Rebirth

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Salute.

(A lone voice whispers.)

I sensed it in the very depths of my soul

After I was allowed entrance  

To here 

To The Great in-Between

Where I've experienced the tragic tendrils of the loss of true love

You've ever seen

You are mine

No longer a sweet inquisition

Or a heartfelt instruction 

But a proclamation of a sad reality

I could buy for a pocketful of dimes

From Scarlet Ladies of the Night

Who once stood in straight lines

At Ranch Deltoro

When I like so many mortal fools 

Chased fame and followed blindly Mother Fortune

But now through liberation 

From a new tune

From such climatic anxiety and desperation

My body trembles with this new thought and its expectations

Was it worth it?

Not looking for real love 

Just bought love

In dens of immorality

And sorrow

Where sin persists

And now as I finally understand this

I'm at one with the bright lights of liberation 

At one with that singular truth and bliss

As all is finally revealed in The Transmutation 

Caused by The Purple Flame

The Purple Flame

Which can purge away

Any pain from any situation

I now know this as I heal

But it's too late

That when true love came

So softly knocking

Many years ago

Before Sin and Flaws tempted me to visit Ranch Deltoro

To engage in transgressions of God's laws

I should have dutifully kneeled and prayed

To save my soul

Years of sorrow

That would eventually find me one fatal day

I miss you my beloved

Moon Shadow Pissarro

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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The Visions of Sacco Vanzetti

(A lone voice whispers )

I've lit so many small campfires

Inside this dark labyrinth

Within my mind 

To push back the conception or creation 

Of deathly darkness 

By flickering light 

I've seen raw visions as wicked voices 

Draw sharpened claws 

To bleed the black mud 

They

The corrupted 

Bend to pray 

Kneel and love 

Before they go to war 

With crazy political applause

Saw countless coffins 

In lines of black and gold 

All shiny

Caused by sin 

Filled to brim 

As young and old 

Grave diggers 

Dug 

Saw roots of Chaos 

Toot 

In victory

As it's sown 

Watched a new man 

Like Nero 

Sit on burning throne  

While ash and lava

Welcomed him home 

 

Seas  

Boil from black to red 

With sweet embrace of the dead 

Heard battle songs 

Of false strengths and gory 

As I stood in circle 

Seeing new tapestries

Before me

Of an old story 

The greed of man 

Chasing 

Dark versions of Mary 

For a sip 

Of her black cherry 

Or whatever's 

In her inventory

But near when end 

Seems to run its course 

As people flee 

On foot

Or horse

I dreamed or saw

Angels appear 

With those we miss 

And love the most 

Standing side 

By side 

With Holy Ghost 

Whispering 

Fear not 

The Great Rot

But see this day 

And know 

Faith lives on 

For within prayer 

It's never gone 

And it's why the Dark 

Will always die 

And Light 

Will always 

Rise again 

For although they seek to corrupt 

The world of men 

With wicked plans 

They will not succeed 

For the love of power 

Corruption 

And greed 

Will be their undoing 

For it's in those gardens 

Where the Lord 

Any Lord

Regardless of Name

Has sown their Judgment Seeds 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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A Lovers Confession

 

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(A lone voice whispers.)

I'll never kneel to pray no more 

Because I won't idolize anyone this way

 Anymore.

I can't hold back my souvenirs of fears any longer

Though my tears still stain this grey uniform 

I restfully wear

As I continuously look for a new sanctuary to rest

So my soul can repair

I've got to take all those heartfelt condemnations

 With me

For with you 

I've smiled, shouted, and screamed in joy 

To last for a thousand years

Constantly pushed to live the illuminated man's

Hidden underground dream

But what I wouldn't do now

Just to be with you

I know I must neglect all those painful memories

 And try to go on and find the resilience I need

To let you go free

Just like a midnight lantern

Filled with good wishes and introduced into a New Year's Eve

Transformational Nights' sky

To fly so high

To step away and shut that badly worn door

And let my existence go on like Adam

Who once loved Lilith 

Prior to Eve

Before they went outside the Greatest of All Gardens 

And all his first love for her

He silently always grieved

Would we be better off 

if I had pulled all my barriers down

And let you in so totally

To climb in all my hidden tributaries, and swim

Maybe, but I reckon we'll never know

So I'll let go of my metaphysical claim on you

But you may call down someday in the near future unknown

In the falling rain or snow

For this painful love we once beautifully shared

Will keep us safe throughout the blinding of the heart

The silence in the mind

For this love, we once experienced in the darkness 

Beyond the light

Will go through a new phase of rediscovering

Rewriting our tragic love story 

Like a modern-day Fyodor Dostoevsky

For humanity is sometimes incredibly

And intensely in love with all forms of suffering

And love in action is occasionally a brutal and tragic commodity

Whenever and forever described in relation to true love

As if in poetry or wishful dreams

For a love of any kind is never low key.........

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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The Monologue of Samuel Carlsen

 

(A lone voice whispers.)

It's all mythical

And true love is a miracle

This I've found

After opening one or two lyrical doorways 

Within this underground maze 

Within my mind

For unconditional silent prayers 

Seeking

Needing and pleading for it

Soft prayers

Carried gently upwards

 Like Autumn leaves 

Into the midnight breeze

With such ease

Ephemeral but eternally spiritual

Through embedded emotions

Within every little notion

Is it why in this endless smokey darkness

I still dance

The Dance of Memoriae Aeternae

As invisible butterflies

Circle

Whispering her secret colorful name

Like hungry flames 

In the fading moonlight

Licking and

kissing my hard skin

Landing and

Lying in wait

For that transitional universal moment 

When I surrender myself to the past

Through these starlight filters

That always last

For I'm an untamed wild spirit  

Bathing in surreptitious

originality

For I've endured the conception and cessation of light and love

In endless dark  

Seen sharpened knives 

Hidden in poetic words

Watched my heaven and earth being summoned to turn to ash 

But as the burning seeds of chaos grew

I turned to you

Jesu

For much has been outgrown

And this you've shown

(A lone voice sings.)

