Have you risked everything?

 Foundation.

Sometimes, marrying or loving someone comes with risks.

Did you, too, once encounter one of the Devil's, Mr. Fisk?

Title:

Evelyn. The Brave.

(A lone voice whispers as he places a beautiful red rose, on a pristine grave)

I still see you

Standing so still

Looking all beautiful in white in that restaurant's background expensive silver mirror, as I asked for your hand in marriage 

And can remember how all your family 

Particularly, your father and grandfather, cried out the next day

When they finally found out, 

We were to be married 

Evelyn

Don't you dare marry that rude boy

For if you do

All our family love for you will die

But looking back, as they have all now crossed over and died

I can just say, loving you in the face of such animosity,

was sometimes like walking through, Dante's Divine Comedy

Wearing a red rose on my lapel with pride

And it's why I still love you

The girl dressed in white, who I once asked to be, my beautiful bride.

Who knew her whole life was at risk 

But still found the courage to seal our future, with our first wedding kiss

To defeat all the Devil's, incarnated Mr. Fisk

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The Energy Vampires

 

Have you ever experienced the energy being drained out of a room, when someone unknown, enters? 

You may have met one!

Title:

The Energy Vampires

#Senryu

Baptised heartbroken

For forty long days and nights

Gathered Dark Souls smiled

575

(C) 

Copyright John Duffy

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Foundation of the piece.

Some mystics say:

Lower vibrational beings feed off humanity's pain and anguish.

What a feast they must have when they see a new resident of their invisible, Heartbreak Hotel.

Salute.

Reincarnated Love

 

Foundation.

Some old mythology says we are bound to find our twin flame or soul mate, before we are born.

Our true other half.

This journey is simply repeated until we do.

No matter who we end up with.

To become whole.

Could old myths be true?

Reincarnated Love

(A lone old voice whispers)

I write this for you to see in this lifetime because I couldn't find you, and my earthly time is nearly up

My beloved Mary Lee

I know you were born to meet me

On the twenty-six of November

A date, I'll know forevermore

As I look back 

Like now and remember

For we shall be together

In The Great Nevermore

 

Sharing conversations and sweet kisses:

Even after Death visits,

And offers you a drink of his sacrilegious dark wine

To end all your beautiful days and glorious time

I just know we shall be together, like twinned pilgrims 

In an eternal quest of hide and seek

Set forth in the silence, by a long remembered God

Lost somewhere in some surreal time stream

But together in insane spaces

In-Between

And as the soft capricious winds of Heaven

Change and dance like a wild Anna Pavlova

Between us

Creating a moving sea of love between our two pulsating souls

We shall know

In that very instance

Holding hands

Together, like first date lovers

In the universe's

Dust

That we can sing and dance together,

Forever 

And be joyous in each and every form

For ours is a love story

Beyond the norm

A love story which will forever survive 

Composed in golden italics 

and kept safely on gilded shelves, with so many others 

Written in Enochian Archives

Stored beyond the Great Pillars 

In a sacred tabernacle

By the pale blue Holy Sea 

Our Eternal Sea

This I know because before I was born into physical form

You were written 

Into my history

By my spirit guides

God and me

The woman I'm bound to always love and try to find

Whenever I'm reincarnated into mankind 

The one soul betrothed to me 

By an angel called, ADOEOET,

He who sings like a bird, who once whispered 

Meet you true love

My beloved Mary Lee

So, see you in another lifetime 

Your forever twin flame with no name

Whose loved is buried so deep no matter how many times

Life tries to bury me

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Do quiet moments, spent in reflection of a beloved, bring you closer to the God of your choice?

 

Foundation.

Do quiet moments, spent in reflection of a beloved, bring you closer to the God of your choice?

