. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, February 12, 2023

The Invocation of Mary Magdalene


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(A lone voice whispers)


Will you

Come forth
Appear and

Call to Mary Magdalene 
The Saint of Bethlehem 

 In this year

2023

With an invocation of


O' dearest Mother Mary 

Most Profound
I pray I am found

So my soul can be filled with holy love 

Everywhere I go 

I pray and hope for the strength to cope 

And to share that holy love 
With anyone I see

Amen


A means to help lost souls avoid the Devil's welcoming flame 

But fill them with thoughts of charity

And his Holy Name 
 

To let them see there is no reason to mourn

For they could be gloriously reborn


If they truly believe 
In these dark days of mistrust


To fear not if the Darkness came
Like an unwelcomed stranger

In the falling rain

For in fire and wet sweat
Steel is born


Free from fear
And no shame

So
Invoke the Goddess by Her name 

When your hearts are bare 
As the winters corn

And from the earth and water 

She'll come 
Blowing her golden horn



Singing of mysteries
Of hosanna

Linked to the Almighty's great name

Fulfilling all oaths 
Once torn                   


And drawing once-broken bridges near 

To be crossed filled with cheer

As fear 
Burns up in its eternal flame



To then wallow in its hardy frame 

As it brings forth the glory 
With the call of her golden horn


And guides them toward a new rebirth 

To cleanse the pain 



So depression is torn
As inspiration is reborn

By the morn

 
So they can then chant 

Blessed Be 

After saying 


O' dearest Mother Mary 

Most Profound
I pray I am found

So my soul can be filled with holy love 

Everywhere I go 

I pray and hope for the strength to cope 

And to share that holy love 
With anyone I see

Amen


 (C)
Copyright John Duffy                                   

Saturday, February 11, 2023

The voice of Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”)

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(A lone voice whispers)


People can leave for any reason  

You know


But don't worry 

If they have to suddenly go


Because the heart was made to grieve 


From pain 

Grief 

Heartbreak 

Love


And so much more


For Pain 

Like the Pacific Ocean 


Comes in undulating waves 

When it suddenly beaches through your heart's front door

 

Making you sometimes want to faint and fall onto the ground 

But all you can do 


Is beat memories leathery drum hard


And recall those pivotal magical moments 

With their potent sound 


Bound by a love of some kind

And gather all those once-happy moments around


Pleading with angels  

The original ones 


Sent to save mankind

To stand strong 


As your eternal gatekeepers


To help you push back against the darkness 

Filled with political and social deceivers 


The ones who try to hold your hands when emotions start to run deeper 

And lead you into murky waters


We all know in here


You need rescuing and protection from the world's 

Crazy circus of violence 


All around you


For you are just ordinary folk

Clinging to hope


And praying Angels watch over you so you may grow strong


For even though your heart was built to love and grieve

For a reason


Pain still leaves a stain

When it appears like an act of treason


But even Death is just a turn

A slight turn in the journey

 

For one day 


We will all be reunited 

Underneath the tree with the golden leaves


No more to grieve but to smile and embrace

No more part of that seemingly neverending race


For in the heart that challenges all seasons


In the rain

Sun or snow


 Know this


Love never vanishes under the snow

Washes away in the rain

Or even burns up in the Sun


It just stays hidden in the middle of all hidden things

The mortal mind knows


Waiting for that particular memory song to be sung

So all its lovely moments can return and grow


And give you the consoling truth

You may sometimes desperately need


That even after a hard time of snow

Sun or rain


That there by your inner brook


Your happiness 


Strength

Resilience

And rebirth 


In the form of a sacred Lotus


Will flower again


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Freyja, (Old Norse: “Lady”), the most renowned of the Norse goddesses, who was the sister and female counterpart of Freyr and was in charge of love, fertility, battle, and death

Friday, February 10, 2023

The Monologue of The Hopeful Soul

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(A lone voice whispers)



