Saturday, July 13, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Are you a slave to the invisible system?
Press play.
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
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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)
(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
Title:
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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Thursday, July 4, 2024
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