. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Have you heard the secret music yet?

 


As we are born


Does a band start

Playing


A soft melody

To serenade us


As we slowly age


Do those we love

Take our spirits hands

And slowly dance


When we embrace

Love


Does the band

Play faster


As we twirl

Spiritually


As deep secrets

Are unfurled


Does it slow

To a whisper


As we are betrayed

Stranded


Partnerless

And emotionally waylaid


But still 

Does it play


Maybe a low melodic

Hum


Maybe a single

Beat of a drum


But still it plays


Regardless of how

Your life

Seems to never run


And dark days seems

Bereft of fun


Is

The ethereal music


Simply waiting in

The shadows


Beyond earthly eyes

And ears


Waiting once

Again 


To

Play loud


To watch two

Lonely spirits


Take the floor

And slow dance


To its famous tune 

Of


Est-ce l'Amour


(Is this Love)


A melody to

Seranade us

Into the dark


Before we cross

Over


And enter

A brand new park


Copyright John Duffy 

#poetry #life #relationships

Sunday Musing


Sunday Musings

Would you sacrifice all your unrestrained moments of self-imposed solitude

Just for a few evocative silver dimes 

To pay the Bondsman
To sail adrift 

Upon the treasured mystical schooner called Spiritual Attraction.

Just to be maybe seduced 
As your Life's sands
Shift

Or perhaps be eventually marooned

Would you still risk all
To finally walk barefoot and naked through Red and Black

Gardens of carnally addictive sins

Would you still wander lost through harsh ethereal sandstorms 

And emotional soul-draining monsoons

To simply find the right people to help make your heart 

Really ring out and sing

Would you pay the Toll Master 

To climb metaphorical dark mountains peaks and conquer

Seemingly endless fast-flowing tribulations of doubts 

Of the flesh 

To make your knees buckle 
And drop you to your hands 

Weak

Would you still sacrifice and risk all 

To find the ones who make your heart sing

Like those forgotten pilgrims upon 

Magnificent quests
Littered throughout history

Will you take off that seemingly immutable mask 

And light a candle to illuminate all your dark mysteries

To willfully stand naked

With fear residing tethered firmly 

In its Nine Circles Of Irreducibility

Are you brave enough to expose your innermost undertows 

And your libido's deepest vulnerabilities

If so 

You may be ready to walk in and ride within real Technicolor dreams 

Where happiness and completeness

Can't be bought with blood money or shiny diamonds 
That gleam

Are you ready to spend some of those much coveted evocative silvery dimes 

To sail adrift upon the treasured mystical schooner called Spiritual Attraction

To finally find the only one to utter 

You're mine

Whose name 
Dark skies whisper currently unseen

To eventually hold hands tightly 

As you both journey to lasciviously seductive mellifluous lands 

Where those escaping reality flee

And upon arrival 
Be ceremonially announced and saluted

By ghostly marching bands 
For free

Do you wish to slow dance sensuously

As your dimes are spent and willingly accepted unquestionably

As time slowly flows

To walk like a beacon 
Into the darkness of your omniverse 

Filled with dreams of assignations of the flesh

(I hope so)

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

 

Friday, November 10, 2023

The Winter Monsoon

 


 Drifting on a lone cloud

I sing


Of things

Once seen


With

The Sun and Moon


Who

Know my name


For they too

Rise

And set


The world over 

In pain

    

So I dream

Oh 

I dream again


Whispering to them both

O tell of me


O tell of me

Friends


Will I dream alone

Until the end


And into solitude

Descend


Or will wisdom's spirit 

Fly to me

 

So tell me

O tell me


Friends 

Sun and Moon


Will I wander

With this hole


In my endless 


Dark Night 

Of the Soul


Or will my world 

My Great Seal


Hear me

And help me

Heal


So Tell me

O Tell me


Friends


Was all revealed 

From beginning


About the end


When I caught

Her white feather

Spinning


So

Tell me


O tell me 


Elemental Spirits and

Friends


I call to you

Both


O

Sky and Moon


Will I love once more

And open

A new door


To feel what's

Real


In this endless quest


As I try to pass

All tests

Once set


Or will 

Whispers


From Sun and

Moon


Tell me 

To wait


For

She comes


Riding

On waves


Of The Winters

Monsoon


And to still sing


The lost echoes

Of this


 A once-lost

Tune


Called


The Beauty

Who rides


The Waves

Of 

The Winter Monsoon


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


        



 Drifting on a lone cloud

I sing


Of things

Once seen


With

The Sun and Moon


Who

Know my name


For they too

Rise

And set


The world over 

In pain

    

