real spiritual shapeshifters


Like us


Never really sleep


We just transform into Robins


Through a supernatural technique


For sometimes they are merely vessels


We use


Just one of our everlasting souls keeps


So if you see one  

And it sings


Looking straight at you


Remember this


It's a just a beloved love one


Maybe even me  

Archangel Gabriel


Channeling  

Through


And with that beautiful closing  

Line


It disappeared quietly


Back into the receding winds that whined


Of the Hidden Divine


And when I awoke at eight


I'm sure it met me


Sat on my garden's old wooden gate



My beautiful friend

Who loves to sit on the washing line


Whispering and singing


Hello


Sending shivers and  

Tingling


Shooting


As I remember that dream


All the way


Up and down  

My sinuous  

spine  



(C)  

Copyright John Duffy


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Want to know a dark secret?


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(A lone voice sings)


Hosanna 

Hosanna


 There's a dark hole 

In the middle of my soul 



And my beloved mother 

Still lives in there 


And I carry her 

Around 


Everywhere 


I go 



Hosanna 

Hosanna 



She climbs out at midnight 

When sleep 


I can no longer 

Fight  


Hosanna 

Hosanna


And sits on my chest 

Dressed in her Sunday best



Always

Hidden right out of sight 



Hosanna 

Hosanna 



Whispering 

Strange spells 

That bind me 


In total bondage 

To an old age 


When she once lived 


Hosanna 

Hosanna



And we were so happy 

Together 


Especially at Christmas 



When life 

Still 

Had so much to give 



Hosanna 

Hosanna



But now she's died 



And instead of saying 

Goodbye 


And sending her crying  

To The Dark Lands 


Of No Sound 


Where I'll forever 

Miss her 



Hosanna 

Hosanna 



Lost in a fissure 

In time 


Where the Black Nightingales 

Fly 


I just carry her 

Around 


Now


In a dark hole 

In the middle of my soul 


A beautiful place 

 

Painted

With memories 


And home 

To a stunning spirit


I've always known 



Hosanna 

Hosanna


My mother 

Who I'll carry around 


Until the end of my time

And when I'm called 


To The Dark Lands 

Of No Sound 


She can climb out 

My soul 



Hosanna 

Hosanna 



So we can run around 

Hand in hand


Singing songs of happiness 

Filled with 


Hosanna 

Hosanna 



To break the silence 



To echo into eternity 


All over  

Those sacred grounds


As we wait for 

Strength 



Reassurance 

And his holy spiritual 

Guidance


Singing 


Forever 

Forever 

Forever 


Hosanna 

Hosanna 


Hosanna


© 

Copyright John Duffy 


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Saturday, December 24, 2022

Channeling Yeshua


 (A lone voice whispers)


And so I left my old safe world

On Christmas Day

Behind


And looked for a new one 

In the dark and deep realms 

Of a broken mankind


Sent by my 

Father 

Most High 


To teach 

Before I died


To try to save all those 

Who for salvation 


In the Wilderness

Cry


To change the unconscious vibration of Humankind


And all that 

I could touch 


Reach 

Or find 


Sent to bring 

Peace of mind 


To the sick 

Disabled 

Blind 


Or those held 

In bondage 


By the grip of evil 

Spellbind 


My birth name 

Was Yeshua 


Once sent to tear down 

The old ways 


And give birth to hope 

On Earth 


From the ruins


Glad to meet you 

And so I ask 


In the words of your popular tongues 


Spanish 

French and English


¿Me vas a acoger -hoy y todos los días- para tratar de salvarte del pecado?


Allez-vous m'accueillir - aujourd'hui et tous les jours - pour essayer de vous sauver du péché?


Are you going to welcome me in - today and every day - to try to save you from sin?


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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