Oh Lord 


Let me rise 

And meet my love again


Some day

Somewhere 


Oh Lord 


Help me lift my soul 

To know 


She still moves 

Just in another form 



To suddenly appear 


Some day

Somewhere 

I may go 



For she's the Queen 

Of all I hold dear 


Even though

I am a seer  


Oh Lord 


Missing her 

Still fills me with tears 

Tainted with fear


Oh Lord 


Now as I look for her 

In the East


Singing love songs of old communion 


Like a local priest


Humming and dancing real slow

As memories of her are released


Visiting places, we used to play

And venues we used to feast 


Oh Lord


I just whisper


Lacerta

Rigel

Sirius 


Procyon



Arcturus and

Betelgeuse 



Turn your faces towards me 


And crown me with heavenly starlight 


To guide me 

Through this long night


As I sit alone and write


Apollo strike me up 

A merry tune 


Filled with blessings and sacred runes 


Hermes

Send word of where  

She now stays


So I can worship her 

Through this pain


Writing for her glory 


As I share our stories 


Of running in the wilderness 


Amongst the badlands of covid and men 


Before she drifted into infinity 

Suddenly


So

Oh Lord 



One day 

Somewhere 


When I die 


Will you bring her 

Back to me again 



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Visions of an Apocalyptic Future

Some say films are used as a physiological medium to condition society

I searched for this old piece I started in 2016

For a new book

After watching 


The Last of Us 


The Last of Us carried echoes of my first draft in 2016 


A dystopian future controlled by cruel overlords 


It seems such a dark channeled vision of a possible future 


The war in Ukraine
NATO in a proxy war with Russia 

Nuclear war threat

Sudden deaths worldwide

Covid vax lies

Higher prices across the board 

A decimated economy looming 


But have hope
The light always finds a way 


Well here it is



As written in 2016


Seems so far away
Looking back
Salute.


Sometimes we write for we must!


ON JANUARY 10, 2016 BY JOHN DUFFY

USA, Arizona, Quartzsite, Ghost Town, Castle Dome For the readers.

I sometimes write to relax.

A piece I started a few years ago whilst going through a rather dark phase

after my father died and began reading about the various themes

supported strongly on various conspiracy websites,

Which shall remain nameless of course

At the time

the seemingly endless suffering and sudden surge in cancer diagnoses

created anger

at the lack of meaningful treatment

and the feeling that something wasn’t all it seemed to be

This proved to be my own form of Catharsis

and with my introduction to the word itself 


I began writing.




FREEDOM.
FOR THEY LIVE.

The Year is 2021.

I Will begin before I get thirsty for some more Jack Daniels No.7

If you wondering why you should read the journal

of a Jack Daniels-drinking old hermit

Hiding in a working crematorium
think again

You need to know

This Dystopian Hell needs destroying

The old quote

“I didn’t speak out and when they came for me, there was no one left to speak for me “

Is sometimes too true

Don’t be one of the blind

Be one of the few who seek answers

Be one who finds some

Everyone wants the Truth but everyone is afraid, to be honest

The Time is always right to do what is Right

” The healthy man does not torture others,

more than often it is the tortured who interns into the torturers.”

A couple of memorable historic speeches before I start

” One day after I am long gone,

You will remember and say,

We should have stopped the nuclear program of Israel,

Abolished the Federal Reserve and kicked out secret societies, occultists, usurpers

And Zionists out of our wonderful Country

To keep it that way but it is never too late, just remember that ”

1917 – 1963 R.I.P

” A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

For the traitor appears not as a traitor but speaks in accents

Familiar to his citizens and wears their faces and arguments.

He appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation and works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city,

Infecting the body politics so that it can no longer resist. ”

106 – 43 BC R.I.P

Two very wise men

Did we learn anything from them?

Maybe now but then, NO!

Just a heads up, if I start using profane language

Blame Uncle Jack

He’s such a bad influence.

