. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Friday, June 7, 2024

Halcyon Dreaming


 Halcyon Dreaming


With the unpredictable rise of AI


And its many levels of intrusion, into both business and personal life. 


Do you wish sometimes


You could just escape to somewhere less tech-obsessed? 


A haven with old black

Remington typewriters


Pens


Verbal communication

With others just like you


Deep discussions of poetry


Love and heartbreak

Linked to societies plight


In campfire lit nights


As your children enjoyed the great outdoors


Safely


Lured away from gaming platforms


As life long childhood friendships are formed 


With unrestrained laughter 


Safe in the knowledge 

They don't have to compete or fight 


A bubble within time

When the good old days


Like those you once had the privilege to enjoy


Weren't tainted by social media or crime


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 





Tuesday, June 4, 2024

Atonement Dreaming

 Press play.


Atonement Dreaming


(A broken man sings as the sunsets while nature pauses and listens)


Loving You

Is still so easy


The husky voice 

That sweet smile


Lighting up my life

With your Love


Like lightning 

For a country mile 


As it still frees 

Me


So when my sun finally sets


And my tired eyes 

No longer 

Need to get wet


As I take my last breath

I'll remember 


Loving you was easy

And why it still frees me


The husky voice 

That sweet smile


Lighting up 

My life

With your Love


Like lightning 

For a country mile 


And that's why

I'll always 

Love and remember you


For your love

For a guy like me


Will always echo

Into eternity 


For loving you 

Is still so easy


For your sweet love

Once helped 

Save me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

 

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Sunday, June 2, 2024

The Voice of Malachy


 The Voice of Malachy

Do you
Sometimes need 

To
Go deep 
To the Eternal well 

To use and meet the 
Mother and Goddess 

Of Poetry
And feed her

With hand written pieces of your pulsating soul

In quiet hours

To be given
In an exchange of transmuted powers

Contracts of Redemption

To embrace a deliverance from sin and to find freedom 

From all strands of captivity

In whatever forms

So your soul can be
Healed cleansed and transformed

To once 
Again 

Flower with salvation 
As you bravely 

Walk through any storm
And grow

I can only hope and pray 
You do so

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

The Monologue of the Enlightened Soul

(A lone voice whispers)



When you take a physical form in this plane of existence 


In time and space


You also manifest an astral body


To help you run your race


In Kashmir Shaivism 


We call it puryashtaka rupa which is Sanskrit


In case you didn't know it


And just like the physical form


Your astral body has the same nervous system and these nerve currents are called Hita Nadis


And within these nerve currents pass the true beauty of you 


Your 

This is me moment

Like spiritual electricity 


Saving every moment of your life ready for your next incarnation 


For when it's time to reincarnate


We never die you know

We just walk to a new gate


And all that stored information is used in your update


For you become what your consciousness


Or subconsciousness 

Craves or hates


For you and you 

Alone 


Are the creators of your own heaven or hell


Creating 

Traumatic or ecstatic situations 


For your soul to grow and be ready for a better time 


In the next round


So 

If you're going through a hard time


Are lonely 

Unloved

Or feel weary 


Don't worry 

It will soon get better 


Good times appear when you least expect it


And like a rainbow


Your life will soon shine

With a multitude of colors 


Everywhere you go


Just remember Perseverance will be your eventual deliverance


And if you're having a good life


Are loved

Happy and content 


Smile 


Your struggles and kindness paid off in your previous life


Wherever you came from or went


In ending 

Don't take life too serious


You will get another chance 


So fill your puryashtaka rupa


In this life


With as many incredible moments as you can


Help to be kind

When you can


Live with any form of love

You may find


And maybe the One'ness


Will reward you

In your next lifetime 


For you 

And only you


Are your soul's

Producer


For when you come back

Do want a better life


Or a hard one that could lead to an early heart attack 

 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


 


 

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Apokalypsis Visions


While hearing about the US in particular, giving permission to Ukraine, to strike deeper into Russia territories.


Are we as a society, on the threshold of nuclear war?


Apokalypsis Visions


(A lone voice whispers)


A symbolic door stands unopened


That leads to the destruction of liberty of the mind


To the birth of megatons of mushroom clouds of death and bright white light 


And never-ending darkness 

Left in its tide


A door trying to be opened by secret cabals


With spear tipped lies 


A doorway to rows of dirt ridden coffins 


Of all races 

And rows of freshly graves 


For the left behind 

To dig


A passageway to bullet filled skies exploding in a rain of pain


Night and day


A new place where good people turn to ash grey and millions get glazed


A time of no call from on high


As weeping cries

Fill thunderous skies


All this I saw


An emptiness growing and while burning buildings fell


As multitudes of new singers yelled


Alguien nos salve

(Someone save us)


