Lust

 Press play. 

Is this the meaning of love?

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Are you a warrior?

 Press play. 

Salute. 

Emotional love

 Have you felt it too? 

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#Senryu

Three lines with the five-seven-five syllable pattern (or something similar)

Subjects tend to be related to human nature 

So romance, ironic human behaviour, and various relationships.

Often, senryu tries to spark a laugh or "knowing moment. I "

The Soul Broker

 (A seductive voice whispers.)

Hey

You  

Beyond the holy lights 

Want me 

To make 

You a star

Hey

You  

Beyond the holy lights 

Sat in your fortress 

Reading this in sunlight or darkness

Safely

Seated 

Hey

You  

Beyond the holy light

Want me to make 

You a star

Hey

You  

Beyond the holy lights 

With time as your

Loving whore

With hungry eyes 

Quickly bored

Want me

To make 

You a star

Call to me quick 

Call to me

So you 

I can pick

And fix

Pray for me 

To appear 

To rise by your side

And

Mama I'll make 

You a star

All you have to do

Is sign in blood

A tiny prick

On your fingertip

And 

Mama

And Mama

I'll make you 

A star

(C)

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There are many in the music and film industry.  Hollyweird is heaving with their ilk. 

Senryu

Love turning to hate (5)

The most all-consuming drug (7)

To handcuff lovers (5)

(C)

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What senryu means?

: a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poem.

 Structurally similar to haiku but treating human nature 

usually in an ironic or satiric vein.

First line 

5 syllables

2nd line

7 syllables

3rd line

5 syllables

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Enochian Whispers

    

I am the low whisper 

Heard faintly

In the frequencies 

In-between

The soul changing winds Of metamorphosis 

To guide you from sin

If you let my voice in

Love songs

I softly sing 

To help lovers 

Find their twin

I'm the open ocean

For some to swim

The heat to defeat cold emotions 

And although I walk in silence

Between the spaces In-between

I'm the loudest voice 

Ever heard or seen

The King or Queen 

Who's as strong as steel

The gleam in a new midnight sky

A treasure

Yours to find and hold on to

Before you die

The sweet smile on your soft lips

That shiver across your spine

Like the touch 

Of a lone fingertip

The reflection in your mirrors eyes 

The blessing to be found

Behind

Whenever you've cried

A heavenly gift that never sleeps 

Overground

The sound you'll hear 

When you pray 

Who's always around

For I'm endless

And so profound

The lone walker 

In the Underground Stream

Whenever you dream

The seed you'll need

To know

To grow 

The purple flower

In the middle 

Of your life's stream

Who follows you

Wherever you go

I bring faith will me

As a free gift

For you to always believe 

To cure 

And relieve 

If you need a lift

And though you cannot see me

I sail behind you upon your lifes many tides

Some soft

Some wild

For it's all just a brief ride

A secret friend

Bestowed from up High

Glad to meet you

And someday we'll meet

Best wishes

For I'm your eternal

Spirit Guide

(C)

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The Oracle of Acheron

 

(A lone voice whispers.)

He who fights with the most holy of ways

Will never return

Until they have learned

As new trees are made

By lay played

In so many wet insidious ways

By those hidden in the chasms

In the faraway stars

For people should be careful 

For without faith

In any form 

The nearby Darkness can open a gateway to sin

And if that abyss is opened

Revealing 

Desolations

Fatal sandstorms

It gets so much harder 

To let hope in

So O ye

O ye 

I summon by the Purple Flame

Virtue 

By the Divine Will of God

To guide you

Amen

Through Acheron

So you can 

Once more

Run

(C)

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Souls on the Banks of the Acheron

A symbolist oil on canvas painting and created by, Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, in 1898. 

The Man who talked to butterflies

 (A lone voice whispers. Lost in deep reflection. 

Musing in the throes of spiritual introspection — to a butterfly.)