It started in 2014 with the preplanned Confiscation Movement

And ended up here in 2021

Total Dystopia

Ruled over by insidious and heartless Overlords

Whilst RFID populations

Worldwide

Slaved in dire inhumane conditions

Mensentio fed the World to death and cancerous tumors

Big Pharma, supported by the corruptible Laws of the Lands

Enforced the daily consumption of Goodness

And Newspeak ruled the Airwaves

The Truth needs to be heard

Our voice must get out

Men still carry False Flags

People still eat from the fruits of the Beast

The Rich still live in gilded palaces

The Hell on Earth is here

if the Truth gets out maybe the

Change we clamored for in 2013 might happen

#FREEDOM

We were warned by Foreshadowing

Open your Eyes

Wake up for THEY LIVE

I am a refugee in a funeral home

My last hiding place from a long line of others

Hidden from sight by occupying a secret compartment

In the furnace room

Protected by the lead-lined walls

From handheld or drone thermal scanners

Items in the room

Beat down leather chair

Chunks of polyurethane foam oozing out of its torn areas

A large dark wooden table

Stained with unknown substances

Enmeshed into the grain coloring the worn surface

Names scratched into the dirty filthy surface with primitive implements standout

Ironically Robert Olmstead been one

H. P. Lovecraft would have smiled all the way from his watery fourth-dimension home

in the legendary Innsmouth
If he knew

A beaten old black Remington typo dominates the desk

Reams of faded A4 paper rustling the table legs like old lovers

A half-drunk bottle of Jack Daniels

Sits unencumbered by the silence

Twinkling in its golden hue created by the only means of light in the room

A rapidly fading yellow altar candle

A bundle lays undisturbed upon the grimy floor

Ready for battling the dark when needed

Nearby in silence

Waiting to also be drunk with need

Glistens more Uncle Jacks

Sleeping remedy for long nights and heavy days

Medicinal of course

Electricity no longer trusted

For smart meters will alert the 4 Reich Death Squads

Hardly home from home
But wanted men can’t be fussy

As they say in certain circles

If you live in the South of Oceania

And are stuck in your rural self-contained prisons

Here’s what we have to contend with

…Just a brief overview…

Attack dogs and guards stand on every street corner

Hand scanners at the ready

If you're not showing your RFID chip when processed

Then FEMA awaits

The black heavily armored vans

Hidden from view with wrist and ankle chains

Will readily accommodate you

People line up to pass through the many checkpoints

That occurs every 100 meters

Pre-Crime cameras clinging to every surface above two meters

Watching
Always analyzing

New studies into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

Has identified the Criminal gene

And if you're scanned and the gene is identified

FEMA awaits

Drones pollute the smoky air

Scanning buildings with thermal imaging cameras

Observing numbers and collecting the names of persons in the properties

As they fly past

My story is going out for the masses

To YOU

Using now expensive paper and an old typo

(Typewriter to the generation of gadget freaks)

Remington rocks

Anything electronic can be traced and erased

The old ways are the best

Read my tale and learn…WAKE UP

Nada and Frank Armitage tried

Now it's my turn

WAKE UP
For They Live

Noises from the perimeter scanners

Indicate the hybrid transhumanist attack dogs

Are nearby

Sometimes write for we must!


Mmmm...it could be my next small project. Salute.


Would you read it?

Kenja's Monologue

 


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(A lone voice whispers)


I may be wrong 

You may think you're an exception 


For you're so strong 


But

Nothing lasts forever 


For the world 

You once knew 


Will someday burn 

Like Notre-Dame Cathedral


Signaling your life's own insurrection 


For even loyal hands like yours 

Will become weak 


Trying to master the ebbs and flows 


In keeping the grand balance of turning 


Your Great Wheel 

And living


Each and every week 

With all you know


For each person has a Sacred Wheel  


Their spirit slowly turns 


Some slow 

Some fast 


Some may stop and start

Some may last 


But the Sacred Wheel must nevertheless turn 


For the White Candle of Order  

Love and Light

To burn


Or chaos death and endless night 

Will return to corrupt


From the lips

Of The Omnious Devils Urn


For

Nothing physical lasts forever


Love 

Relationships 

Life 

Even Friendships 


For all things have a sell-by date 

When your soul leaves this life 


And opens a new gate


But poetic 

Memories and emotions

Will always remain


Since the bright stars will one day fade away

 

