. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Grief



I still visit you

Somewhere deep inside 

You know


For our old memories together 


Carry me still

Everywhere I go


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Foundation.


In brief moments of reflection, do you still remember those you still love through introspection?

Need some inspiration?


 Beyond these dark days of ever-growing political dystopia


Social and claustrophobic phobia's 


Find something or someone to love and try to absorb that feeling like 

illicit opium 


Why


It could be the way to survive this life cycle's current pandemonium


(C) Copyright John Duffy 

Saturday, March 8, 2025

The Soldiers' Wedding Vow

 



We mark this as our hallowed oath

A mark, O Lord, for us both

To forever carry


For together

We stand


Eye to eye

Heart and hand


Now we're married 


And by this mark, we swear by peace and love to forever trust each other 


And always try to understand 


For this, the seal upon our hearts is real


As it carries deep inside

All we feel

Amen


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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Bewitched


Daylight may softly whisper it's but an hour away


But such is the spiritual power of your divine company, 

I will stay


Transformed emotionally beyond all known boundaries of esoteric norm 


By your captivating form


While your carefully chosen words like spoken spells


Holds me and unfolds me


And it's where I want to forever stay


An hour away from sunrise, 

Laid together 

Entwined 


Listening to the early morning birds play 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


Foundation.


Have you ever experienced that magical moment, when you want the night to never end?


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Friday, March 7, 2025

The Invocation of Eros

 



(A lone voice whispers)


May this prayer help you be mine


My sweet and dear Clémentine


To summon Eros 

From the Deep Divine


So two hearts can forever be entwined

  

And through destiny  


Be bound in love's surreal ecstatic chains


No longer restrained

Like an unspoken quatrain


A stanza of four lines

Which forever pines


But to ignite the spark 

Of a new light 


A reborn sonnet to dispel the darkness 


Hidden out of sight

From my heart 


So Mother Moon


Turn your wheel to send a beam 

From The Great In-Between 


To empower me in this

My heart's only quest tonight 


To imprint how I feel

While I kneel


As I call her to me,

So mote it be  


What will be 

Will be


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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Lucid Dreaming

 


Your treasured memory flashes like a falling star from my mind's eternal sky 


It creates cosmic time loops where spirits from the tomb gather 


While old conversations, like white snow, falls 


As time no longer flies

With such glitz and glamour 


And whenever I see your face amongst others again in that time loop 


As in, you swagger


I always remember why I still love you 


For like the mystical everlasting sea


The wild magic of you and me

Together 


Will forever flow and run free


Like a lone siren's love song once whispered 


To try to hypnotize 

Ulysses 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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Foundation of the piece.


Those we love live forever, whenever we remember.

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life!


 

A supernatural piece.


Only read if you want more love and understanding in your life!


(A lone voice whispers after lighting a candle. The invocation ends with the blowing out of the candle, after the last line is recited)


The Prayer to The Elementals.
Candēla Meditation.


(A lone voice whispers)


Power of Air
Power of Land


Hear my souls
Holy writs


I pray for love and understanding
So come my way


Power of Night
Power of Day


Hear what I say


I summon thee to protect me

So be it


(C)
Copyright John Duffy


P.S

You do realise by reading it silently, you've summoned more love and understanding into your life?

Energy goes where attention flows.

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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Escapism

 


Foundation.


If you could escape this world, would you take that risk?



Escapism 


As if cursed by the son of perdition


As I go about my new life's mission to gain admission to her realm


With Aphrodite's dead ringer who whispers songs of exquisite rendition


Praying a lone arrow from Eros bow will strike, drawing gasps from the angels watching


High in the midnight sky 


As I breathe in her sweet aroma and passion filled scent, like pure oxygen 


And feel regal like a king

Like King Solomon 


As her aura captures my soul like a moth is attracted to a flame


So now all dark nights appear so long and so black


As the shadow people slowly advance

Whispering my name 


For they know I have been changed by someone so radical.