In all that madness 

I saw a tiny smouldering home 


In the rumble


With a yellow plaque

On a burning wooden door


That read and spoke of hope 


It said


Trust in the Lord

He knows your struggle


And as that burning building burnt


As the smell of destruction and chaos swept the land


Announced by drumbeats of fear that shook concrete flowers 


Trying to grow in mounds of little dirt 


A vision was shown 

With such power


My brain hurt and

This I leave you with

In ending 


At the brink of that ungodly hour 


When seas turn from blue to red 


As black skies

Fills with souls of the dead


When violent storms and hurricanes wed


Mankind will be backed into a carefully planned trap


Mapped by those who care not of peace 


With no shame

But with a new world to gain


Names once told

Outlining this 

Familiar to the herd


Now drift like lone icebergs in the cold


When wicked crones 

Fly death bringing drones 


When white flags

Carried by Banner men 

Go into smoke ruined cities


Pretending to show pity 


Turn up

With cages 

Ready 


In tarpaulin covered trucks 

Know there is still hope


For even though countries stand


Hand in hand 

Led by the Cabals


Marching band 


Singing battle songs of war and glory


Behind that metaphorical door 


Hope still

Precariously lives 

With so much to give


Beyond the warm embrace 


Of the ash clouds and death of so many races


The coming of Banner men and their hidden cages 

And a new black sun


For you must march and pray for peace


Pray that door isn't opened in the Middle East


For the cost 

When all is lost 


Will be like in 

The Book of Revelations


But like always 


With a belief beyond the reach of the seven-headed beast


Light will always defeat darkness


For It's what all faiths

Preach for


In the purity of the soul


When engaging 

With their version of the supernatural stillness 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Is the world truly corrupt?


Title:

The Indentured Slaves of Society 

The Dark Angel of Corruption and Death 

Came smiling down like Old Nick

In black judges robes 
Shining bright

Like a burning fire in a cold night 

Leaving poisoned spears tipped with dollars and diamonds

In political halls and 
Vast institutions

In silence 

Waiting for new fools
To find them

Only to then appear with violence 

To pierce their side 

Like he on the cross
At Golgotha 
Who died

So they
Like pine needles 
In the wind

Blow and bow
To a new tune

For their forests will never be green

Their sunsets will all no longer gleam

For their new leader and host 

The Ghost 
Of Corruption and Death 

Has spread his wings 
So the newly corrupted must sing 

Victoria 
Victoria

Victoria a la corrupciĆ³n y la muerte

Victoria 
Victoria

Victoria a la corrupciĆ³n y la muerte

Victory 
Victory 

Victory to corruption and death

Victory to corruption and death

As they handcuffed by greed and power

No longer flower

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

My Last Letter

 Press play.


My last letter

It came from the East
Smiling
All slender and ash grey 

Wearing a white wedding veil

As it came my way 
In the year of 1941

With the cold rise of the early morning sun

On the 20th of May  

When the German airborn arrived 
To join the Battle of Crete 

She came slowly walking up

Down that murky street
In the smoky ash and mud 

Barefoot
In faded Somerset white

With bag pipes playing 

Grey eyes and broken red tipped finger nails

With a scent of death 
And grave

The beast takes many forms

He took all my friends that day

Bill
Terry
Paul and 
Big Norm

That smiling wedding bride took their hands

When 
They got shot and died

I saw it all 
In the smoke 
And cried

For second sight 
Have I

And when she called to take Big Norm

As I watched her shimmering form

She whispered

She you in 2024
On May the 30th

Look for me 
Listen for the bagpipes 
I come at dawn

Then she took Big Norm's hand

And they both walked away

Crying 

Followed the music of bagpipes playing Going Home

And cries 
Amongst the bullets flying

Of the dying

I prayed as I stood
Alone

At the end of that day

And now it's 2024
And the dawn of May on the 30th

Soon she comes

For the faint noise 
Of bagpipes playing

Are making this rattling noise in my lungs

But I'm not scared

Bill
Terry
Paul and
Big Norm 

Are all waiting for me there

For I'm 
Going home

 For I'm 
Going home

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

The Monologue of the Lost Soul


EThe Monologue of The Lost Soul


Scene: 


A middle aged man.

Unshaven.

Surrounded by photo albums.


And cobwebs.


Kneels in front of an aging shrine to his dearly departed wife.

At midnight.


And prays 


(A lone voice whispers)


O Lord

King of all Spirits and Fates


Why do I 

With sleepless eyes


Still seek a love that's died


Am I a foe

Seeking forgiveness 

In lullabies 


In knee-worship prayers

With a broken heart of catacombs


Where fear lives

Now it has found its

Home


As I once reached out

To the Ether

And cried


When she crossed over

To the Otherside


With sullen eyes


Am I cursed to never sleep


To never again know 

To treat or feel her


My sin eater and preacher


As demons and angels From past delights


Like Demeter and the old Unwashed Redeemer 


Walk past 

Like pale shadows

In endless nights


And smile


When sleep 

I do fight


On Monarch 

Lord


And King of all that's Right


Pray for me 


Go that extra mile

And open a window 


So I can reach her


In sleep

Tonight 


To see her

My teacher


My speaker


And who like

Mary

Was a true believer 


Who now lives within

Your kingdom 


As she's found holy freedom 


Pray we can wander hand in hand


In The Great Underground Stream

As I dream


Tonight 


In a new

Garden of Eden 


Amen

For

 I'm so useless


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

    

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