. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Are you a book lover?

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Librorum Amans (L)


(An inquisitive voice whispers)


Do you too like reading to escape for a few hours


Through poetry's heavily laden chest


Containing shiny jewels of such priceless wonders and visual experiences


Waiting for eager minds to run through like the Greek goddess of running


 Atalanta


Tempting inquisitive eyes to wait in line 


To be hypnotised forever 

by enchanted words


Cast within imaginations thunder


To then hold minds

In primordial bondage 


Caught and captured in gilded written cages 


In lucid imagery flowing through the pages


To then be captivated for a few hours by written spells to beguile 


Through ethereal carefully crafted citadels 


Surrounded with such hypnotic wonders


Could that be why you love poetry


And books like a heavily laden chest


Filled with mesmerising dreamscapes 


To always fill you with joy and wonder 


So my question for you

Readers of old and readers of new


Who’s your favourite author or poet


Who always takes you under


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Librorum Amans:

Book lover 

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Do we as writers create emotional bridges

 

As writers, are we all but seducers of the minds of others


We silently kiss in friendship 


As they read one of our poetic gifts?



(À lone voice whispers)



Do we as writers create emotional bridges


That needs to be crossed

Like visionaries like Robert Frost


For the readers to follow our trail of black fonts into the darkness 


We sometimes visit, when developing new projects


About inspirational strengths or themes of spiritual weakness


Some may feel compelled to call us charlatans


New reborn Kings and Queens of somewhere totally cosmopolitan


Seducers of fragile minds

And hold us upright 


As just sinners and bringers of emotional tragedies


Using poetry as liquid oxygen 


But at the core


Our message can also simply be this


Do more


Live for any form of happiness and find and treasure a loving muse


Paint touching visceral pictures through stories


Using music or poetry as your lyre

And put them to good use


Never lament old age as it tries to freeze your youthful body


Once so beautiful and lithe


So in ending


In long days

When your weary heart seems heavy, and you lose hope and feel all emotions


Linked to love or compassion has suddenly died


Look towards tomorrow's new eyes and be lifted up in Dawn’s rose-flushed arms 


And find a way to 

Others and yourself to

Forgive 


Even if you've cried


Then stand back and look into life’s deep mirrors and always remember


You have so much more 

To still give


And embrace this thought denied to so many


Some slowly 

Some suddenly 


As you read this


You still have one of life's greatest gifts


Be proud 

Because so much good can still happen


Because you still live


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Monday, February 17, 2025

Esuries (L)

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(A lone voice whispers)

Has love's incandescent crimson light bulb

Illuminated your lonely soul yet

To help you forget 
Those quiet years

When you walked upon fragile parapets alone 

You'd rather now paint
Using poetry as your only form of catharsis

Before you are called home

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

Esuries translated:
Hunger

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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Channelling a King

 


(A regal voice whispers)


