The Ministry of Ezra

Press play before reading. Salute

(A lone voice whispers)

   

This is to you 

My life's only pleasure

Now my life's sunsets are spent and sunk forever 

For at the end of all my once long rigorous days

I now stand lost and lonely 

In these dark woods

Of Reflection

Like a young Puck

In a tragic Midsummer's daydream that's all mine

One where my heart would beat on perpetual fire if it could

One with my ears filled with whispering spellbinding words

That no longer take me higher

With introspection

And when the ever-watchful Moon retires

I always watch from here

Behind this silver shimmering barrier 

Of The Great In-Between 

And think as the new Sun of the Living 

Rises

Are we all simply silent prayers blowing

Like soft tender snowflakes

In an endless night

Each carrying quiet songs filled with woe

Love and all human emotions that make us glow 

Skywards

Just to be lost in whirlwinds of Heavens glittering golden dust

Symphonies of hearts ablaze

And screaming for someone to just love and trust

And even though now my time living has expired

I still feel rapturous but always blue

As my now silent heart tries to sing love songs

For just you

I know as long as I still exist in here

As tall as the high nights and as long as the wide days 

I hope my God-given prayers

Will be answered with my souls cries to be rescued

For when the final sunset has gone and died

And this dark night 

I wander in

Stalks all the lands

Even your lands

When the low Angelic Drums 

Announcing The Book of Revelations 

Rumble

And the old black and white pianos start to scream and sing

Declaring openly the arrival of Seven Angels foretold

When the eerie white noise 

Between the Living and the Dead is no longer cold

And falls like a crimson stage curtain 

Once again 

I pray I'm certain 

Hopefully 

I’ll stand like a Tolkien King 

Proudly on the Tired Bridge of Broken Dreams 

With you as my newly returned queen

Living in a new scene

Beyond the barriers of The Great In-Between

Where my broken heart no longer cries out 

As we watch the Purging on Judgement Day

Of all the Immoral Fools

Tainted and marked with the many forms of its seductive disease 

Standing strong and happy like Megara and Hercules 

Until then

My love

I'll wait patiently for you

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Do you do this with your memories?

 Do old memories (5)

Materialize quickly (7)

At random moments (5)

And from their sounds and visual delights

Aren't we just hoarders of all we feel

To carry like thieves

Into 

The longest of dark nights 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Halloween Dark Poetry

 (A soft seductive voice, whispers.)

In this

The darkest hour

In the Great Pit

Where I wield 

Total power

Sitting beside

IT

Read this 

In this moment

Silently and patiently

For your soul

To be deliriously deflowered

On Halloween 

Meum

Imperium me

Ita fiat illud

Be (L)

By me

The Un-Hallowed Queen

Of all sinful slaves

Just lurking

Tonight

Like a funnel-web spider

Waiting to bite

From the Great In-Between

When The Black Gates open

On Halloween 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Translation since I know you read the open invitation: 

Own me

Control me

So mote it

Be

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Have you tried the occult drug called Phantasia?

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Memories of past light and even dark worlds

Linked to love and transgressions of the soul

To prophecies of illusions and future ghosts 

From soon-to-be-explored realms 

Of once forbidden 

Hidden inner emotional planets

Unexplored to most

And to Phantasia

Where all your desires can run wild 

Like a feral young child 

In a new big playground

Where standing still 

Is a curse

A blasphemy

As the Past 

Future and 

Piped Dreams 

From The Great In-Between 

Merge

Living free past all barriers 

Restrictions 

Laws and permits

A simple second at a time

For to know this is a discovered blessing

The consecrated can self-baptize in

And to put it 

To work 

In a creation linked to

Music

Films

Books

Art

Or divine Poetry

Is a spiritual blessing

Even

Watching souls

Like you 

Consume

From all-time frequencies

With lustful eyes

For it's a secret libation

Called 

Particles of

Ultra-Violet illumination 

Not earned by the Mundane 

Who still wears

The heavy silvery chains 

Of consumption and materialism

Linked to living on

The human plane

Of Existence

So to them

That potion is

Out of their range

And spiritual domain

For they emit such frequencies of resistance 

But to you

The writers and poets

Revel in the secret rites

Of Phantasia

A potion to consume

To express

The real you

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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What is the origin of the word Phantasia?

Greek φαντασία (phantasía, 'imagination') in its basic meaning is connected with φαίνεσθαι (phaínesthai, 'to come to light, to appear. 

Libation. 

An act or instance of drinking often ceremoniously

Mundane. 

Lacking interest or excitement; dull.

"his mundane, humdrum existence"

The Love Boat

 

