The Loosh Vampire

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Salute.

(A lone voice whispers.)

Although I stand 

Here

In the wastelands 

In The Valley of The Shiquix

Although I stand alone

Surrounded by the chanting Nix

Although I stand

Hungry

Beyond all lands

Of The Styx

Know this

I hope your Life you will miss

The mistakes

Love 

Heartbreaks

And all in the mix

It's why I envy the living

As I watch from in here

Just waiting for my upcoming fix

With the arrival 

Of the next Lunar Eclipse

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Inspired by Anne Rice.

God bless her soul.

(Memnock. What a magical work.)

Loosh

1. New Age term applied to energy produced by human beings that other entities use to feed from. 

2. It is also used to refer to the energy that is produced by suffering that entities feed on.

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Epithalamion for Athena

  

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(A lone voice whispers.)

I saw you in a wild dream

Riding a white horse  

Dressed from head to toe

In racy red and racing green

In the lost lands  

Of The Great In-Between

While scrying  

The Tragic Darklands

Using Ayahuasca magic  

Hoping you wouldn't see

For you looked so serene  

It made my soul's lust levels

Scream out prose

Which talented poets could use

To write new gospels

For you looked like a midnight queen

Breaking through a dark lull

To look over your empires shadows and green meadows  

But you saw me  

Looking

Seeing a reflection of me

In your own handheld  

Obsidian scrying mirror

And made my spirit shiver

Oh  

My blood ran like a wild river  

That day

For even though I knew then  

I loved you in a sacred way

My old love  

Called  

Life

In the land of the Living

Who is the embodiment of all men and women

Husbands and wives

Say forgive her

For she needs more time

With me

For I'm like a wet teardrop

That she can't stop

I know what you've done

Though

You've put a spell on me

And it now follows me around

Everywhere I go

Like a hollowed-out curse

As I walk under the sun  

I don't know why I always run

When you appear  

In my silver  scrying mirror

Since inside

When I scry away  

To wastelands

Where lost fools play

I always cry and think

Maybe  

On another day

When my old love leaves  

You can stay

I didn't mean to break your heart  

And tear you apart

But Life's like a she-devil  

Who I love

As I still live and breathe

And I know  

It doesn't care  

  

But when I saw you in a wild dream

As I stared  

Into The Great In-Between

Dressed in white lace and racing green

After our first meeting

Whilst  

Scrying  

Those Dark Lands  

Of gushing smoke

So you wouldn't see

You looked too beautiful to be real

I know that sounds so crazy  

But it made my soul's lust levels

Scream out a wild symphony  

But then you saw me

Smiling

In my Scrying Mirror  

And made my soul shiver

Oh my blood ran like a wild river

For now, I'm cursed to love you  

Even More

But my old love  

Who I adore

My current Life

Says forgive her

She needs more time  

With me  

For I'm like a wet teardrop  

That needs time to stop

I know what you've done  

For it follows me around  

Now

Like a hollowed-out curse  

As I walk under the sun

But The Bayou Queen says

On the sixth of December

In a year to come

You'll hold me  

As my old wife surrenders

So that date remember

For on the sixth of December  

You'll hold me

So that date remember

For she says

We'll then be together  

Forever

In all weathers

But until then  

Save our prophecy

Our Deuterogamy

So we can play

That eternal game

And fall in love  

On that holy day

When I can no longer find a legitimate reason

To run away  

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

Deuterogamy meaning for the inquisitive:

A marriage after the death or divorce of the first spouse.

Epithalamion meaning for the inquisitive:

a song or poem celebrating a marriage.

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Have faith, Love will come when she's ready.

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Narrated by the super-talented, Clinton R. Johnson from Canada.

Egyptian Deep Dreams of Im-Ho-Tep

  

I first caught sight of my true love 

In the 26th century BCE

The Valley of The Kings

Where the land water was tainted

As the Sacred Ibis sang

Following her crimson and golden

Diamond studded  

Scarf

As the Nile River bells 

Rang

With my new road map

And saw the spot where she waited

By the Niles shore  

In the divine form 

Of a gift from the Gods

To steal my heart

And infuse herself into its molten core  

Forevermore

Oh 

How I miss her

So

Now I'm doomed

To prowl this Afterworld

Doing my new masters 

Work

(C)  

Copyright John Duffy

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Giuseppe's Letter to Sophia

  

Would you meet me at midnight 

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Amore Mio 

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In the Green Forests 

Of The Great In-Between

-

If l lit a fire

To guide you

-

After I invited you 

-

To sit and just talk about 

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All The Mysteries

Of Life

-

Over ice 

-

Like 

The Trinity of Happiness

Sadness and Madness

-

The three things 

Involved in all things 

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Things that could then turn into something  

-

That could be so nice

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And then to count the flashing stars 

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Shimmering from afar

-

While 

Listening to real Country Music

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Played on real guitars

-

For within this invitation

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To Night of a Thousand Stars

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Insight

-

Our first topic of conversation would be 

-

As we looked at Heaven's Endless Door

-

With 

Wonder

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Does true love even exist and live for evermore 

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And is there a chance for us 

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My Amore Mio 

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To walk upon its heavenly shore

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Amore Mio: Italian for my love.