As I entered the Fifth Dimension one strange night 


Looking to finding a love so sacred and magical


But that's the magic of searching for the fantastical


For as sure as winds seduce trees by subtle caresses 


As the world wakes each year in a new spring and fresh life begins


I write this before I go to the Hidden Forest


Where the White Ash stands


Where green ivy hides the entrance to her lair, and other slaves play music, while chained to metal stands


With the smell of incense on patrol in the electricity filled air


Ready to invade lungs and take control


It's ten to two in the morning and I have to appear at four


So if I don't come back, I leave this for you to know I'm fine


Keep the house 

Car and money 


For I'm going to a new place where fear no longer exists 


A place I hope welcomes me in


Just pray for me that I don't 

lose my soul and become just another flesh slave 


Chained up playing music in her band


A prisoner trapped forever in her cave


As she sits or stands

On her golden throne singing with her crimson red lips


You're now mine

Now get in line


Your time will come play


For now, you're caught 

And can no longer run away


For you're now just another one of my familiars


One in a trillion 

No longer a civilian 


All this I know for a German called Schiller


Told me over the internet

Told me to come over


Told me I'd be a member of a wolf pack serving a queen in The Great In-Between 


So here I am


Pray for me 

Ma xxx


Forever yours

Your son 

Jimmie 0


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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Monday, March 3, 2025

Have you had the Blues?

Have you had the Blues?





(A lone voice whispers)

As the silvery midnight sun rose

I drank my wet velvety smooth whiskey

Tasting exquisitely
My Life's Blues

I looked to the faraway sparkling stars

Wondering

Where do those lost really go

The mother's
Fathers
Sisters and brothers

After this mortal show

Is it to alabaster halls and reunions with old family and friends

Warm conversations
Endless soft music

Dancing around fires and priceless red wine

Or somewhere else

Cocooned between this world and the divine

Just relentlessly exchanging stories and fond memories

For there is no longer any time

Will they still remember us and send us a sign?

A soft kiss on the cheek
A red robin
A white feather

To always remind us,
They still wait love drunk

In all weathers

Longing for an embrace
Like a drop of spiritual moonshine

Will we ever see them again?

Or are they simply lost forever

No matter how hard we pray and mutter amen

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Catharsis

 


Foundation.


Does writing letters help purge negative emotional feelings after a breakup?


Title:

Catharsis 


(A man writes a letter to put with many others. He writes one each month to try to calm his mind, regarding breakup advice from a psychiatrist)


Thinking about you and the first day we wed


Spiritually 

As I sit here


Under our once favourite tree

Writing to you again through poetry


In the form of a letter I'll save with the many others

So time won't forget us 


I still find myself having a familiar feeling


Where originally 

I couldn't sleep


Kept awake each night with the lone thought which beat like a heavy drum within 


With such zeal


Does she still love me

My Lucy


For love has planted a seed


Then I always used to get a supernatural feeling like I'm being watched by someone who too


Like me has a special touch


A gift of second sight which lets them see too much


For whenever I closed my jaded blue eyes 

I used to feel you there


Waiting like a new Lola Carmichael 


Ready to judge

Behind my open eyelids


Slowly taking 

All in


I sometimes used to hear your low breathing


And when the air turned suddenly colder


And my hair turned a little bit grayer as I got older


I always used to say aloud


May peace be with you

And God carry you


Whenever you need to be to renew and carry in your heart


This thought that our old love which I pray still binds us

And we will never be apart 


Amen


And the sudden being watched sensations used to stop


So hopefully, 

Wherever you are


You will forever feel satisfied, our relationship was so special 


And something so magical 

Still in the twilight hours of living


Survives 

For it's now transcendental 


For although we both once had to wrestle hard like Samson and Goliath with the Devil


Our old love still blooms like a lone red rose 


So sentimental and vibrating with such vigour and bliss


And still follows me wherever my life

Goes


And will stand the test of time 


Like something once painted by the legendary Michaelangelo 


Goodnight and god blessed

My love


For I can feel you're here reading this


Forever yours

Terry 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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