And a familiar hand will wave and welcome you 


Across

Into a new strange land 


But until then 

Know this as our parting kiss 


Nothing lasts forever 

This I've learned


So I wish the turner of your Sacred Wheel  


The Higher You


Blessings of the heart and soul 

To continue


And to always remember 

.

No matter how bright or bleak it seems 


Make it your goal

Each and every week 


To give that sacred wheel 

Another turn 


No matter how small 


So the White candle of Order  

Love and Light 

Burns


And make poetic 

Memories and emotions 


In a cruel world  

With all its twists and turns


The only things to try to earn 


Before you too 

Like me 


To here 

Returns 


With Charon 


Deaths version 

Of Lord Byron


We all call

The Ferryman of Hades 


The deliverer to this hell hole 

Where all memories of an old life fades



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Thursday, February 2, 2023

The Song of the Maenads

 


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(A sultry strong female voice sings)


Euoi Euoi Euoi


Dance to the Aulos 

Play the Tympanon


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


Oh holy Dionysus 

Hear your Kisso 


Sing 

Aloud 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


Wherever you go 


You

Twice born and glorified 


Euoi Euoi Euoi


Dance to the Aulos 

Play the Tympanon


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


We

Raving ones

Cult of souls 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


Need nowhere to hide 


For these red lips and beating hearts 


Cry with mournful pride 

To be at your side 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


For we betide 

To ride morning tide


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


We  

Bacchae


Who sing and dance 

High on supernatural gleam 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


We Maenads

Who's sword's a cross


In shape of a Thyrsus 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


Worship thee 

In underground stream


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


For when Earth's last rites 

Are painted 


When Mars 

Red Goddess 

Tasted


And souls  

Twisted and dried 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


When sun's bright colors 

Faded


And youngest poets 

Written words 


Paint you blue inside 


Euoi Euoi Euoi



We'll all be 

Bacchaee


To dance 

For you 


Forever 

For all to see


To the Aulos 

And play the Tympanon


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


We 

The Queens 


Of all beneath 

That breathes or dies 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


See us now 

And hear our cries 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


As we

Dance to the Aulos 


Play the Tympanon


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


Oh holy Dionysus 


Hear your Kisso 


Sing 

Aloud 


Wherever you go 


Euoi Euoi Euoi 


You

Twice born and glorified 


Euoi Euoi Euoi


You

Twice born and glorified

Euoi 

Euoi

Euoi


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

A sad moment in history



(A lone voice whispers)



The huge excess deaths worldwide blows my mind.


Friends suddenly dying from quickly spreading cancers.


All the time.


Agenda's promoted by money-hungry political or well-paid chancers.


But soon they'll smile no more in glee 


But cower in fear


For truth and light will appear 


To dispel their darkness 
In the stillness


For their daily hypnotic broadcasts 


Can't last


The public are slowly getting in the know 


And as their numbers daily grow 


So the marches 
Will be all over social media 


And ignorance will be the baneful overcoat 


Of a hypnotized few 


Are you in the know yet?


