The Red Rose

(A lone voice whispers)

What in more sensuous exquisite pleasure

Can ever be summoned with such a small act 

An incantation spell

Of only spoken eight letters

Called 

I Love You 

To create such life-changing endeavors

To make you feel better 

What's beyond all earthy countermeasures or oppressors

What stands valiantly 

Perpetually bare and naked

Before all lost souls 

Whose essences pleads and 

Cries for its devotion 

Its

Affection

Appreciation

Fondness

Friendship

Infatuation

Lust

Passion

Respect

Tenderness

And its other pheromone-linked spiritual yearnings

Have you too been before its alabaster ancient altar 

Said all you wanted your version of love to be

When you felt some unfamiliar virginal stirrings

Then prayed to disappear within its congregation's sway

To hold onto its secret handshake

Through its gift of a single free spiritual Red Rose 

That it always gives away

Or did you oppose

And return all its regal advice 

And dismiss all those soul-changing stirrings 

And cut up its freely offered Red Rose 

Its invitation and gateway

Its secret handshake

With your sharp judgemental knife

To put out any fires which may have started burning 

Did new lies or old emotions

Lingering like limpets

From old relationships afar 

Cause you to then

Fall

Like a wounded soldier

In one of the world's many civil wars

Did a new chance at

A Greek Goddess's 

Exotic taste of sweet 

Redemption 

Bring no

Much needed salvation

Did that new prize within reach 

Cause

Old tears of guilt or hidden suppressed pain 

To rise like a typhoon 

Without resistance

And fall like rain 

Or did you embrace that 

Beautiful new gift

That unexpected surprise at sunrise

A priceless Red Rose and caught all those old tears

In motion

And bade them froze

Before they became an ocean

Does the sentence

Love appears when it's most needed

To supersede all emotions

Even if it's once been cheated on

And will try to stay forever

If welcomed and greeted

Create something in you 

A stirring that you will never oppose

As you accept the chance of new love and eventually 

Embrace 

Its secret handshake and free gift 

Of its exquisite Red Rose

(C)

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John Duffy 

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The Song of Simon

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(A lone voice sings.)

I am abandoning 

My post today

Leaving

Outpost 4 

And walking through 

Another door

To a new place

To stay

Throwing away

My scrying glass 

Back into 

The grey rivers of 

The Dimitri

No longer afraid

To step

Into the deep blue 

Sea of Dreams

Brave enough

To swim past icebergs 

Of prosecution

For absolution 

Of all who see 

Me

Going beyond 

The Carpathian Mountains

Past burning vortexes and fountains 

Away from lost souls

Who come at me

With lit torches and pitchforks of calamity

Away from 

False gods and goddesses 

Who sow paths of destruction

To find resurrection 

In the bright lights 

Of accession

To be eternally free

I am abandoning 

My post today

Leaving

Outpost 4 

And walking through 

Another door

To a new place

To stay

Throwing away

My scrying glass 

Back into 

The grey rivers of 

The Dimitri

No longer afraid

To step

Into the deep blue 

Sea of Dreams

Brave enough

To swim past icebergs 

Of prosecution

For absolution 

Of all who see 

Me

Going beyond 

The Carpathian Mountains

Past burning vortexes and fountains 

Away from lost souls

Who come at me

With lit torches and pitchforks of calamity

Away from 

False gods and goddesses 

Who sow paths of destruction

To find resurrection 

In the bright lights 

Of accession

To save me

(C)

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The Song of Jericho

 

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Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Sing your song

Sing it strong

Don't be denied 

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

For your heart knows

Where you belong

By our Lord's side

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Baptized by all those painful tears

You've cried

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Wherever you go

Sing your song

Sing it strong

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

For The Almighty provides

Like an immortal guide

With arms  

Open wide

In which to rest  

Tired eyes 

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

And in that silence 

Reflect and confide

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho

Will you let him in 

To reside

And help combat sin

Before you join

The so many other Faithless 

Who's died

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Only to be hunted down

By the Devil and his kin

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Take faith 

Wherever you go

To combat sin

Oh Jericho 

Oh Jericho 

Share your light

Even though you've cried 

(C)

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Lyrics of Life

 (A lone voice whispers.)

