. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Monday, August 28, 2023

Madam Poetry. The Owner of Many.

(A lone voice whispers.)


I've seduced so many

From all races


All sex's


Oh 

So many countless old and new faces


With such enticing words


So rhythmically and seductively compelling


Like a form of silent yelling


A self-inductive current for their soul


That can be either destructive or constructive


But be careful if you summon me

To visit


Or I could hypnotise you to crave more

To open that hidden Red Door 


To your innermost 

Curiosity or desires

 

Fires

Of the Unknown 

Which lies in The Nexus


The very centre

Of all those hidden compartmentalized emotions


You own


To create such a magnificent 

Self-Pleasure City


One that Freud would rejoice in


With the Pleasure and Principle as President


To help you win

Or overcome sin


When one needs primary gratification


A release of all happy or old painful sensations


Containing nations of


Thirst

Anger

hunger


Or sex


Which lay in your souls innermost 

Vortex


A city free of any ethics committees


But where

Salacity


Will be 

The only form of 

Pity


Where 

I'll hold you like a wilting red rose


Caress your spirit 

When needed


In any love letters

You'll write


For they all matter


Call to you 

At any given hour

As my new slave


Subservient to my visceral powers 


And lead you

Into my pagan-lettered 

Cave of Expressions


I also use as my penitentiary 

Until I drink and eat all your innocence


Within a butterfly's heartbeat


Where

Afterwards 


I'll curse you to bare your soul

Daily


As an indentured conscript


To create newly dipped scripts

In your hearts well


Like so many others 

Of my indoctrinated addicts


Who from morning 

To midnight


Yell

Silently


While composing

Or confessing


Possessed

Under my spell


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Sunday, August 27, 2023

The Mage


(A lone voice whispers.)


Close your eyes

To everything else


Read this in total silence

In semi-darkness


Can you hear my sultry tempting voice 

As the only noise


Read these magical words

Below


You have no option now

There's no going back


Yumbarto

Kilgarruti


Yumbarto

Kilgarruti


So its dulcet tones can

Run their sinewy hypnotic octaves 


Down your now shivering spine

In waves


Yumbarto

Kilgarruti


Yumbarto

Kilgarruti


Are those goose pimples

On your now-on-edge skin

Appearing


As your soul

Opens its front doors and gleefully 


Beckons me 

In to party


With these final words


Yumbarto

Kilgarruti



Take me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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A Dark Voice Whispers

  


Hear me

For I'm 

The Oracle in the Temple of Temptation


In the darkness  

The multitude  

They cry


Those tormented but loved ferociously by my brother Sin


Who I bless to always  

Win


The Fallen  

Who kneel  


Rich and powerful but

Starved of love


Those who do not pray for mercy in the darkness


From high above


What they do not know

What I try to cloud their judgement to deny


That there is still hope  

For my enemy did not die


But the fools  

Who I claim now as mine


The members of secret societies

Corrupt and greedy


Don't believe he lived  

Beyond the bet of a dime 


So I can maybe take my chance


And lead them to my desert of desolation


With a soft kiss and a trusting hand


That tempts them to take it

To begin our eternal dance


For my name is on another level


If you're into rhyming

You might already know my name


It's simply an inversion of a place


The Enlightened  

Know as heaven


The King who loves to embezzle


Who the righteous know as their adversary


My name is known worldwide


Glad to meet you  

My name is your friendly rebel


The.......


Copyright John Duffy

A piece inspired by all the corruption, flooding the worldview at this junction in time.

There's always hope though, you just have to look between the cracks in the Shadows. Salute. 

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And my Almighty

The LORD whispered


I have opened new worlds of words

For you 


A poetic ministry 

And the main word is

WRITE


To do your bit

In the upcoming fight


So write




(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Channelling William


(A lone voice whispers.)


My Serafina

I still miss your sweet voice


Your delicate smile and your Chanel Number 5 perfume


Those symbols of you

Follow me


Like silvery orbs

Into every single room


The drums

In my mind 


Beat louder

Each time I remember your fireplace picture


But now

Nothing sates me

But faith in scripture


For 

Psalms 35 says


Contend, O LORD, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.


Take up shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid. 


Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me. 


Say to my soul, 


"I am your salvation."


So now I no longer fear

Demons linked to darkness or loneliness 


In here

Bereft of you


For I know


1 Corinthians 15: 42-45

Says


"So it will be with the resurrection of the dead.


The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 


It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory; 


It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 


It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body."


For together

We will be again


To feel the bounty and fruit of the endless harvest 


To sit with and feel the warmth 


Those 

We today


Still miss

In endless bliss


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Saturday, August 26, 2023

Hope

 (A lone voice whispers.)


When sleep is all you mercifully seek

For your soul is sorrowful and weak


When Dreamland's mists start creeping in


Slowly

Like a thief 

In the HippoCampus Inn


I'll be waiting

In its centre


Waiting for you

To enter 


And to me

Your mighty defender

Your sovereign shield 

Surrender


For you and me

Need to speak

So you know


Wherever

You're feeling 

Sorrowful or

Weak


Seek Dreamland

So I can appear


With my enchanting marching band

Of inspiration 

In the mists


And you

To sing to sleep


By the soothing sounds

Of our violins


Before I return

To The HippoCampus Inn


My home

Just

Beneath your skin


(C)

Copyright John Duffy



The Wedding Vows of Lucian

(A lone voice whispers.)




