. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Did you know


 

Are you a slave to the invisible system?


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Hey you 


Are you a slave to the invisible system


Just another unknowing

Victim 


Who works 8 to live 4

48 hours to enjoy twenty four


Sleep five before you go out the door


To a thirty minute meal

And think it's a steal 


For two weeks in the hot sun


Is that

My silent viewer


How in this lifetime 

You run


Dreaming to work

Until you retire


Then too old 

To do all the things


You once dreamed of

Or desired


Let this poem ignite your inner fire


Break the chains of invisible indentured slavery


Find a new way

To live your life free

With bravery


Give the invisible system

A smile


And learn to play dirty


Holiday more

Dream bigger


Open a door to love

Create music


Write a book or even a piece of poetry 


So live a real life 

Use it


For one day

You'll be too sick

To take risks


Just old and tired

Filled with dreams and desires


Waiting for

Old Nick 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Monday, July 8, 2024

אשלם

 

(A lone voice whispers)


Every night

Before I dream


I silently command my

Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels


With a silent אשלם


(I surrender)


To take me beyond the

Black Darkness

I always see


As I close my deep brown eyes


To use their invisible hands

To tear away the dark rim


Before my ever watchful

Twin pyres


To show me

The real mysteries 


People and places

What lies truly beyond


For me

To venture into newer

Undiscovered lands


To see

The bright lights of the two suns


The quartet of multicoloured rainbows.

Illuminating a purple-hued sky


A place where no one

No longer dies


A paradise of ever swirling winds of a whispered profound love


Filled with scents of the sublime 


Perpetually

Emanating from a deep divine


Just always watching from

High up Above


A sanctuary lost forever

To many of the living


Within the forgiving reeds of time


For they lack the will to summon it so


A place to be reunited

With dear old family or friends


Who never made it to the end


To go and sit beside the ever-flowing

Holy River


And then

Watch through a silver

Scrying Mirror


As the real world

Slowly disappears


To walk through luscious

Green grass to the

Eternal City


To embrace a new realm

Free from fears

Or pity


This I beseech the Silent Dark


Before once again I am lost

For a few hours


As I reluctantly board

Morpheus's Dark Ark

Of Dreams


Filled with other

Summoners of אשלם


To then step silently into

Newly conjured

Worlds


Unseen


To travel once again

To see her


The girl of my dreams

Who always waits

For me


With crow like hair

Ruby red lips


And to die for eyes of such intense beauty


I just utter אשלם

In her presence 


By her white gatepost 

In the Great-Inbetween


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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INPERFECTUS (L)




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(A lone voice whispers)


There's an unfinished part of me 


Hidden away deep

In my compartmental zone


That sees a broken heart

Whenever I dream


Sitting all alone

On her own


Over the blue oceans 


Now that we're are apart and each one of us 


Silently cries


Lost in a world wind of painful emotions 


As strange circumstances 


Dance in a swirling frenzy 


Mirroring The Red Death like in a crazy surreal scene 


From Shakespeare's Macbeth 


But to have known her love 


To have felt it

And dwelt somewhere deep inside her 


I feel truly blessed


So here's my only message to The Almighty 


My souls alpha and omega prayer


The next time around

Bring me closer to my true love 


Just somewhere 


So we can restart 

Hand in hand 

Together 


And no longer suffer

The internal agonies

Of twin broken hearts


So we can be bound together forever


In poetry and music 

Whatever the weather


As each other 

Is finally


In the flesh 

Found


This I call to the Lord

My Almighty 


For without her love

This hard life

Is so confusing 


At that's why I pray every night


Reminiscing about those beautiful days


When I first met her

All dressed in blue


In Caesars Palace

In 1980


When she stepped into my view 


As we queued


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Friday, July 5, 2024

A Stranger in a Strange Land

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A Stranger in a Strange Land


(A lone voice whispers)


I once walked like a yearning Robert A. Heinlein


A Stranger in a Strange Land 

Into drifting clouds of blue smoke


In The Dangerous Off-Limits Zone


In the deserted Lands of Kem


That would make any mortal die or choke


In search of deep prose

Clutching my grandfather's old pen 


Like a lone messenger from The Pulsars


Sent from so far 

To find inspiration


To write a transcript of humanities development and extraterrestrial intervention


Stories of the Hopi


That linked the Lemurians to The Dogon and The Atlanteans


And then I met you

Sigma 8


My first contact from The Secret Circle of Nine


The true queen of all things between us


A shining star

From the very stately


Proxima Centauri


A Starchild once spoken of in The Lost Chapters of Enoch


The Shadow Walker between the Lost Moons of all Solar Systems


The bright thunderbolt of unspoken Gods


Who always were


A universal force worshipped in all secret underground kingdoms


If only they knew


Then you stole the centre of my aura


My heavenly bestowed light


That wonderful night 

When you let me undress your body and soul


By taking off your sparkling diamond-encrusted tiara


So here I am again

Looking for you

My love 


In these lost Lands of Kem


Walking the lonely desert Nexus Line 


By the flowing fast twin on rivers of The Sacred Kolbrin


Waiting to see

If it's you 


I see in the distance 


While these primordial wild dogs before me


Stalking me 

In the bushes

Scavenging for food 


Pine


Praying inwardly

That the Universe once again brings me


You

Sigma 8


The Shadow Walker

From Alpha Centauri's 

Triple star system


In the southern constellation of Centaurus


As these dark clouds whisper and rumble


Fere nostro tempore volvere est


(It's nearly our time to roll in)


(C) 

Copyright John Duffy


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