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Hosanna 

Hosanna

Composed 

Cn every falling raindrop 

Embraced 

By all the world's many

Illuminated natives

From nearly every rooftop 

Is freedom

Hosanna

Hosanna

A song 

Sung in every wet embrace 

From every treetop 

The greatest symphony of all life

No matter how much this life hurts 

When it sometimes

 Cuts so deep 

With its emotional knife

Hosanna

Hosanna

Run wild my child 

They each sing in every teardrop 

Before your time comes 

Hosanna

Hosanna

Try to say 

I truly lived before I died 

And all my love

 I willingly left behind

I gave 

And helped so many others 

To survive 

Like it was my only state of mind 

Hosanna

Hosanna

To all

I could find

Before my flickering candle 

Blew out 

And from this beautiful life

I resigned 

From mankind

Hosanna

Hosanna

I truly lived before I died 

And all my love

 I left behind

I gave 

And helped so many others 

To survive 

Like it was my only state of mind 

Hosanna

Hosanna

To all

I could find

Before my flickering candle 

Blew out 

And from this beautiful life

I resigned 

Hosanna

Hosanna

(C)

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A faint whisper

If you once felt and experienced something

Truly magical

Really spiritual

A connection like never before

Don't burn that memory bridge back to it

Leave that door 

Open

Slightly ajar

For those days

One day

After all the pain has been extinguished

Will still be some of your good days

Memories linked to relationships can be painful

But in the quiet hours

Alone

And with music playing

Or maybe enjoying the silence

You too will still remember 

Those you once loved

From childhood through to adulthood

Those once beautiful souls

Who were brave and strong enough

To smile and beguile us

Even though the sad moments 

Like a golden ritual Athame knife 

Still cuts

Deep

And maybe will make you weep

When you realize 

Those golden days may have died

But they can still live on

 If you're courageous enough

To let sweet memories and pain

Collide

(C)

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Big Stan's monologue

 

(A grieving soul whispers)

Tonight 

I pray to dream

But here I lay

Feverish 

Pitched in a grey tent of fatigue

Like a weary soldier 

Suffering from PTSD 

Laid out 

Like a green funeral wreath

Begging for eternal

sleep

On mountains

Of sweat stained white sheets

But sleep never comes 

To climb to the summits of my peaks

So here I am

Just another lost

Soul

Crying for mercy and salvation 

Bleating 

Amongst the insomnia masses

Like a weary grief stricken sheep  

(C)

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The Monologue of Father Bartholomew

 

(A lone voice whispers)

If I could reveal things 

You've never seen

Which is to come

Visions

Gained from The Black Books of Secreta

Here in The Great In-Between

I'd have to burn my sacred oath 

Made to Saint Malachy

A pledge made 

In The Grand Theatre of Sper 

Visions so heavenly  

So celestial 

But dark

To speak of such things

Would be treasonous

Would be to break it

But know this

The Black Books of Secreta

Here in The Great In-Between

Whisper of Darkness

Coming

The Fall of All 

You know

But also of a glorious light

To push back the darkest of nights

So wear your faith

As your shield

Pray and never be tempted to yield

For the Four Horseman of The Apocalypse

Have started to ride 

In the lower Dimensions Fields

Find a holy place 

Fill it with grace

Deep inside

To prepare

For dark water rises

For strange things 

Grow in power

As the Veil of Aquarius is slightly lifted

Even if you know

What's changed or shifted

Even if you're gifted

Dark gods have taken over the minds of some men

Now dark souls 

Who shun the powers of prayer and amen

But there is still 

A light to be found

A candle to be lit

A voice to soothe

With its profound sound

Peace to be shared

If you're open to give

As you still live

The Black Books of Secreta carries your name 

You know

Lists all you do and say

If I can read it

So can the Principalities

Hidden 

Embedded in the world's many shadows

And sideshows

So do more:

Eph. 6. [12] 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,

but against principalities, 

against powers, 

against the rulers of the darkness of this world,

against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Do more 

So I can help you to

Amare Vita (L)

Love life

 

(C)

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The Rainbow Bridge

 