Love once came too late 

Sailing in 

Merrily

On a cherry red Schooner

With standard bearers

Of bright blue and gold

To warm up

My weary heart

Which had grown

Cold

But as the years 

Passed

It sailed back 

Into The Dark Lands of

The Untold

With my old lover

My Captain

Steering the wheel

On how I miss

Her warm touch and feel

Now just mere memories

I return too

To steal

Oh 

How I wish

She'd turned that emotional wheel

And returned to me

But that cherry red Schooner 

Soon sailed

Away 

Without even a wave

So on these sombre shores

Of Disenchantment

I sometimes look

Back

In silent detachment 

At what could have been

If I had stood

Beside her 

At that wheel

But my old love sailed

Away

Merrily

In a cherry red Schooner

With standard bearers

Of bright blue and gold

Bringing cold

To my tired heart

Which had grown

Weary and old

So as these sad years 

Pass

If I'm asked 

Have you known love

I just reply 

Once 

So long ago

But now it's sailed back

Into The Dark Lands 

Of The Untold

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

The Dream Queen

Remember me

In the low hours

When you are weak 

And have lowered

Your powerful barriers

Remember me

As that tsunami of furious fire

That once reenergized you

In those dark years

When you were alone 

And tired

Remember me

By looking at my picture

The one I sent you

As my holy scripture

Remember me when you are old 

Standing brightly as the early morning sun 

Even though your memories are getting cold

And fading away

As the hours and seconds

Run

Remember me

So I may stay

To give you comfort

Until you too are recalled

To float away

Someday

Remember me

My love 

So I can come to you

To swim

Reunited

In the Holy Sea

Remember me

As your true spiritual devotion

Who you never met in physical flesh

But one

Who wrote down 

In his pre-life road map

With his spirit guide

In another

Far away nation

I want to meet someone so extraordinary 

Someone worldwide

Who will show me such poetic wonders 

Before I once more walk 

In the heavenly tides

Of the Holy Sea

And then I met you

Mesmerised 

By all

I could see

So that's why I pray

Each and every night

So you'll remember me

As I wait here

Walking barefoot and alone

In the swirling tides

Of The Holy Sea

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

 

The Angel of Fatima

 (A lone voice whispers.)

Sometimes

In sight of such mindless violence

In this deep silence

I kneel to pray

In these grey shadows

That peace will

Prevail 

One day

In your world

That mountain tops 

Worldwide

Will joyously sing with unconstrained laughter

And in defiance

As we 

The Watchers

Angels

From the Great Hereafter 

Smile

As our Silver Towers 

In Heaven

Hum with a sweet medley 

Of 

Praise Be

Praise Be

For

Sinners below

Will be baptised

In a new sea of Galilee

By a reborn John the Baptist

To be winners

To find true love 

Walking freely

 

Now 

In opened forests

Pleading to be plundered

Daydreaming souls

Will no longer need to wander

In frantic visions

Alone

Since purification, not self scarification

Will lead them to divine wonders 

To block their pyramids of pain

With 

Hope's capstone

Will you 

Call to me

When the moon's

High

Past the trees

Hiding the skies

When the Eclipse 

Comes

For I can see and sense you 

Need that feeling

A loud drumbeat of need

That screams

Pleading

So

Will you open those tired arms

And let me in

So I may with sunlit kisses

Swim in all your inner vestibules

Sanctify all you know

As we dance as one

To a new song

Announced by life-changing fast-moving octaves

As a glorious world 

Is built upon the many graves of

The secret slaves

Of an old empire 

Of such depravity and corruptible sin

With their rich leaders 

Just the seen knaves

Controlled by hidden hands

Of those

Our prayers

Can never save

©

Copyright John Duffy

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A soft voice sings

 (A lone voice calling herself, Faith, sings.) 

Let me purify old memories 

To be purged

For I alone 

Own all sacred keys

To embrace all vulnerabilities 

So you can be reborn 

With new responsibilities 

A whole new identity to be earned

To set you free

So you can be

The best 

For all to see 

As your new life runs 

To go so far

No more prisoner to tears 

To treasure the deep divine 

No longer to worship sin

No longer to taste more tears

Just let me be there

When you want me 

To hear you call 

Before you fall

Love infused with honesty 

Merged with trust and loyalty

For all the watching world to see

For we are friends 

Till the very end

Whatever this sad world 

Dares to bring

Just let me in

To be the reason

As your heart prays for something

Whatever the year 

Or season

For I'm that one thing 

That has saved 

Endless queens or kings 

And countless broken 

And destitute

The many the rich 

Love to prosecute

Who I listen to 

Even more 

Wherever they sing

Will you let me 

Purify old memories 

That need to be purged

For I alone 

Own all sacred keys

Just pray 

To call for me 

For my name is Faith 

And I'll appear 

To follow 

To help you break 

Those chains 

To set your soul free

©

Copyright John Duffy

My Life's Nurse

 

(A lone voice whispers in the dark) 

Her gentle graceful touches are so beautiful and incredibly captivatingly 

Soothing  

They seem to play a delightful melody 

To vanquish all my mortal fears  

Like the rarest of heavenly sunsets 

That emerges with a twinkling smile 

In the midst of pink and red frontiers  

When time itself 

Appears to stop flexing and moving  

Swirling like a god-like deity 

In a newly lit sky  

She is the quintessence of glamour 

In a night-time high society ball  

Filled with dancing masked courting fireflies

Who watches her every fluid movement 

In jaw-dropping awe  

When they pause to rest on one of my beautifully 

Wallpapered walls  

A rare evening 

Serenading the gathering of a few enamoured spirits  

Where honoured souls 

Gather in their best dresses 

And bespoke suits to readily confess  

Her delicate hands 

Move like Mother Moon 

Gently over my trembling horizons  

Whispering my secret name 

And claiming me as her domain  

For we are now consummate lovers 

And no longer just worldly friends  

A bright new world is always breathed into light a

And lost in delicious touches 

In that spectacular twilight  

For under the gaze of my devotion  

I can only reflect her love in my hazel-coloured lens  

The darkness surrounding us 

Like an old friend

Sings a lasting symphony 

Of happiness and lingers in the celestial 

As angels watch and smile  

No man-made treaties 

Or paper laws 

Can separate us  

For now, our passions in the midnight sun  

Soon will wildly run  

We'll never lose this particular twilight 

And these baptised rays will never lose their red and pink hue  

For when we first met  

I'll always remember 

That I willingly sunk knee-deep 

Into your green and blue  

For in that magical transference of spiritual energy  

I knew in that metaphysical moment 

Why God had sent me and it's why now  

I'll always belong to just you.

(C)

Copyright John Duffy