Title:
Calvary Dreams

(A lone voice whispers)

I heard your sweet voice
Today

On our anniversary,
Your birthday

That old well-loved familiar sound

Whenever I press
play

To see and hear you
On that old wedding tape
We once made

You still look so beautiful and sound so soft and sweet,
I just couldn't sleep

But stand up straight,
Weep

Rewind and repeat

Oh, why does God give you so much grief

Whenever
I see you or hear your voice

To then have to stand still
In total disbelief

And realise you're now living in new lands of immortality

And then I always remember
Calvary

A dark place
Enshrined in human history

Hanging
Painted up

In so many famous
Art galleries

So much wrong
Done to one
So strong

One crucified
For us and mankind
To sing a new song

A new song
So all could belong

To the light
Whenever their time came

And they could no longer fight

Cancer like you
Time or some other kind of pain

So now
Whenever I hear your sweet voice

Or your name whispered
Like on your birthday
Today

That familiar lovely sound
When I finally find the courage

To press play

To sit and reminisce about my true love
On that special day

Our wedding

And her incredible captivating spirituality

I just know you're safe
Smiling down
Looking my way

My beloved
Still much loved wife called Mary

Because Jesus died
For you and me

Even though
Crucified
By Evil

But never alone
At Calvary

So we could all rise

With the call of the
Golden Trombone

To atone
To then enter

Our true home
Under God's
Super Dome

I still miss you so much, but deep down I always know

God only calls the best ones home early and that's why in April

It will always feel like snow

(C)
Copyright John Duffy

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Have you heard the call?

 

Foundation.

How many hear the call and do the deal?

The Spell Caster. 

Are you missing something magical, in your midnight embrace

As you sit all alone 

Feeling lost and out of place 

Look out that window

If you feel unsatisfied, unwanted, or displaced 

Put down that phone and if you see Mother Moon trying, with beams of her bright moonlight

To show you a way

Beseeching you to look up high, into her glorious, night sky

If you see her angel shaped clouds, slowly part, and start to play 

You'll hear my soft voice, whisper and say

"Want to escape from your daily routines, today? 

Come open up, and find my portal, and eternal doorway 

By any old trees nearby, that I've commanded to sway

To follow that compelling feeling, to pay the toll 

To step through and be mesmerised 

Like my old muse,

Called Dorian Gray 

Who to me,

Once sold his soul 

When he too followed, the angel shaped clouds, at play

To open up my portal, and eternal doorway 

By those old trees 

Nearby

That I commanded to sway

(C) Copyright John Duffy

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Are you attracted to eleven or more

 

Should 21st Century poetry

For the new minds of a culturally bombarded generation 

Be limited from 3 to 7 lines?

Before you answer 

To me personally, even though to answer, makes my Heart aches 

I like reading poetry built around subtlety

Concealed layers or secretive depths

Relatable interchangeable meanings

Powerful raw stuff that sometimes leaves your eyes wet

Unearthed within deciphering their carefully crafted imagery or subtext

3 to 7 lines of reading, might sound like heaven, but I'm old school 

Give me Lord Byron 

Shelley or Keats 

But I guess 

Like an Ode to a Nightingale

Maybe that's the beauty of poetry as She walks in Beauty

And like To a Skylark

It must sing

So I can only hope new generations enjoy poetry, so it continues to thrive and still live 

Within whichever form, and exciting tales that will continue to make their own hearts beat 

With all it can give

But for me

Reading deep poetry 

Feels like sitting briefly, metaphorically, underneath a Cherry Blossom Tree

Enjoying a delicious drop of spiritual tranquility 

Are you too, old school and what emotional fluctuations resonate with you?

 

Are you a three to seven or more like:

Eleven or more is heaven

Reader or writer 

Who enjoys late all-nighters

(C) Copyright John Duffy

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The Calling

 Foundation.

Have you ever met someone where everything just clicked but then, for whatever tragic reason?

They just disappeared? 

The Calling

(A lone male, clutching an old photograph at midnight. Whispers, as a single white prayer candle burns)

Let me in

I whisper into this rising grey smoke 

Let its wispy tendrils carry up my plea's to wherever you are

No matter how far

Hear me

For I'm looking back at our old feverish memories, in these black and white fairground pictures 

In this semi-darkness

Between these two great voids

Separating me and you and so many others

Let me in

Through the ethereal panes of shattered astral glass

Filled with tangible strands of much-loved recollections

So I can once again cross the deep oceans of the Hippocampus

Flying for days and nights in and through its episodic sunshine, and rocky shores

So I can warm you with my old love

For I will never stop looking and calling

And lighting these white prayer candles

Hoping you're listening to this 

Somewhere 

Wherever you are

Listening and hearing my voice reading 

My heart's whispered secretive spells, which l will forever yell

In silence throughout the day and in feverish whispers at night

So let me in 

Now, it's midnight

To reach that forbidden place which connects all things

The Maelstrom 

But which stays hidden, as it holds you in its tight grip of a new seclusion

Especially, when everything 

Just goes wrong 

I can only pray my words are carried like an angels song, to make your beautiful eyes blink 