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A Sacred Voice Whispers

  

If today

You feel so lost

And endure so much pain

In just living

If today

Everyone looks down on you

With unkind eyes

That seems so black

And filled with total darkness

That appears so unforgiving

If today

You swim against persecution

Strong currents created by politicians

And dictators

And been labeled as

Homeless

Disabled 

Redundant

Too old

Poor

An addict

Useless 

Or just one of the many

Hidden 

Nameless 

Living below the rim 

In the shadows

And deemed to be unworthy of any Baptism of success

Because they label you as living within sin

Remember this

I too have felt your pain

Walked along those same dark long roads

I too have lived through and fought

All personal battles and wars

Until I got too bold with all I preached and knew 

Until I too was crucified 

Look up my life's story

It's still so well told

My advice to you 

Is simply this 

Keep up the belief

That it will be worth all those painful struggles

For in the end

Eventually, good things come to all those who truly believe

For in the end

You will find some form of happiness 

And when you eventually die

You will see God and he will embrace and forever remind you

He has always walked beside you 

Whispering 

Trying to give you so much strength

For you 

Him and 

Me

Have always been together 

For we were always forever baptized to be simply  

Eternal friends

Now say after me

Amen

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The Blues Busker Sings

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Some day 

I can only pray

You'll see  

The light we shared 

Was meant to be 

For within me too

As time shadows fall

I know within you 

I’ll stay too

Until I 

Hear the call

To walk beside you

Before the Fall

Hold your hand 

To fight the cold

To keep

That spell

Alive

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls

Yell

Some day 

I can only pray

You'll see  

The light we shared 

Was meant to be 

To set us free

Some day

To set us free

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell

For within me too

As time shadows fall

I know within you 

I’ll stay too

Until I 

Hear the call

To walk beside you

Before the Fall

Hold your hand 

To fight the cold

To keep

That spell

Alive

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls

Yell

To keep that spell 

Alive

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell

Some day 

I can only pray

You'll see  

The light we shared 

Was meant to be 

To keep

That spell

Alive

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls

Yell

To keep that spell 

Alive

To set us free

To set us free

Wherever we dwell

As lone souls yell

I can only pray

Some day

I can only pray

You'll see 

The light we shared 

Was meant to be

To set us free

For someday

All I can do is pray

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Disclosure - Finding Sophrosyne in The Off-Limit Zone

(A lone voice whispers.)

Like wild Autumn rivers

Flowing down Williams Hill

In a midday storm 

Here in Illinois

We once ran carefree

Over mountains

And all we could see

But before we could reach the deep ocean

Of binding emotions

The Dark Well of all Creation called you home

When something crept in and destroyed our devotion

Love I now know

Is such a fickle thing 

A spiritual joy

Held in two golden wedding rings

The Devil just loves to destroy and rejoice

Like a cheap altar boy

To separate love 

Like it did

When destroying

Paris and Helen of Troy

But now that I have found sophrosyne

I no longer wallow in suffering but now let hope in

I miss you, my love

Like the Sun must miss the Moon

For you were taken too soon 

Before our love could open to bloom

Cut short by something cruel 

In that hospital room

But I know we'll meet again

For The Lady of Providence read my cards

And said 

I'll soon be back in your tender arms

So until then 

Goodnight my love

Until tomorrow 

For our true love

Transcends all sorrow

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Sophrosyne is an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to other qualities, such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum, and self-control.

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The Preachers Voice

(A lone voice whispers.)

The Secret Council 

From The Nine Choirs of Angels 

Sit on the Sacred Astral Seats

Of The Holy Hyperdimensional Inquisition

Angels from Everywhere

Even from The Lands of Kem

Gathered by The Most High 

To guide all women and men

To try to live for a higher glory

For in the end

That's all they'll be

Just another brief story

In an endless sea

Of Earth's sometimes painful history

Now will you

Listen to me

For when we embrace God's grace

Tune our thoughts

To Gods thoughts

Abandon living 

Hypnotized by societies

Crazy race

Where we feel coercion to live willfully in sin

And selfishly 

Consume all with casual whim

But to strive to reach the light

Live day and night

In kindness

To earn the good life 

The Lord wants for your

Transform how you act

For by being given the gift of life

You're under a social contract

Now go and be blessed to 

Live well

Don't just be another

Accessory after the fact 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Saul's Monologue

 

(A lone voice whispers.)

As divine gifts from so high above 

Cherish

Love first and foremost 

Repentance

Faith

Obedience 

Purpose

Fearless, and Prayer

The Seven Keys to Entering the Great Kingdom

As from below 

Look to the stars 

For hope and freedom

Wherever you go

For within each breath 

You take 

Each step you make

 

Time 

Passes

As you slowly enter 

Lord Leviticus Invisible

Gates 

And like a white feather 

From Fates Golden Bow 

Share your love  

With all you know 

But let not your love be weak but firm 

As your soul slowly learns

Let it be bold

To flourish

As you grow old 

For three times 

Twenty and ten 

Will go so fast 

In the blink of an eye

So leave some love 

Behind 

Before you die

So memories of you can last 

To be embraced 

When remembered and  told

For Father Time will soon come 

Calling

Sailing

On his ship 

Of Grey Skulls 

Like a thief in the night 

With Death 

Riding high 

Steering 

From the Bridge 

From here 

In The Great In-Between 

To gather souls 

For the Endless Cull

From every mountain ridge 

So don't be one of 

The lonely who lacked 

The Courage

To embrace 

Just something

Just something

Be it big or small 

To help their soul sing

Even though life

Sometimes seems to sting

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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