. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Want to know something true

 


I write about many themes. Light and dark.


After a recent post regarding using a dark word, which I won't mention, but in the bible it's a gigantic dragon starting with L.


I needed a word to rhyme with candelabra, so elected for abracadabra.


Unknown to me, a summoning word used in real life magic


At around 2 to 4 am I entered a lucid state and a white flickering light appeared


Darkness chilled my bones and I was paralyzed 


An evil presence filled my view


A strange face flickered into existence 


Scared I prayed 

Speaking these words


In the name of God 

Begone


After the third repetition 


A bright light appeared with wings like an angel and made the entity go


It looked female, but the light was white and flickering, and I couldn't make out its glorious face 


The atmosphere changed, and I woke

Calm


Did an angel save me


Was it real


Well, I astral travel every night, so I know that dimension. 


It was as vivid as you're reading this


Trust in the power of prayer

Hopefully, it will save you too, as it saved me


Sending love and light

Your wanderer in The Great In-Between 


Poet 

John Duffy


P. S


My beloved mum was a psychic and it's probably why I have a gift 


I've been in 6 serious car crashes


Been electrocuted 


Had a near-death experience 


I have been in the tunnel of light


Walked the smoke-filled surface at the top of the golden tunnel of light as I died


Seen ghosts


Watched a witch doctor in a seance 


And many more unbelievable things to the normal person 


It's why I traverse such bizarre themes


Expressions like whispers 

Enter my mind


Hence 


A lone voice whispers


Abracadabra and

Thanks for reading


May the power of love and light keep you safe and those you love at peace


I now release you


Copyright John Duffy 

Good night 


(The picture represents my self image as I astral travel. 

Other realms exist. 

Sometimes, it feels as if in some places, people are waiting for my return. 

I've been chased.

Flew 

Destroyed demons with fire

Jumped miles in a leap

And created storms and force fields


Who said the power of our inner self isn't real


Did you know your unconscious mind works even harder when you sleep


REM


Where do you think it takes you

To a field to count sheep or to other realities 


I believe when you astral travel


You possess other versions of you in other realities 


But have powers for you are the original you

If you know how to conjure them


Who knows

I may visit you tonight


Call me

I'll be wearing a white flower pinned to my shawl dressed as above

Salute







Monday, March 10, 2025

Madam Astor The Dream Enchanter


 Madam Astor 

The Dream Enchanter


(A lone voice whispers by candlelight)


In a dark dream, 

Every night


In The Great In-Between, 

Whenever I dream

It's always the same


I hear you scream


"I'm here"

In your soft pulsating voice


Just hidden unseen

Not wanting to be seen


Then right out of the darkness and void


Above that darkness's noise emanating such fantastical heat


You appear like a half ghost in my midnight street and as my heart beats faster


You take my hand and lead me deeper in The Hereafter


Hidden still by the shadows, 

Bend low and whisper


"Call me Madam Astor

This realm's Pastor"


And as your sharp fingertips play a deep country tune across my skin 


As my astral sweat drips faster


Whenever my eyes start to spin and my soul speaks out and pleads to sin


You dig your nails in 

Even deeper into my skin and whisper


"Soon

So soon, I'll come to you in that quiet bedroom


For the last time


In two days after the fall of the midnight king, and the rise of the morning spring


I'll return to sing in this realm's unspoken rhymes, to make your spirit and eyes spin


One last time


Then fireworks will announce you're mine"



And then you're gone

Letting go of my hand


Leaving me standing alone at the gateway to The Blue Portal 


The way back to the land of living mortals


Gone with that soft pulsating goodbye ringing throughout my mind


Like church bells


But I can feel it's going to be soon you'll return


As time undeniably does fly

When you've been marked by a spell


Somewhere in that places darkness


The Hereafter 


For I've got goose pimples on my skin 


And tonights the fall of the midnight king and the rise of the morning spring


And deep down I know

You'll soon return


So hear this my call


I'm ready to take one last walk


With you

My dream enchanter from The Great In-Between 


Madam Astor

My soul's attractor and captor


The Great In-Between's

Ghostly Pastor 


My beloved wife


Who I once loved in the land of the living before Death 


Quietly crept up and grabbed her



(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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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

 


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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