Oh, Here,

She Comes


Oh, Here,

She Comes


Oh, Blessed Be

Oh Blessed be


Tonight the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood


Appears on her white charger

To enchant and tempt all


Who wish to follow her

To her Faeryland


Ashera


The Goddess

At this dire hour


Comes forth


And rides in front

For all the anointed

To see Her


Gowned from head to toe


In a golden and green

Priceless steel armour


A true beauty of so

much Love and Light


With such beautiful brown opal eyes


Which glow

Like hidden fires


Once lit

In secret woodland groves


Who no one

Only the good

Dare to follow


For they know

Instinctively


The secret way

To the

Magical Doorway


In the Sacred Oak


So if you see or feel a gust of musty wind

Or smell a divine scent


That all your five senses are invoked


And conquered with such an exotic abundance

Of wild divine energy

For that's her biomarker


When she chooses to appear to the young

The old and elderly


Who may be in jeopardy

For she's Heaven sent


And hear the sound of her approaching steed's


Golden bells

That ring


Which hang on the necks on their black leather harnesses


So they can joyously

In unison

Rhythmically sing


It might be best to lay in the wide shades

Of your woodland hides


If you're tainted with sin


Way

Way

In the deep green green grass

And you she will pass


Or you could follow

Like a true believer of Apollo


As she rides

While above you


Skies above your New Age

Gradually gets darker


With the cries for war

Created worldwide famine


And soon-to-be global financial horror and ruin


Back to her Blessed Hollow

Beyond the Magical Doorway


To the Hidden Realm

Where I too reside


In Sweet Lands

Of The Great Sacred Oak


For her and her many

Fairy Folk


Tonight

They raid


For here will soon come

The Wild Riders

From across The Shee


Smiling gleefully

Totally unafraid


So tonight

This incantation


Whisper by I


Once known as

King Arthur


The first Knight

Of the Secret Guild


Of The Half-Light


Commands you all

To light


All the yellow hay-like beacons

Within your inquisitive minds


To create your own versions

Of my once treasured

Bridles Way


In England


To guide the Named Few

Maybe even you


To cross the Fairy folk's Fells

So in this year

Reeking of fear


The wildfires of Fertility and Motherhood


Can continue to burn within you

Without shedding a tear


So the seductive Myloto Dance


Can once more truly

Come alive


So many can dance

Play

Lay


Pray or sing


With the new freedom, they've never felt before

The Dawn cockerel screams


To break her hypnotic enchanting spell


As the rising morning

Sun


Once more

Announces


It's

Closing that magical paranormal portal


Back to her Sacred Hollow


For the brave few

That queued in procession


The whole night through


When they found the courage and followed


So her golden precious bells


To them

Could sing

Forever


A proclamation to defeat all known deep depressions


For they like me

And many others


Will soon be annotated


To be reborn

Immortal


To live in happiness


With our beloved Asher**

A beautiful goddess of Heaven


Just not known

 to many


Still living mortals


Still living mortals


Who'll never find the way

Or the Keys of Courage


To crossover


By using her secret magical

Paranormal

Portal


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Jericho's Prayer Letter Fire Ceremony Offering

 


There is a call deep on high


It whispers in the darkness and constantly cries


It speaks of divided parts entangled but still standing whole


An unconquerable timeless love forever aflame between two now lonely souls


I was once yours it whispered and you were always mine


Simultaneously, we might be separated by the great veil, but we’ll still stand together as one 


Watching the crestfallen stars until the fall of time


For together we are indivisible by death and all that remains


For we two carry our golden chains even though its burdens may cause temporary pain


We are but just lonesome wanderers awaiting reunion


But one day we shall again be as one 


You’ll just have to be patient and wait until my time is run


Such longing flows through my veins


The one I still miss who could no longer remain


It’s but a holy need I really could not casually dismiss as your soft caresses I still really just miss


I can only but look forward to a new tomorrow when we shall once again meet in a new Summerland 


Devoid of pain, cancer, or sorrow


To be reunited in halls of immeasurable secrets


Where we shall no longer grow old and all our love shall be reborn and surrounded by lights of shimmering silver and gold


I visited a medium in the fall of the last Full moon


And Shirley said 


My other half still waits in the dark


She stands lonely too with a broken heart that still pines


So Julia

This is my message for you


One day, beyond the mists of time in a new place filled with tranquilly for all to behold.


All our stories and adventures shall be retold


For ours is a love which shall still grow as we are inescapable souls


Irredeemable, we may still be 


Full of mortal faults and mistakes, but blessed be by the lights of Goddess Albina


Beyond the Great Wormwood Star


Unconquerable two souls

Will once again 

Walk as one


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Apollyon Relationships

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(A lone voice whispers)


Have you ever had a disastrous relationship before, or looked at a friend, and wondered…


Were the dark forces at play at any given emotional, traumatic moment?

Title: 

Apollyon Relationships


(A lone voice ponders after a first date)


Are you my 

Morning Star


My fallen introduction

To spiritual and physical sin


A dark place 

Where I might never win


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


Reference in this case.

Apollyon. / () / noun. 


New Testament the destroyer, a name given to the Devil (Revelation 9:11)

Saturday, February 15, 2025

The Beguiled


 (A lone voice whispers at 3 am)


There was always something so controversial and medieval 


About exploring semi-clothed in the dark shadows


All the deeply hidden essences of you


But I guess it's just one of the many unspoken reasons 


Why I stepped into your view


Just unconsciously attracted when you appeared 


Right out of the blue



(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Manifestation Dreams

 


Manifestation Dreams

Are we just in a gulag
Of our own making?

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

Foundation.

Do we make our own prisons of the mind, we silently wallow in every day?

Gulag

Slang for any prison or detention camp.

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Canto Dreams


(A weary voice whispers)


Like a slave to love

I once looked for true completeness 


But like Beatrice and Dante, 

There was always a great barrier 


Between us


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Foundation.


Does society, peer pressure, family or religion, hinder many when searching for love?
 

Friday, February 14, 2025

Soulmates

 


Sometimes in life


If you're really lucky, 

You meet people you truly love 


Without all the complications of physical or spiritual crucifixions


Special ones

You can never grow tired of


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

 

Romantic Art Oil Painting on Canvas by Portland Artist BenWill

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