So I dream

Oh 

I dream again


Whispering to them both

O tell of me


O tell of me

Friends


Will I dream alone

Until the end


And into solitude

Descend


Or will wisdom's spirit 

Fly to me

 

So tell me

O tell me


Friends 

Sun and Moon


Will I wander

With this hole


In my endless 


Dark Night 

Of the Soul


Or will my world 

My Great Seal


Hear me


So Tell me

O Tell me


Friends


Was all revealed 

From beginning


About the end


When I caught

Her white feather

Spinning


So

Tell me


O tell me 


Elemental Spirits and

Friends


I call to you

Both


O

Sky and Moon


Will I love once more

And open

A new door


In this endless quest


As I try to pass

All tests

Once set


Or will 

Whispers


From Sun and

Moon


Tell me 

She comes


On the waves

Of The Winters

Monsoon


And to still sing


The lost echoes

Of this


 A once-lost

Tune


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


        

Thursday, November 9, 2023

Monologue of a Warrior God


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Salute. 


 (A lone voice whispers.)


I speak this 

Just like another verse

Following me


In a black hearse 

On my life’s many journeys


A love song to myself

And you


Linked to my eternal sorrow

Trying to fix all your tomorrow's


To create a tale to tell

All new listeners


In the morrow


When they summon my memory

By ringing my golden bells


When I break

This dark Necromancer's Spell


Remembering 

Misfortunes

Suffered

And some deeds


Need to be rebuilt and grew


Things and people 

To be build-up

And renewed


To show them what they didn't do

To help them go where they didn't go


For when humanities spellbound

By a simulated show

Like this


Deprived 

Of a taste of life's sweet kiss


And lost in dark skies

Beyond a Paris

Once created


Trying to live a new life 

In primaeval markets 

Of the Medieval


Where each call  

Is Answered


By old wishes

Now diseased


Lost in a 

A New Age 


Where night and day

Merge


In a perfect storm

A perfect symmetry


Of secret societies

Working in harmony


To separate you and I


I go to war


And it's strange

How we bleed inside 

Because of this need


With internal skies 

Full of memories

Missed


So here I stand

With golden glory 


To tell hints of my old story


I


The inferior God once designed by Sophia's raw desire


I

Her lit fire


The Demiurge

The Gnostic Creator God 

 

An Old Testament 

Who now walks out 


Of his stronghold

Into this world's cold


To repair

The stranglehold


Of The Old Beast

Of Revelations


Once foretold


Send me strength

As I step out 

In prayers


And always believe 


Cum Fide ad Lucem magna res evenire potest.


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


With Faith in The Light, great things can happen.


Wednesday, November 8, 2023

The Secret Book of Dzyan


Press play and let the music wash over you as you read. 

Salute. 

 




As the Mage watched from afar, through remote viewing. 
He channelled a secret prayer to the brightest star in the four winds.

As he assumed the meditation pose.

He began reciting his evocation to the spirit guides, watching from the 5th Levels of the Astral Realms.

For them to take it back to her, from Beyond the Purple Rainbows.
As they swirled all around him. 


(A lone voice whispers.)


_________________________


Your dark eyes are like priceless blue oceans 
I whisper to the watching Elementals


I dream to dive in deep 
And drown within

For they are deeper than any of the known lakes


To bathe in their once-tasted waters


Is where I want me to always fall
And reveal my soul 
As it experiences its first taste of sin



For your inquisitive eyes
Soft tender lips and smooth skin


Are treasures 
I seek where I'd nightly kneel
To pray 


For a new Atlantis
To be reborn
Within


Your eyes 
Are like magnetic dark portals


For my souls
Astral nightly projections 


As I conquer 
Its many strange citizens
With my own occult powers

To reach you

Defeating 
On one of its many long ethereal roads
 

Architects of so many devious deceptions 


Just to see your twin eyes 
For they are like the best friends


Love could ever possibly buy 
And it’s why
I just love popping by


To rejoice in
 The Coming of our own Divine Invasions


The once lost words
Recitals and such memories 
Of succulent prose


Once written for your eyes only 

Are just my own divine stanzas
Like those

Once written in 
The Secret Books of Dzyan


silver shimmering sea
Where we will soon forever fly

Like dark eagles

Paired 
Forever wild and untamed

For as our lonely souls once met
So long ago 

In the Great In-Between


We were anointed to be simply 
Free and Unchained


And it's why I always pray to return
To finally conjure you into life

And your love to earn

But until then 
I'll just breathe you 

Into
Dreams


Copyright John Duffy

 

Epithalamion for Athena

  



