. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Monday, July 29, 2024

Aria the Druidess

 (A lone voice whispers)



Write your words like mesmerising spells


Like

California yellow bells


To bewitch hungry

Eyes that see


Using your incredible 

Vocabulary 


By all means


And the four types of comprehension


Literal

Interpretive

Critical


And creative


To conjure

Themes

And memes


From the fourth dimension 


To enrich jaded eyes 

To stimulate weary senses


Send forth your unique voice

Via your prose


To grace unconsciously moving wet lips


With a sweet scent

Of your inner

Red rose 


That tempts them

To read on


In their moments of stillness

And you'll realize your love of poetry


May be the missing link 

That completes them


Like the three wise men

Who once saw 


The shining

Star of Bethlehem 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

The Voice of Solomon

 The Voice of Solomon 



(A lone voice whispers)


Did you know

Something's last through all weathers


In a place

Hidden beyond a star-bridge


Crossed only by souls who choose to step into a mythical endless river called 


The Great Confluent


To merge forever

Spinning between worlds


When their Great Wheel

No longer turns 


For all things are formed

Linked by a golden cosmic thread 


Stemming from Annwn 

The First World


To here

Abred 

Your World


Then to Gwynvid 

The Higher World


And then finally swallowed into Ceugant 


The Black Hole 

The Forever Land of Dreams


For Ceugant

The Forever Land of Dreams


Like a black hole

Must absorb the ebb and flow


Of all names

And creatures 


Filled up with hopes and desire


Lit up by millions of flames By midnight or midday lanterns 


As they steer their own wheel

Through the dark blue waters


Of all things that must feel


From Annwn 

The First World


The land of spirits and long night


Where they choose 

Who or what they'll love to be


The journey 

A roadmap of growth


Of darkness and light


Through love 

Pain and with a flame lit up by a fire


Summoned

And sealed by a Hippocratic oath


To here

Abred


Your

Now


Reborn on Earth

To try to find beauty

In all they see


Before they expire

And are freed from all forms of


Semantic Encoding


Pure as snow

They're born


Trying to walk clean through the dirt and hurt 


Of what they asked for in


Annwn 

The First World


Then to Gwynvid 

The Higher World


To be judged 

In Argentum

The Silver Mirror


On how they steered

Their Great Wheel in Abred


Your now


By The Great Mother in Ceugant


The goddess and link 

Of all souls in her primordial sink


The Great In-Between 

Where all life returns


To kneel and be judged 

In Argentum


The Silver Mirror


When their name

Lit up

By a single flame


Summoned and sealed by a whispered 

Hippocratic oath


No longer burns 


And their time steering their Great Wheel 


On Abred

No longer turns


How do you think you'll fare when looking into 


Argentum

The Silver Mirror


Before the Great Mother in Ceugant


Will you pray to return to Annwn


To plan a new roadmap

And be one of Abred's

Many students


Or will you accept your fate and step in the mythical river called 


The Great Confluent


And merge into something

That lasts through all weathers


Spinning forever like a comic weathervane


In a place

Hidden beyond a star-bridge


Where there is no more pain?


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Confluent:

Flowing or coming together.

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Have you felt this?


 

Conversations with the Shadow People


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Conception


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Conception


I still dream of the beautiful woman 

Who first introduced me to sin


Still feel her soft red fingernails

On my hard skin


Still taste her red lipstick 

As I became a king


And walked like Adam

Naked


In my own Garden of Eden

As I remember the noises


Of the early morning Blackbirds


Who loved to sing

When I became of age


And walked reborn

Into a man's skin


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Will you join my Children of The Lang Nag?


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Will you join my Children of The Lang Nag?


(A lone voice whispers)


Will you follow me blindly 

Into the very dark

Labyrinths of The Eternal Mind


To sneak past the Monarch of Future Past


Mankind 

And all things that last


My lonesome child

My divine one


Will you call to me

And whisper

If you're lonely 


Seeking fun


For you've always 

Known me


Veni ad me

(Come to me)


Veni ad me

(Come to me)


 Accipe me

(Take me)


And on that day 

In every way 


I'll be the first and last thing you'll see


As you walk

Neck deep 


Into my ancient

radiant still deep waters


While Mother Moon smiles as you are consumed


To join my Children of The Lang Nag


(Long Night)


In one of my many side rooms


To dance round my pagan campfires 


As my rhythmic music and a symphony of voices surrounds and regale you


With wild stories 

Of The Mawk’akuna


(The Old Ones)


For time will die and expire like a hunter's doe

In my endless forest 


As your soul 

So hungry 

I'll nourish 


So will you summon me and whisper


Veni ad me

Veni ad me


Accipe me


And enter my Midsummer's Night's Dream


Where everything dances to a new tune


My tune 


In my mythical realms

Of The Great In-Between


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Dance of The Lampyridae

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 The Dance of The Lampyridae

We once danced like the glowing Lampyridae


Bathing in the molten heat of a new fire


While walking hand in hand 

Down loves panoramic highways


Flames of belonging and such sensuous fire 


Lit and consumed our aura's


But when the winter of our love season arrived 


With the familiar sound of jingle bells


Announcing our Oak wedding anniversary 


On that particular sunrise 

On December the fifth


That mesmerising spell broke like the mythical Sword of Elendil


And my world 

Shattered


So blue is my new season watching the midnight Lampyridae dance 


In the silvery moonlight


Like a young Gene Kelly and Rita Hayworth

As we once did


While my life slowly drifts

South


After I lost you


My world and the only thing that once mattered


Wandering lost in my mind's so many labyrinths filled with our hieroglyphs


As I stand alone on 

Death's high cliff


When I remember that first beautiful night  


We met


When our souls were ordained in God's light


 (C)

Copyright John Duffy


(Lampyridae: Firefly)

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