Oh 

Holy wisdom

Oh 

Holy wisdom

Show me

Thy kingdom 

Thy kingdom

So bright

So I can be

I can be

Drawn to thee 

Drawn to thee

Tonight

Tonight 

Lift my soul 

Lift my soul

To new heights

To new heights

Tonight 

Amen

(C)

Copyright

John Duffy

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Need some inspiration

 Do you ever feel used and abused

By ungrateful people 

With low-level views

Fools

Riding

On high horses

As you work yourself 

Slowly 

Into a hearse

Sometimes 

Things have to change

Or only your old work clothes

Will remain

And that favorite piece of jewelry 

Which you wore with such pride

And loved to be seen

So step back from the brink

Because once you're here

In The Great In-Between

There's no going back

No repeats

Just you feeling defeated 

In this low devilish heat

So live life

But

Love

Share

And care

And maybe 

Just maybe

Good luck and favor

Like a lifesaver

Will follow you

Everywhere you go

Like Christ

Our beloved

Redeemer and Savior

The ultimate 

Second shadow 

(C)

Copyright

John Duffy

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The Divorcee

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Salute 

Although you left me 

One night for another 

 

Leaving me forever to sit alone in the dark

Castaway to wander lonely streets

Always forsaken and painfully apart

Even though your golden wedding ring 

Still adorns my fourth finger

 

And tendrils of our beloved treasured memories 

Still linger

Despite through stealing the heart 

Of a younger stranger

 

 And you left me 

 Heartbroken 

 Feeling rejected 

 Like an adolescent teenager

Mea Culpa

It was all my fault

I just foolishly loved you 

Too much

(C)

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The Visitation

Like a heart's favorite childhood melody 

She appeared to me

Walking harmoniously

Like Lady Serenity 

Straight out of the ever-moving shadows of the fading lights

As blue clouds parted 

As if asked by Moses 

In dark skies 

Upon the stroke of midnight 

All she asks for 

She said

With her bright eyes glistening 

Like cherry diamonds  

Is loyalty

Faith and belief in something greater

Something good 

No man or beast 

Can ever deny as their time 

Flies by

If they could 

Her opulence and grace 

Lit up my face 

Like a New Year's Eve firework

When she appeared at my staying place

And if she's feeling kind 

And kisses you 

On your cheek 

Like she did mine

So gently

With a candy-sweet smile  

That glows with tints of sparkling eloquence and extreme obsession

That's so deliciously elegant 

You'll feel a subtle transference of magical energy 

A synergy of goodness and kindness 

Tied up in a purple bow 

That will follow you 

Like a lucky rainbow 

Everywhere 

You go

Have you too 

Seen this elemental testament  

To spiritual redevelopment 

Yet

For know this 

If you haven't 

Angels do appear 

Every day 

To the mournful guilty or truly innocent 

Of just those in need

To try to answer prayers 

Which are heaven sent 

For prayers 

Sent up to the clouds 

Like seeds

Must be opened and answered 

In time 

And never declined 

To try to stop the torture and torment 

In someone's poor mind

 

So this July 

Find some time 

And who knows 

The Angel who looks like Lady Serenity 

Could appear  

And give you a gift of her red rose

To carry forever 

No matter where your life 

Goes 

From here now

Even into the depths of eternity

To shine a bright light

To push back corruption's

Dark shadows

In these unruly days

Governed by The Archduchy

And secret societies spellbound by ungodly uncertainties

Working feverishly behind the scenes 

To bring down 

All countries

By placing an ominous crown

On a New World Order

King or Queen

(C)

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Goddess Sensualitas

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Goddess Sensualitas

(A lone voice whispers.)

Her name speaks of such sensuous devious mysteries 

Not just one Name

But a thousand 

Conjured and

Repeated 

Sometimes carelessly 

By so many 

Down throughout history

She is wet dangerous lips 

On dark nights 

Sharp black fingernails 

In fading Moonlight 

Light and dark energy 

Intermixed 

That never fails to revive

The heat 

Lonely hearts need 

To breathe to survive

The temptation in new and old bodies and souls

The right in the wrong 

That tempts you 

Foolishly into dancing along 

The sweet satisfying afterglow 

Of sated souls engaged in symbiotic flow

The supernatural aura that surrounds us

When we chase

Her sweet embrace

When we finally reach first base

And taste her

In a kiss 

On a sweet face

A heart and home 

without which

We would not exist

For 

She is the Great Mother 

The source code 

Between all fluctuating states

The Authority from so High Above

Which lust and love springs 

From a fourth-dimensional 

Intergalactic space 

And the alabaster sink 

To which all life returns 

When it's run 

And earned 

All it needs to learn

In this

The greatest of all mortal races

Ladies and gentleman 

I present Sensualitas

A divine gift of such 

Sensuality

I can only hope and pray

You enjoy 

While your lifes flame

Still burns

(C)

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Music by the so-talented David Brussard.

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Salute.

Memories

With abandonment

(5)

We love totally blinded

(7)

To live forever 

(5)

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Some relationships just mysteriously happen. 

But whatever the consequences, do you ever really forget them?

Salute.

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The first line must have 5 syllables.

The second line must have 7 syllables.

The third line must have 5 syllables.

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It is not written about nature or the seasons.

A senryu does not have to rhyme.

My new sidekick

How I relax away from work and writing.

With my Serbian Dobermann. 

Bingoline Dax, but now known as Loki.

I asked and the universe answered. 

Such a lovely soul.

Salute.