Bind me not to only love

But to true divine friendship


Bind me not to only love

But to the warmth of our wet hungry lips


First thing in the morning

And last thing at midnight


Bind me not to your words to embrace


But to the sweet tranquil noise of two crashing hips


Bind me not to a life of emotional slavery

But to the core of your very soul


Bind me to place

To live 


Inside 

Forever


A place no one

Else


Will ever know


My words to you 

My love


Bind me instead to the bow of your immortal ship


For we can then

Sail together


Into the everlasting

Sunset


And make a home

In a serene place


When our time

Comes


Only those bound

In spiritual wedlock


Can ever go


To hold hands 

To walk 


Barefoot through the falling

Heavenly snow


So don't just bind

Me to a golden ring


Bind me to your

Everything


So standing

In a circle of true love


Our twin's souls

Can sing


And be unified

For we both


Were never locked together 

By the long reach


Of bondage 

Linked to mortal sin


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Friday, August 25, 2023

The Midnight Gardens of Magadorne

 


(A lone voice whispers.)


In The Midnight Garden

When the world sleeps


In Magadorne


I see you

Walking 


Dressed in expensive white lace

With such grace


Surrounded by celestial white butterflies


Serenaded by the sound 

Of a lone mesmerising horn


In an endless garden 

Of twinkling flowers


Reborn


As my soul pines

For the smell of your so-familiar perfume 


A glimpse of our wedding ring


Your hair

Across your beautiful face 


Willing you to look

My way


So I can taste your lips 

As I run my hard fingertips 

Across your soft hips


But you never look

Never see me 


As you and your heavenly entourage


Follow the twinkling flowers


Down to the river

Then to disappear 


Out of sight


This happens to me

Every night


In surreal dreams

When the world sleeps


As I find myself

Stranded


Like a new

Robinson Crusoe


In The Midnight Gardens

Of Magadorne


Where grief lives

In human form


And Mr. Desire

Stands and proudly blows


It's diamond-studded

Horn


To summon 

The celestial butterflies


So watching spirits

In the Ether


Beyond time and space

Can gather


With popcorn

To watch me


Walk my walk


My walk of painful

Memories


In their special inter-dimensional place 


Watching ghosts of the past

Pass by


With no expressions

Or emotional energy 


For they are the only fragments of my past

I treasure


A beloved memory of you 

I remember 

Whenever I wake


I had the pleasure 

To share 



Only but 

Yesterday


In The Midnight Gardens 

Of Magadorne


Where every night

You are reborn




(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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The Golden Thread


 For those enduring grief in these dark year's. 

Salute. 


Book overview

Looking at her head was like staring into a bright ray of glorious sunshine. 

A bright beam of summer with two starry eyes looking back. 

Eyes, which carried such beautiful ever changing pupils within. 

Pupils, which were constantly oscillating from one colour to the next, as she constantly held me firmly within her fixated eyes. 

She spoke. 

"I have a tale to tell you. We have heard you call in the dark of night to the City of God, and I have been sent to speak with you. 

Time is now at a standstill, it no longer ticks. 

We have the endless night. 

You must listen.

You may question when I nod, but not until then. 

Listen, but do not be afraid. 

The Divine One has sent me to deliver this message for you, his brethren and the world. 

We in the Celestial City have heard the cries of the many, the silent prayers of requests, the symphonies of lamentations, the songs of longing - 

Will we see them again vibrates throughout our alabaster corridors.

This is a tale that illuminates Hope in the Darkness of Grief.

 Lifts hearts in moments of Doubts and tells all the readers one thing, how they can defeat the Dark moments in life, when defeat seems inevitable. 

Love. 

Love in all its majesty is the one thing from where all goodness stems. 

Love is the King and Queen of life's emotions. 

The empire from which Kindness, Compassion, Empathy, Charity and Hope flourishes within. 

Love is the greatest gift we can ever bestow to anybody, any creature or any occasion, for it elevates the soul and energizes a weary heart. 

Are you ready for a journey into the unknown? 

Are you ready for the tale of the Golden Thread? 

A tale of such spiritual magnificence, it will forever change your life.

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

Here's the Link to Amazon. The audiobook is highly recommended. 

Poetry and Musings from The Great In-Between


Shouldn't poetry be so visceral, it strikes so deep and reaches the soul? 

A catalogue of supernatural monologues whispered in the darkness. 

Am I just a conduit from The Great In-Between?


As Goddess Aphrodite

With her dark sympathetic eyes watching and

Emitting a supernatural hypnotic aroma
Of almonds

In her fast-flowing white silk gown

Standing on the ominous
Invisible broken banks of שְׁאוֹל

Unspoken grounds of an
Unseen Sheol

She whispers......

Welcome to a collection of stimulating otherworldly prose

Summoned from the shimmering half places where no one really visits or goes in

The Great In-Between

Gathered in the Years of Everlasting Change to Modern Society

Known as the Covid Years starting in the year of our Lord

2020 to the 14th of April 2021

A gathering of light and dark delicious supernatural prose

To indulge an inquisitive mind on any lonely rainy day

Wherever they are as in this deceptively deep life

They still run

Read on
Knowing they who watch standing silently behind me

Just hiding in these flickering shadowy spaces are also within you in that very room

For you’ve unknowingly summoned them all by reading all these opening lines

Conjured from the many dark halls from the Dark Castle of Apollos Keep

We advance as one and it's so glad to finally meet you

Shall we begin with tales of light and dark emotional overtures

Linked to morality and sin and whatever else they've seen

Which echo from here to eternity within these alabaster grey walls

Now say after me
Immediately

So Mote It Be!

(C)
Copyright John Duffy



The Sacred Tree