And so it rained outside and even inside

For what seemed like forty days and forty nights

As I wandered lost in that yellow lonely deserted

Judean Desert

Alone

When the hard times and the whispering low vibrational voices came

On the Mount of Temptation

Fluctuating between mild and wild feelings

Intermixing with the sound of falling rain in the distance

Then peaking to unknown or unexplored heights of demoralising anxiety 

With no limits or resistance

To finally merge together 

To twirl their silver big band batons high

As they danced in absolute unrestricted low vibrational ecstasy

Underneath that grinning red sky

Unfurling

All the hidden memories and opaque trophies of troubles and strife

Which they summoned from so many others to be returned

Petitions for a means to atone

Twisted and contorted thoughts

Which opened my mind like I was being stabbed like a market robbery victim

With the Devil’s sharp knife

But as I knelt and prayed

With my eyes shut thinking about the living masses

Weighed up all the pros and cons

Imaging all the endless happiness

Still to be found within all seemingly sorrowful lives

A vision of a white cross suddenly appeared

And some soft eloquently spoken words

Echoed throughout my ears

Do not be scared of this life and all its many fears

Do not be scared to shed some sad tears for yourself or others

The happy days are soon to come

Keep your faith in this voice

Your version of the one true One

For we are many

And we appear everywhere

As in this form

He allows you to still run

For when your time is recalled by your final act in this endless chapter of life

On the cross

So many will be saved and rescued from the mighty fall to Abaddon

The Dark Lands of the Fallen Ones

And so I’ll walk on smiling

For I know now

Beyond all doubt

My soon-to-be death in Golgotha would be my ultimate gift to the world

Today and forevermore

So who am I

To dare to be late

When the world I see before me

Needs to be irrevocably changed

From Bethlehem to all the many other bent city gates

For they are all filled with green rivers of jealously

And gushing winds carrying sharp spears of fear and with so many foolishly condemning others

By false accusations

Spreading hate

All I can do is play my role to perfection

If it only saves just one poor soul

What a better way to serve my version of my Holy Father

For I now know to follow which path is my destination Home

The one I have no control over

For all life

Even mine

Reads like a precious whole poem

Just that mine will begin and end in a timeless loop

When I arrive

To stand bravely upright

Before the baying crowds

In Old Golgotha

Thanks for listening

My friend who I’ll call

Mary

In the form of a beautiful white butterfly

My mother

Who I can only pray

I’ll see once more

Before the day I die

©

Copyright John Duffy

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Jesus

Faith

Memories of Mary Jane

 

(A lone voice whispers. )

In the twilight hours

Just when the grey clouds

Break and the slow moon rises

Silently announcing 

It's getting too late

I still always wake to remember 

That auburn hair girl

I once used to date

Her bright green eyes  

And a twinkling wide smile

All things  

Young boys dream of  

And for them

To go that extra mile

But like all things that came to pass

Our love withered

The night her beloved Pa died

I tried to hold her hands  

To console her

Prayed God would wipe away all those wet tears she cried

But that new hole in her arm

Which soon swallowed up

All our hard worked for gold

Always left me feeling lonely and cold

It all ended on a fateful night

On June the first  

When the rains fell

And life was a constant fight and everything seemed on top

Filled with thirst

With my wallet and her purse empty

She got that feeling 

To go out stealing

Only to get shot dead by the cops

I can still see her now even after all these sad passing years

Now I'm old and grey  

Sat in this nursing home

Feeling all alone and filled with so many dry tears

I guess those memories of my youth will still linger and will never stop

It's quite crazy now that I'm on morphine to ease the pain

Those images of her standing in the kitchen

With those beautiful green eyes and wide beaming smile

Cooking and singing 

While outside it rained

Still play around the cinemas

In my brain

As I even now 

At seventy-five  

Remember  

Echoes of my first and last love

My beloved wife and lifelong addiction  

Called Mary Jane

My love for you  

Still survives

Wherever you are

And until we are once more  

Reunited

Will always remain

If you can hear this

Just know I still treasure those memories of us

The one's where you were free and truly alive

Copyright John Duffy

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