The Eulogy Letter

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What would your eulogy letter say?

Although I leave

Behind

So many to grieve

Please don't cry

For I have loved my beautiful life

And have no fear to die

For through faith

I know 

Angels with bright wings

With turtle-doves

That sing

Will find me

To guide me

Beyond the clouds of this world's largest sky

Way past Saturn Rings

For my heart is clear

And filled with all the wonderful things 

I hold dear

Like you all

My family and friends 

So hold on to your sad tears

This is not the end

For I have danced hand in hand with love 

In the early morning rain

And sunshine 

 

Savored its sweet taste and pain 

In my beating chest as my heart pined

Kissed and fought 

For peace

For the oppressed 

With all the many buttons 

I could find 

To press

So of me do not cry

For fear of death 

No fear 

Have I

For my God 

Now waits for me

Smiling 

Beaming 

In the shadows

By the silver gates

In the eternal green redeeming meadows

So take this

As my final kiss 

Goodbye

My eulogy letter 

For remember 

When you hear this

Trust me

Good friends and true love

Never die

And knowing

Loving and seeing

You all 

Has been my utmost pleasure 

And I can only hope and pray  

You'll keep doing your best in some way 

Therefore, in closing

Good night and

God bless 

Remember me

Just another loved one

Walking to find their salvation 

In the Holy Sea

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

The Calling

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(A lone voice whispers)

Run to me

My only love

Through all of your life's wild woods

To reach my secret mountain glade

To where I'm stood

Waiting

Like a lone ash tree

Come to your destiny 

As I stand chanting 

In my circle of salt

Sending out spells in poetry

To enchant and call to you

Each night

Even when you prayed

A part of me still waits in those dark woods 

In the deep unconscious recesses of your mind

Just hidden in the green ivy and shade

Where your deepest desires are confined and waylaid 

Will you surrender and just come to me

For I will build inside you a new spiritual temple

With tender soft hands

A red beating altar

As its centrepiece

Filled with love's marching band's 

To absolve all your fears

So search for me

In those unconscious recesses of your mind

Just hidden in the green ivy and shade

Where your deepest desires are confined and waylaid 

To come to a new church 

To be baptised and ordained

Walk through all that ceremonial smoke that chokes

Past the enticing pit fires

Surrounded and lit by temptations

Many crowds of enticing chanting liars

When you hear 

Me calling

"De prisa, queda poco tiempo"

(Hurry, there is little time left)

"De prisa, queda poco tiempo"

To finally cross the wet sands and swim through the dark waters

To defeat 

Death

To reach my mountain woodland glade

Inside

Where we can finally dance freely in glee 

Amongst the deadly nightshade

And face the rise of the Full Winter Moon

Totally unafraid

Like Adam and Eve

As the rest of the world

Is falling

Manipulated by those indentured politicians and news presenters 

Who like to gaslight and deceive

Wearing expensive suites and dolman white sleeves

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Remember Me

 Remember me

My Elysee

In the low hours

When you are weak 

And have lowered

Your powerful barriers

For it's then I can only be seen

Remember me

As that tsunami of furious fire

That once reenergized you

In those dark years

When you were alone and tired

To be wholly free

Remember me

By looking at my picture

Your now favourite 

Black and white one I sent you

As my holy scripture

That you'll only need

Remember me when you are old 

Standing brightly as the early morning sun 

In the darkness of old age

Even though your beloved memories are getting cold

Before God turns your page

So you can fade away

To join me 

As the hours and seconds

Run away 

Remember me

So I may stay

In some strange spiritual way

To give you comfort

Until you too are recalled

To float away

Someday

Remember me

My poetic love 

So I can come to you

In dreams

Walking down to find you

Through the ethereal blue rivers and green

Underground streams 

To reach you to swim

Together 

Reunited

 

In the Holy Sea

Until the early morning sunrise

Remember me

As your true spiritual devotion

Who you never met in physical flesh

But one

Who wrote down 

In his pre-life road map

With his spirit guide

In another

Far away nation

"I want to meet someone so extraordinary 

Someone worldwide

Who will show me such poetic wonders" 

"That my heart will open up its velvety doors and ask to be possessed as it pleads to confess

Before I once more walk 

In these heavenly tides

Of the Holy Sea"

And then I suddenly met you

Mesmerised 

By all

I could see

So that's why I pray

For you 

Each night

So you'll remember me

As I wait here

Walking barefoot and alone

In the swirling tides

Of The Holy Sea

Waiting 

for the one

I once wrote down before I was born

Now known

As Elysee

The only one I'll ever need

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Peace

(A lone voice whispers)