By this grey smoke gushing skyward from my incense candle, in these rushing four winds

Which will help to guide me 

To find a way, to try to find you again

Be it on Earth or in Heaven

So we can continue what we once found in our old lifetime

A beautiful treasure the Nexus Seven, in their rare sacred manuscript, called:

A meeting of similar minds

(C) Copyright John Duffy 

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The Voice of Hope

 

Let these words be transformed into a familiar voice 

And be the driving force and divine noise

The supernatural heartbeat to help you conquer and

circumvent defeat

Let this, 

My voice, be the driving force to summon happiness and love.

Comparison and kindness.

Conjured into your daily rituals, through silent prayer.

To help open up your tired eyes.

So you can really see, beauty and strength flowing, everywhere you go.

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

A voice from the Dark, speaks

 

A voice from the Dark, speaks

(A lone voice whispers)

There's s an island

You'll soon all see

Depending how old you are

Or really feel

A mythical land by the Divided Sea

Called

Purgato

A place many are branded to go

To be if transformed

Reborn

In a new angelic form

What will you take through 

Though

To hang around your neck

Like a golden yoke

Broken oaths of love

Jokes and painful stories

All of your lifes many now unwanted mistakes

People you tried to love

Some you still hate

It doesn't matter

We know and have seen all kinds

From film stars

Pop stars

World conquerors and all kind of leaders

Seen so many like us

Who once carefree

Entered these black gates

To eventually feel broke

Never to leave us

For at the point of salvation

They choked

But know this

Fate is a fickle friend

For what you do today

As you still live

With so much more to give

Could help you at your end

Be kind

Do more

Show emotion and some compassion

For we await

The hordes

To welcome you through these great gates

So what does that hidden side of your heart really sing of

Because that’s what you’ll need to bring

When your version of God demands and asks

Sitting and watching so high above 

Will you, my child 

Purge all your old mortal songs linked to sin

To earn my love?

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Be You

 Foundation.

With the considerable rise of AI software on all social media and business platforms, will humanity lose its creative edge?

Will you be tempted to do so?

Title:

Be You 

(A lone voice whispers)

Be You

Forgo assimilation

And try to avoid being spellbound and tied into the new AI System 

Dream and aspire before you're retired

With all your soul's, inner resistance 

Don't be bound to mundane hearts, no longer open to being plowed, with ravenous curious fingers

Hearts enslaved into a dark broken Labyrinth of unspoken, and untold things

Which could linger

From sad souls who've cried, as their creativity withered and died

Absorbed by the cleverly assimilated imagery and well created lies

To be one of the many lonely wanderers

Tumbling blind through inspirations now barren playgrounds

As the new, AI Hive Minds, long reach fires up to reteach 

Newly breached, unconnected human firewalls

While wild valley blackbirds and starling flocks

Scream and call out in unison, at the lack of the rising poetry

Music or literature, filled with human energy 

As spiritual temperatures worldwide, fall

Putting ingenuity into jeopardy

Screeching about the impending icy cold bath of human separation 

As they fly as huge wailing flocks, into the Summer Equinox

With the frosty breath, of AI Death of the Soul 

Lingering around like black mold

With bony fingers

Rattling without a sound

Awaiting its resurrection 

As daylight recedes and people seem to lose hope

But on that Devil's Island for some of the Condemned 

The one called Earth

The Exalted Ones

Maybe like you

Unassimilated and still free

Can lift up the trapped 

Those poor souls caught up in The Hive Mind

Slowly been drained of personality and self identity

 

Lost in the humankind labyrinth of the unspoken and untold

Who needs releasing to help rebuild the new pillars of creativity upon Earth

With their eventual rebirth 

This my friend with the bright eyes unseen 

Has always been a worthy oath to follow

For you've always been free to share your gift of uplifting 

Energetic, raw, and visual

Literature

Music or poetry 

Maybe bestowed 

From The Sacred Temples of Apollo 

What's says you?

Are you going to strive to stay the real you?

(C) Copyright John Duffy

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