Monday, August 12, 2024
The Msula
A poetic monologue for the inquisitive.
Title:
The Msula
(A lone voice whispers)
Have you worn one of those old red coats yet
The one given by one of the invisible Riders in the silent night
The Msula
Who knows when your libido's getting wet
For the first time
A coat filled with holes and tears
From someone else
Who no longer needs one to wear
A symbol of hopes and dreams
Sometimes in vain
For wearing it spiritually doesn't mean love will remain
And it may even bring you pain
But have you worn one like I once did
When I was a kid
When I felt my heartbeats rise like the early morning sunrise
The weight and happiness tied together within a red ribbon of bliss
In that first kiss
Then the solitude
Way after
But I still wore it proudly looking for its twin
Another red coat wearer
With tears and holes
Frayed seams
But still keen
It's how I found my Mary before her coat was taken back
By one of the Riders in the silent night
The Msula
When she died
To be given to another new land walker
To feel the anxiety, concern, difficulty, duty, hardship, load, onus, responsibility, strain, task, tax, trouble, worry.
And dissatisfaction that comes from wearing it
But also how all those burdens are extinguished in the bliss of that first kiss
Oh, how I miss her
Now I'm 89
But a Night Rider appeared to me late last night
Said
Write your last thoughts down Henry
Your time with the red coat is nearly over
I'll be coming for it tomorrow before you crossover
So tear a hole in the fabric
And pull at the seams
When you can see it before you go to Mary
In The Great In-Between
You see the holes and tears add to the magical essences
Of wearing one of our holy gifts
For it helps keep the hope for love present
When all seems lost
And helps to find the twin coat of the new wearer
Just like you and how you found your Mary
Guided by one of us
The Old Fairies
So before I go
Wear yours proudly
Be kinder and
Vibrate higher
And if you already haven't found your twin red coat wearer
Just know
The Riders in the silent night
The Msula
Will soon find its twin and introduce your heart to heavenly choruses of hallelujah's
In the form of a new love
So good night and good luck
For I can just see my beloved Mary in the distance calling
Standing beside one of the Night Riders
The forever smiling
Msula
As the moon and stars above seem to start falling
(C) Copyright John Duffy
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Sunday, August 11, 2024
Rebirth
The human experience has always intrigued, and formed the foundation stone of these monologues. In poetic form.
I create.
This is but another.
Salute.
Have you walked through hell to find your own piece of heaven?
Title:
Rebirth
(A lone voice whispers)
Consumed by times long reach
My old love now walks on a new beach
No more Greenwich Village walks
Trips downtown to Manhattan
No more listening to Van Morrison on a hot Sunday afternoon
Drinking cold lemonade
In the shade
As passing yellow butterflies played
Smiling in unison
Watching the local ice cream van sound its arrival
With that particular catchy tune
Or reading Dostoevsky
Page by page
Aloud or creating poetry
Together
I guess
Looking back with my rose-tinted glasses taken off
It was like a prophecy in the Book of Revelations
To find heaven,
You must first face hell
Walk through the oncoming Apocalypse
Breathe in the final moments of despair
See your once bright sunflower wither and float away
To some sacrificial altar where they all go
Drawn by a dark power
Down some old black as death itself river
For like the Lotus flower
We sometimes need to grow in the sludge
To bloom
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Existentialism in the 21 Century
I don't usually add people on social media randomly
For in time
I know
I
Me or you
Would truly miss
So enjoy this
Our own connective gif
(C) Copyright John Duffy
The Vine
The first day love climbed
Like an invisible green vine
Into me
From Aphrodite's crimson tree
My life changed
Haunted forever by
My old history
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Image shared under fair usage policy
Foundation of the piece.
Can you remember when you first fell in love, and did that moment signify a significant change in your emotional mindset?
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Siren Dreams
Have you revisited old memories in the way hours of night
When ghosts of old love call to play
And you reminisce about all the sweet things they once said
First love
Now love
Old love
Do still they wake you in deep dreams of an old life
Once led
Summoning your attention with spiritual subpoenas
With memories of a time
When you rode your chariot proudly with them
Like a hyper Judah Ben-Hur
Into all arenas
Before that old love
Shattered into a million pieces
Like glass
And which now call like midnight sirens
In your own Odyssey
From the past
From a once holy dream
You thought
Forever
Would last
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Image shared under fair usage policy
Foundation of the piece
From family, young love to friends.
Do we miss them all even more when that time together has passed?
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
The Escapee
The Visitor from Hiranyaloka
(A lone voice whispers)
Within the Witching Hour
Of twelve to four am
In the Great In-Between
I've seen
Universes
Parallel worlds
Places
Where no living human beings have never been
Climbed through blue portals
To strange lands where angels and demons
In choirs
Sing
Walked lands
Where no water runs in rivers or springs
Walked the badlands of the forsaken
Climbed the high towers of the iron maiden
Saw tomorrow's prophecies
Before I awakened
But I was never alone
Faith in the Lord
Kept me safe
In The Badlands
Beyond the Tomb
From being drawn at dusk
To been released at dawn
To explore
To revel in new sights
Past midnight
Is a mystery which binds me still
From Arigartha
To Mulvanto
The red cliffs of the Ugato mountains
From the twin suns of Sirius
Bathed in autumn gold
Underneath lightning filled skies
So now
I know an old secret
One for you to read as you pass me by
The dead don't die
They just live
Underneath
Purple clouds
In another shimmering neverending sky
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Hiranyaloka:
Illumined Astral Planet.
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