Or would you rather get on with your life 


And casually forget 


The tragic deaths of millions 


As just more fabricated successions 


Of anarchic 
illusions




(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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The Ballad of Whispering Dove


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As she stood in the blustering winds


In the half-light
Of a secret candlelit Temple 


Called Vias Vetitum
(Forbidden Ways)


Standing still
Looking stunning 


After years of wildly running 


Forever searching for the lost mythical Spring 


Flowing with Love 


The Maid 
Called the Whispering Dove 


Heard whispers 


As a new song played
From high above 


Tender words floated down 

Surrounding her 


Like gently blown Dandelion seeds 


In those few seconds
Before the red rivers 


Rose-colored scent could guide her 


As it nearby flowed 


A lone voice then whispered words 


Her soul fire needs 


Carried like a soft echo

In the midnight air 


''Deep down
You know

The immortal stain
Of only laughter and pain"


Its low tone rang out like a toll keeper's golden bell 


With a mighty yell
As that line was carefully spoken 


Reminding her 


Is love worth the risk
Of being so broken 


If that's all
That remains 


For if nothing is duly delivered 


Like endless happiness 


Sensuous loving
In smiling long nights 


Will God appear in the half-light 


Like a humble shadow
To explain 


Where does love go 


And as long as it takes to do this 


To find new love 


Is that how long you've got to wait

Maybe for eternity 


As
Whispered by Morgana Dellacort's brother 


Called
Alfonso Profane 


For is there now
Only small victories 


To be found in
second-hand memories 


Emotional connections linked to out-of-date anniversaries 


Of old love 


Bad love
Grief love
Shy Love
Good love
Family Love 


But all love 


And even if no new love 


Can be found in the deep depths of the Mythical Spring 


Is that why God gave us all the profound gifts of memories 



To help us
Let someone 


Who knows us 


Carry us with love
Into the next century 


To sustain 


Even if we can't find anyone to break us 


Out of our own
Self-made penitentiary 


(C)
Copyright John Duffy 


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Monday, January 30, 2023

Riding hard - With Sista Blue


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Memories 

Is all I got 


For my true loves 

On the highways 


Riding hard 

With Sista Blue


And I'm in the big house 

Cos my loving days 

Are Through 


My tears are

Falling 


Calling 

Like lonely raindrops 


As I think of you

 

And

Memories 

Is all I got 


Memories of someone 

Who haunts me


They're everywhere 

I see 


Memories 

Reminding me 


Of a place 


A place

I wanna be 


But still 


Memories 

Is all I got 


For my true loves 

On the highways 


Riding hard 

With Sista Blue


And I'm in the big house 

Cos my loving days 

Are Through 


Filled with

Memories 


Hurting 


As you pray 

For someone new  


Remembering her saying 


Stick around boy 

Whatever you do


Don't come for me 

I'll come for you 


But now


My true loves on the highways 

Riding hard with Sista Blue


And I'm in the big house 


Cos my loving days 

Are Through 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 



Sunday, January 29, 2023

Late Night Whispers of Bildo Maldeano



Dreaming about strands of an unfinished love


On an undulating blue and green sea


Mentally riding the fast midnight pain train 


Of broken visions that plead to remain


As these sad tears sit snug 

Inside me 


As my loyal and so familiar companions 

Waiting for my eyes loving hug


Filled with feverish dreams 

That I cannot let blow out 


Like a white pristine 

Funeral candle and let die


 

My soul takes flight 

Late 

Every night


Searching for its port key

Over all it see's 


Looking for its only dandelion home


To a place beyond 

The stars 


All mortal idealisms 

Personal wars like Flanders Fields 


Raw emotions

Linked to darkened 

Old rooms 


Of compartmentalized memories

And so many other complications 


Which can quickly turn 

Into torturous situations


Where pure daydreams 

Can no longer thrive


But in pain 


Cry out for exculpation 

And redemption 


To survive


Begging for Despair 

To be excommunicated from this church 


For it will never yield 


And as it returns

Walking back 


From paths concealed 


With fruits of The Hunt 

Found beyond 


The likes of

Flanders Fields 


To me 


It's host and living ghost 

Bildo Maldeano



Whose flesh it uses 

As its shield 


We once more merge 

Together as one 


And begin to run

As we both know 


My mortal time is nearly done


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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