. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Monday, August 12, 2024

The Call of The Demerge

 


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 



Paradisus (L)



Consciousness and unconsciousness


Rests in peace


Tranquility flows internally


© 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 


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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 

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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



(A lone voice whispers)


As an escapee
From the where one doesn't want to be

This message I've left here
From me 

To warn of She

For
In long shadows of the mind 
It comes

Creeping slowly in
Like the moor fog 

In a long sinful cloak of army grey

Lost Love
Smiling like a pretty Medusa
Knocking on your door softly

With wild black eyes
Black hair and cherry red lips

Looking for souls who into the long night pine
Like lone timber wolves

Focusing on their auras frequency's 
To tune in

To take them back to its green lair 
In the raging Lemurian Sea

To the Black Rock Tower where Prometheus lays helpless 

Upon its jagged diamond encrusted cliffs

Bound by Old Gods
By the power of the Aufbau Der 

The world builders of the High Mountains

To baptise them under the Emerald Fountain 

To then be robed in blue with fairy folk watching wearing silvery jewellery

Cast by the Forge Masters of Sigma Twenty1

To then to join the huge Coronation Line

To be new flowers in the Black Rock Fields

The search for love over as they are pulled over

Never to dream but to sway like Douglas Fir's

As the hypnotic incense infusion
Of frankincense and myrrh

Clouds their hopes and dreams with delusion 

So beware of
The Banshee of The Night

The Wife of He
You cannot see

The Lord of Black Rock Tower where Prometheus lays helpless upon 

Jagged diamond encrusted cliffs

Keep looking for the light of your life 

But pine no more
Or the image of the great seducer

Medusa

Could appear in spiritual form
Knocking on your astral doors

To then

No more to talk
No more to walk
No more to see 

But to spend all your days swaying in a hypnotic trance
In the nearest asylum 

As time
Advances

Somewhere hidden
In the raging Lemurian sea
Of The Great In-Between 

(C)
Copyright John Duffy  



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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.