In the lower levels of spiritual existence 

We once roamed

Alone and lonely

Forlornly

Looking for true love

And all its mysterious emotional energy

Hidden away 

In our empty homes

And like a red rose 

Blooming in a garden of thorns

I found you

Like a rare diamond amongst the coal

Blowing your triumphant golden horn

We danced

Sang and laughed together

And our happiness seemed forever

But Fate

That unseen handler of so many

From The Great In-Between

Intervened

Then you were once more lost 

The ever-expanding sea

 From dark shores

Had reached us and you were beached

Somewhere 

Between

Where and there

Between us

But

Regret is a grey smoke 

I will never breathe

Pain 

A tablet of separation

I will never take

For our life

Together although short

Will vibrate

Throughout my eternity 

Forever

For memories make a person once broken 

Smile filled with happy thoughts

Though unspoken

For pain and regret are always blowing like hungry

Vampiric seeds in the loose winds

Hoping to take root and grow in the garden of sad hearts

Which invite them in

Sadness found in regret and pain 

Should be cleansed by remembering

All those happier times 

For that's how I remain

Profound

For even though now

My old love and me

Don't share the same

Common ground

Like

Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson

In that famous Titanic ending scene

We'll dance forever 

Together

 

In my dreams

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Autumnal Whispers

 Autumnal Whispers 

Autumnal darkness comes like a favourite old friend 

In this

The longest of nights

In September 

Creeping in like a Mesopotamia creeping mist 

Like one remembered 

While the rest of the world is sleeping 

Depriving me of sleep

Underneath its meager grey skies

As weather chimes

Overcast

Cry

Sing and whistle

In rhyme 

O Lord,

Hear my cry

On your

Most High

Open up my soul contract

And declare by your decree

My freedom is still intact

My freedom to find my Lucinda

The girl who once gave me her number 

A while back

Only to lose me and our whispered pact

By the strike of your thunder

Hear me

O Mighty Lord

In this Autumnal hour

Cut the cord 

Cut the cord

So I can leave this memory place 

Of smoke and ash

So I can just run

To find her with all my remaining power

But in these low whispers 

In the deep depths

I feel the vibrational presence of viewers

So here's to you

You 

The bohemians 

Eccentrics originals and mavericks

The kingdom builders of visual worlds that shine through 

Using the power and brilliance of inspired words and fluted thoughts

I pray with you to stay

Like my beloved Lucinda 

In memories

You 

The Ones

That has the brilliance of words and fluted thoughts 

Only you

I can praise

You

The searchers

Creator's

Poetic

Time abusers

Be free and never 

Bought

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

The Wastelands of Shibboleth.

 Foundation of the piece:

Do those we lose, watch and wait?

What do you think?

Title:

The Wastelands of Shibboleth. 

(A lone voice whispers)

These nights are so long 

Now that I've crossed this dark sea with the child of Erebus

Singing

The Coming Home

Song

To a land undreamed of

But I sometimes 

Wonder 

Do you still miss me

My only love

Now that we're both free

For I'll still love you 

As long as The Hurrian Hymn is played 

Even as long 

As heartfelt prayers are made

To the peaks of the highest snow-covered mountains 

And into the deep depths

Of Agartha 

Hidden Fountains

My soul may be unreachable

And out of sight

Every night

Brought about by our Lord and Grace

By always remember 

I'm here

Just waiting in a pristine white room

In a unique place

Where 

Through my obsidian scrying glass

I can still see 

Your beautiful face

By sun and moon

Rain or shine

Fire or candlelight

To love you

Is all I now have 

To carry me through these endless nights

In these Barren Lands

To remind me

You were once mine

An even though

I've taken my last breath

When Deaths Messenger

Charon called

I'll still love you through all the tragedies

As 

Thane of Glamis

Loved his Lady Macbeth 

For sometimes faith in love 

Is all you can use

When you have nothing left 

To lose

So when God

Bade me take my last breath

With a wave of his hand

Like Nero of Rome

So I could hear the child of Erebus

Singing

The Coming Home

Song

I made his messenger

Titan promise

I shall see you better

Even after death

When you join me here

In Shibboleth

The Wastelands 

Filled with those

No longer wearing flesh 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Argento

 

(A lone voice whispers)

In this new spiritual war, 

I've searched

So many once long forgotten rooms 

Hidden in this cathedral of my mind

My old worldly kingdom

Looked in faded memory tombs

For freedom

Visited death and birth

Laughter and mirth

Mementos of life on Earth 

Endless light

And dark cloaks

Worn by

Recollections

Of folks

Invoked

Now 

I'm here 

 

Standing like a lighthouse 

Before all the oncoming

All consuming darkness 

By this 

Always burning 

Old Oak tree

The only truths

I now know

Sharpened by the Blacksmiths 

Of Time's

Anvils

As it flows

Like poetry by

Oscar Wilde

And it's why 

My soul

Now bleeds

In rhymes and cries 

Looking down to the walking flesh coffins

Beyond 

Filled to the brim

With greed and sin

Just awaiting a home

When gravediggers

Are summoned 

By lone priests

To dig

I've watched love turn to hate and burnt to ash 

As foolish lovers

Took the Devil's cold cash

Looked upon empty bedrooms 

As angels were cast out by new practices

From loving homes

Seen red roses

Crushed in concrete

To never regrow 

As their leaves 

Withered in sorry defeat

In the ethereal snow

Saw Straw Men

In red clouds 

Ride in

Smiling

To rain down on those 

Praying to sin

But through it all

No matter how many

Pieces have to fall

The only truth that matters

Is to have faith

In whatever religion 

You believe in

To break the bullpen 

 

