. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Elham Speaks

 

(A lone voice whispers)


Hey you

My curious reading friend


One of the bright lights 

Not tempted or dimmed by consumerism


Big Tec and all it dumbs down 

As it slowly infects


Thanks for visiting me at Halloween

In 2023 again 


Did you know all Time is just like a slow-moving river


And you're all walking unconsciously upstream 


Through its wet ever-flowing waters 


Of glistening gold and silver


As it flows from the Great Lights

Many hidden fissures 


Walking upstream towards your own inevitable end


Wandering alongside all those you respect 

Adore or even hate


But if you're lucky

Like I think and know you are


You'll be forever surrounded by incredible extraordinary people 


Who'll all try to support and help you


Find the profound strength to empower and fire up your dreams 


Like a Drag car engine


And not fall 

As you try to walk upstream



Those from the Lands of the Living and those from in here  


Your ancestors like your much-loved forefathers or beloved mothers


Uncle's or Aunties

Sisters or brothers


All watching from just behind this Blue Portal


Here in the Great In-Between 


Who wants you to succeed in this

The oldest of great games


Playing your role in the grandest of Schemes


This is my new message that I send all the way from Jagaroo's Cove


Just for those like you


Who may need it

So they can live by a new code 


As they walk through those cold waters 

Which will for Eternity

Flow


I can only pray it helps you cope 


More than you'll ever comprehend 


It's simple really


If you're lonely

Neglected or feel rejected


Reach out to someone

Anyone


Or just talk it through 

In the light 


Never in the dark


For you're never alone before you ascend 


And someone will create a bridge 

To a new form of happiness


Through an act of inconceivable magic 


Some know as kindness

Some as The Laws of Attraction


But action in whatever name 


To help dispel those dark clouds brought about by one of life's eternal elementals


Mr Tragic


Tasked to collect walkers early for his master


The Grim Reaper


Just be courageous to talk as you walk



Until the next time 

Your forever friend

From within the long Shadows



Standing getting wet 

In the gold and silver river that never bends


Elham 

The Lost Angel 


Praying your soul is soon purified and cleansed


Through a small act of magic 

Whenever needed 


As you walk upstream 


To see the soul-lifting sights at the End




(C)

Copyright John Duffy

 

Sunday, October 29, 2023

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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Saturday, October 28, 2023

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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Thursday, October 26, 2023

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

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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


 

Monday, October 23, 2023

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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Sunday, October 22, 2023


 

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

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