In a deep dream

I saw an old wooden bridge

A bridge of green and blue

Filled with yellow flowers and red roses

At the front of a huge crowd of watching blinking eyes

Stood a regal black Dobermann

He seemed quite confident and approached

You may not cross here yet

He spoke 

Within my mind

These lands are for those who never forget true love

Us 

The companions

Of mankind

This is The Rainbow Bridge 

And over those ivy mountains 

Are the golden cities

Filled with happy owners and their sidekicks

The brothers and sisters of the Watchers

Who you now see

Before you

Called

The Bellagio

A sea of eyes

Filled with love 

Who'll follow you 

Wherever you go

Waiting patiently 

In this rain or snow

For their beloved owners to show

Above you

If you look

Is a mirror 

So we can see the other side

To know when their time Too comes

To prepare to be reunited

When our true love

Say their final goodbyes

For true love never dies

Only fluctuates

As one walks 

Through a new gate

We are now at peace

No pain

No anxiety 

Just happy to sit and wait for our soulmates

To cross The Rainbow Bridge

For there is no time

And no such concept of being late

Now go

Astral traveler

And recount our meeting and greetings from me and

The Bellagio

And with a low bark

He turned and walked back into the sea of smiling eyes

Who all blinked in unison

Seemingly smiling

And disappeared

As the dream started to fade

He appeared once more

Briefly 

In the trailing smoke

And whispered before I could answer

It is I 

Caesar 

I have always been waiting for you

And as I woke and wrote

In my dream journal

The beloved  memories of Caesar returned

Making me smile

That he was waiting

Now at peace

Amongst his happy brothers and sisters

Beyond The Rainbow Bridge

(C)

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Monologue of The Dream God

(A lone voice whispers)

Will

Tonight be the moment 

We hold hands

Will the Sabbath

Sunday monsoon

Call together

Our depressed bodies 

Like the eclipse of the eternal lovers

The Hot Sun and the Cool Moon

Will tomorrow

Drown our sorrows

As early-morning sparrows 

Sing and 

Dance to a crescendo of sonnets

That rings out

Like Town Cryer bells

Throughout the day

Until tomorrow 

For when true love wanes

 And desire causes you pain

Call to me

Speak my name and I will listen

Whisper those words we once glistened 

With our sacred oaths

For I know you've never forgotten

The ones hidden in those glittering glass shards of your shattered heart

Now that I'm gone

And in daylight

We are apart

For the air

Particles and atoms

Are my envoys

Above the noise

My voice lingers in the side winds 

Of the temporal frequencies

From here

In The Great In-Between

For when it seems you are all forsaken

Always remember you're safe in my embrace

Until you awaken

For I'm The Dream God

The Shadow Walker

Majesty of all the UnderLands

Stalking your dreams

Like..........

The Lord of Darkness

Just call to me

Morpheus

Morpheus

Deus Somnia

Visita me nocte (L)

(Morpheus 

Morpheus

God of Dreams

Visit me tonight)

And I'll appear

To hold your hand

(C)

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Have you heard the call?

 (A lone voice sings.)

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Hey 

Sister or mister

Can you feel it in the tiny spaces 

In your soul

That low vibration  

Calling out 

Into the middle of the night 

With a low whisper

If you do 

Look to the Wailing Moon  

It will guide you home

To my Red Sky 

Where some of my purple doves fly 

And low shadows 

Roam 

Underneath and in 

Their locked rooms and catacombs 

Follow the whispering trail 

Of my falling golden messages 

It leaves 

Walk past 

Lord Dagu 

In Spring

The leader of Those 

Who Deceive 

When their bells 

He rings

Follow that incredible feeling 

In Winter 

Like it's your life's only reason 

Hear it in your heart 

From now  

 

So you can start 

Whatever the season

For your audience grows  

In our woodland groves 

Mother 

Daughters 

Fathers 

Brothers 

Sisters and

Sons 

They 

Ancestors 

Old lovers or

Kin 

All watch 

How you run 

Standing or dancing round 

Our huge burning pyre

Waiting for you 

To crossover 

When you retire

To take your place 

In the dancing circle 

By the Endless Fire

And embrace the magic 

Of Omaru 

It's endless power 

As you dance forever 

Under its Dark Tower 

As lost voices 

Ring out in joy

Like golden summoning bells

In 

The Eternal Winds of Lauter 

As they dance and yell 

In all weathers

Now we live 

In happiness 

Forever 

Purple Rain 

We only want to dance round the fire 

In the rain 

No more pain 

No more pain 

Now 

We only dance round the fire 

In the rain

Purple Rain 

(C)

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P.S.

Prince is still making music, somewhere!

Salute.