So You'll know when to protect yourself 

To never choke again

For one day 

We

The true believers

Will stand 

Shoulder to shoulder

Arm in arm

And sing this

Our battle song 

O LORD

O LORD

Keep us

Safe

O LORD

Safe

O LORD

From the wicked 

Places

O LORD

Protect us from storms of violence 

O LORD

By planners

Hiding 

In the silence

O LORD

O LORD

Come our Way

For

You are the Way

The way to

The Ford

So 

Hear us

O LORD

So

Hear us

O LORD

Glory Glory

Hallelujah

O LORD

Glory Glory

Hallelujah 

 

Do you believe 

You'll stand and sing

Arm in arm

When the Great Tribulation 

Comes and

Begins

I hope so

For when the trials of sin come

I'll look for you 

To take 

Your arm

To sing our marching song as the great purge begins

To the sound of beating drums

O LORD

O LORD

Keep us

Safe

O LORD

Safe

O LORD

From the wicked 

Places

O LORD

Protect us from storms of violence 

O LORD

By planners

Hiding 

In the silence

O LORD

O LORD

Come our Way

For

You are the Way

The way to

The Ford

So 

Hear us

O LORD

So

Hear us

O LORD

Glory Glory

Hallelujah

O LORD

Glory Glory

Hallelujah 

 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

 

Señora Desamor: Lady Heartbreak

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(A lone voice whispers)

I can always remember the first time I met her

Dancing wearing blue roller skates to Disco Inferno

In Studio 54

In 77'

All dressed in white satin 

I should have known 

Deep down what would happen

She'd put me under her emotional spell

Like an angel sent from Heaven 

Then invite me later

Like a concierge

Into here

Heartbreak Hotel 

Where the broken go to rebel and scream

In their cells

As She watches and

Absorbs the sights and smells 

While lost souls like us

Kneel plead and yell

Burn baby

Burn

So it must be true what some say

That if you're eager to learn about or taste a touch of hell

Take a sip of love's crimson waters 

From her deep well

To fall under her spell

(C)

Copyright John D 

Señora Desamor: Lady Heartbreak

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Propaganda

 

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Foundation of the piece:

Do you trust everything media companies broadcast?

(A lone voice whispers)

Let that balloon of propaganda and conditioned hate go

So it can disappear and fade like winter snow

Like when Spring comes

Marching in 

With her army of green 

Called Rebirth

To fire life-giving bullets from their green guns 

Into the Earth

As She watches and speaks in tongues 

To embrace the sounds of your own souls redemption drums

When that time 

Finally comes

For even the blind get led by the blind

Cleverly played by those 

Who cast mind spells to bind

So let that balloon float away

Filled with verses that once swayed

Starting today

Therefore, in closing 

Listen carefully what newscasters say

For all words are spells

Particularly poetry

Don't get given a dark balloon of hate by Spellcasters

With minds

Bought with silver pieces of eight

To cast mind spells to bind 

To subjugate

Who are always lying in wait

Smiling sitting in this interconnected world 

Just bought and paid for 

To manipulate 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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The Monologue of the Vampire who changed his name to Dorian Gray

 

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(A lone voice whispers)

I've seen crazy things

Mortal man should never see

Done and experienced acts of such depravity in candle lit 

Incense filled bedrooms

And chambers

Secrets

I'll take when I'm called to the tomb

Sailed in slow-moving ships and endless 

Wet hips around the world

Not just in this

My present life

But many more

Past lives

Entered dark places of depravity

Straight ones wouldn't enter or drink in 

Fearing the call of serving the Countess of all Sin

For eternity 

But now I feel Death wanting to take this life alongside all I love

For I feel him looking in my secret scrying mirror 

Smiling like Michael Angelo with his bony hands by his side

Tapping in rhythm 

The Marching Days Are Over

But with my silent heart now asking 

Was it worth it

All that excessiveness and scandal 

As we sit on this last mountain of Goodbyes

Not feeling the warmth of this purple-repentance candle

On my cold and calculating mind

Her bright light

The one from so long ago

Strikes my amygdala

Like an arrow fired by Sitting Bull

From an acute angle

Deep into my skull 

And as her sweet memories fill my immortal cup

From my first love

I know why I won't accept Deaths offer and be culled

For to drink all that this life and future lives offers

I'll take everything in her memory and will never stop

As I wade knee-deep

Through its fast flowing waters

Looking for more lambs

Ready to slaughter 

(C)

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