Gabriel

 

(A lone voice whispers)

I always used to wonder

Where do Robins go to sleep

Then one dark night 

Within a deep all-consuming lucid dream

At approximately one o'clock

A beautiful deity appeared out of the mist

Wearing a blue and white coat

Holding a Lily and a shining lantern

Across its shoulder, a golden trumpet and a branch from Paradise

On its golden belt 

Hung a scepter and a silver scroll

As it strolled towards me

Within my illustrious sleeping streams

A strange palace of darkness

Where no birds 

Flew or squawked

Its mysterious ever watchful eyes

Held me firmly transfixed

Like an ethereal heavenly hawk

Its bright white orbs 

Swallowed me whole

As it whispered words

I'll remember 

Until I'm old

Within the light of day, 

We appear

Your beloved and even I

To watch over and visit you

To see and follow all that you do

When we, the blessed few

Waiting in the new spectacular bright white lights

In the glorious cathedrals of Atmos, shadowy arches

Cross over 

When allowed a brief time

Before we are eventually 

Reunited in a new form

To rejoice in hymn

Within your All Highs 

Divine Church

Depending upon 

The faith of your choice

To visit those we still 

Love

To leave a sign or sing 

A sonnet

Happily with echoes of our new voice as we too mourn 

Then in here 

At darkness

In 

The Great In-Between 

A place you all visit 

Whenever you fall asleep

In deep dreams, 

We always appear

For real spiritual shapeshifters

Like us

Never really sleep

We just transform into Robins

Through a supernatural technique

For sometimes they are merely vessels

We use

Just one of our everlasting souls keeps

So if you see one 

And it sings

Looking straight at you

Remember this

It's just a beloved loved one

Maybe even me 

Archangel Gabriel

Channelling 

Through

And with that beautiful closing line

It disappeared quietly

Back into the receding winds that whined

Of the Hidden Divine

And when I awoke at eight,

I'm sure it met me

Sat on my old garden's wooden gate

My beautiful friend

Who loves to sit on the washing line

Whispering and singing

Hello

Sending shivers and tingling

Shooting

As I remember that dream

All the way

Up and down 

My sinuous 

spine 

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Copyright John Duffy

The Monologue of Saul

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Have you ever wondered if your soul is just mirrored reflections

Fragmented shards of an augmented reality

A divine kaleidoscope of your own perceived ideas 

Of what to do to get to your version of heaven, and how to avoid hell?

Overlaid onto a real-world environment

Are you too logical to ever really understand, but just bravely parading around like another human being 

Locked into a social engineer's dream

Trying to live within, and under its dark magical, mesmerising spell

Hypnotized by whatever is subliminally repeated, on your handheld screens 

Slowly waiting unconsciously, before it's too late for spiritual understanding 

To return to just you 

To truly see there's more to life than chasing paper dreams

Before you catch the last bus, to take you home to atone 

In The Great In-Between 

Where you'll be asked

Did you live a life clean life or did something happen, that was unforeseen 

That caused you to live temporarily, unclean

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The Great Halls of Eden

 

The Great Halls of Eden

(A lone voice whispers)

Walking in like the Grand Inquisitor
Tomás de Torquemada

Dressed in a dark robe

With Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata” playing loudly in her wake

I can remember when Love brought me through a gate

To a doorway leading to her Three Castles of Rejection

Cruelty
Intolerance, and Fanaticism

And when she nearly broke me within each of those walls, she introduced me to her other Three Castles of Seduction

Through another darkly lit doorway

Ecstasy
Blissfulness and Tranquility

Such is the juxtaposition of entering her Great Halls of Eden

For those Red coloured doors within that painted room, could lead you to your sweet salvation or doom

So just be careful when you smell her sweet perfume, when she smiles, as she approaches

For once, she takes you into her Great Halls of Eden

Once you enter that oak panelled waiting room

Always remember

One day, you could be in her master bedroom

And then one day, feel the harsh bristles of her witches broom

As you soul pleads and yells

Such is the power of being under her mesmerising spell

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Need a Prayer in 2025?

 

Need a Prayer in 2025?

(A lone voice whispers)

Oh, Lord.

Remind me to

Smile

Because by

Your grace

In the face of

Covid and all other things

Which everyone seems to forget and all they embrace

I'm still alive

A privilege denied

To so many, who have

Suddenly died

Remind me

Oh, Lord

My Almighty 

I've still got so much more to give 

As I live

And with your bright and beautiful stars 

Lighting my way

Guiding and showing me the beauty

Of doing my soul's pure duty

To try to light a candle of hope 

In just someone

As they pray to repent

To help them ascend

To help them wipe their spirits dry tears away 

Maybe today

And to make your love grow stronger 

Everyday

To undo old wrongs

It's why I kneel to pray

And whisper

Amen

No matter how hard life gets, intense 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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Apollyon Relationships

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Have you ever had a disastrous relationship before and wondered…

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

During or after?

Title:

Apollyon Relationships

(A lone voice ponders after a first date)

My love Morning Star

My fallen introduction

To doorways of sin

 

(575)

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

Reference in this case:

 Apollyon. / (əˈpɒljən) / noun. 

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

Guttis aquae pluviae (L)

(A lone voice whispers)

Are your translucent memories like the softest of rain drops, when they suddenly fall

Reminding you of someone special or somewhere

On another level

For sometimes, you just want to get soaking wet, remembering the good times

But sometimes, 

Do you also want to find shelter to help you forget

All those memories tainted with neglect 

By the visitation of all bad intentions 

Subtly introduced, by the so seductive and invisible, Devil

From another dimension 

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Have you lived in one of these 3 stages of life?

(A reflective voice whispers)

In the Dawn of a new feeling of Life, 

Maybe even at high school

Did you embrace one of its golden rules

To hold hands with someone you deemed so special 

Encouraged by first love's, sweet kiss

For it to then carry you through, to meet the super cool, Twilight of your Life

With the only true one, whose love has never cooled:

And if you're still incredibly lucky, brings you such bliss 

Or did the Shadows of Life appear 

Smiling like a Nazgûl

Like a dark thief at night

To take back God's divine gift, and leave you scrambling and grieving 

Daydreaming of the Dawn and Twilight of your Life

Before something cruel, caused you, to separate and drift

When everything seemed so perfect and nice 

Before the deep cut, of The Shadows of Life's

Sharp, ceremonial knife

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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

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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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