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A lone voice whispers


I first saw you 
In a wild dream

Riding a white horse  
Dressed from head to toe

In racy red 
And racing green

In the lost lands  
Of The Great In-Between

While scrying  
The Tragic Darklands

Using Ayahuasca magic  
Hoping you wouldn't see

For you looked so serene  
It made my soul's lust levels

Scream out tragic prose

Which talented poets 
Could use

To write new gospels

For you looked like 
A midnight queen

Breaking through a dark lull

To look over your empires 
Shadows and green meadows  


But you saw me  
Looking

Seeing a reflection 
Of me

In your own handheld  
Obsidian 
Scrying mirror

And made my spirit 
Shiver

Oh  
My blood ran 
Like a wild river  
That day

For even though 
I knew then  

I loved you 
In a sacred way

My old love  
Called Life

In the land of the Living
Who are all men and women

Husbands and wives
Always whispered

Forgive her

For she needs more time
With me

For I'm like a wet teardrop
That she can't stop

I know what you've done
Though

You've put a spell on me
And it now follows me 
Around

Everywhere I go
Like a hollowed-out curse
As I walk under the sun  


I don't know why I always 
Run

When you appear  
In my silver scrying mirror

Since inside

When I scry away  
To wastelands
Where lost fools play

I always cry and think

Maybe  
On another day

When my old love leaves  
You can stay

I didn't mean to break 
Your heart 

And tear you apart

But Lifes 
Like a She-Devil  

Who I love
As I still live and breathe

And I know  
It doesn't care  
  
But when I saw you 
In a wild dream

As I stared  
Into 
The Great In-Between

Dressed in white lace 
And racing green

After our first meeting

Whilst  
Scrying  
Those Dark Lands  
Of gushing smoke

So you wouldn't see

You looked too beautiful 
To be real

I know that sounds so crazy  
But it made my soul's lust levels

Scream out a wild symphony  
But then you saw me

Smiling

In my Scrying Mirror  
And made my soul shiver

Oh, 
My poor blood ran 
Like a wild river

For now, I'm cursed to love you  
Even More

But my old love  
Who I adore

Life

Says forgive her

She needs more time  
With me  


For I'm like a wet teardrop  
That needs time to stop

I know what you've done  
For it follows me around  
Now

Like a hollowed-out curse  
As I walk under the sun

But The Bayou Queen says
On the sixth of December

You'll hold me  
As my old wife surrenders

So that date remember

For on the sixth of December  
You'll hold me

So that date remember

For she says

We'll then be together  
Forever

In all weathers

But until then  
Save our prophecy

Our Deuterogamy

So we can play
That eternal game

And fall in love  
On that holy day

When I can no longer find 
A sad reason
To run away  


(C)  
Copyright John Duffy


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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

The Voice of Diana

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(A lone voice whispers)


Pray to Argento 

The Eternal Seer


And she'll soon appear 


From the Constellations 

Her sacred Sphere


To summon Elpis


To spread love and peace

To all she encounters 


Who prays to hear  

For their salvation 


So 

Look to the faraway stars 


Look 


For she comes 

From God's Silver City


When called

Beyond 

The Great Beyond 


For your salvation


To end all your wars 

In all nations


For your hearts redemption 


So

Dance and

Feel her raw power 


Heal your scars


Bang Bang 

The Bass drums 


Bang the Remo Quadura 

At any given hour 


For The Goddess

Comes 


For your inspiration 


From the Great In-Between 

To save you


The masses 


Drifting through all weather's 


Summoned by the call of your soul's tambourine 


Like a white feather 

For reconciliation 


To release you 


Free from fear 

At this ungodly hour


At the brink of worldwide destruction 


So dance 

In your spirits salt circle 


 

Scream and shout 

Feel her magnetic power 


Play the drums 

Wildly 


So your soul can flower


For salvation 



Shake your inner 

Black Swamp Percussion Tambourine 


To celebrate her


Remember to ask for forgiveness 


As you dance 

Like a random river 


Scream like a banshee 

For all to see 


Gather up 

All the courage 


That you'll ever need 


And call out 


Praise be 

Praise be


And 

Sing  


For your forgiveness 


Sing for her 


Sing 


I need forgiveness 

Argento


Send me 

The Goddess 


Send me  

Elpis


To be my witness 

So I may acquiesce 


Send the goddess 

Hear me and say yes 


Blessed be 

Blessed be 


Argento 

Save me 


Blessed be

Send me Elpis 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Elpis (Hope) was also an ancient Greek goddess; 


she saved mankind from all the evils of the world that had been unleashed by Pandora,


when she opened her jar and scattered its contents.