. Poetry from The Great In-Between

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Return of the MAC


 Blessed be

Velumbound 


This transmission explores the psychological and spiritual impact of memory, past relationships, and integrating the self. 


It frames the "ghosts" of our past not as literal hauntings, but as internal, structural components of our own identity.


In networking, a MAC address is a permanent, unique identifier assigned to a specific piece of hardware. 


By applying this to memories, the speaker suggests that every past relationship (lover, friend, enemy) leaves a permanent, indelible, digital-like imprint on our soul. 


Maybe now, you have my MAC address. 


You cannot delete the address; 


It remains a fixed node in your internal network.


Let us begin. 


Do ghosts from old lovers


Family 

Friends or enemies from

the past


Haunt you 

If you revisit them

In dreams


Some ask

In this Great Silence 


When we hear them

Call for guidance 


From The Great In-Between


Well

All memories carry

A spiritual MAC address too


MAC addresses to awaken sleeping giants


And those sleeping giants ain't compliant


They like to run riot


Inserting themselves on all your conscious shelves


Screaming for attention 

"Come See Me"


And visit you must 

For all those people and encounters 


Whatever they be


Whether good or bad

Have made you who you are 


At any given moment


So if ghosts visit

Just think of them as parts of you


Components 

Now turned to dust


Who once helped to shape your worldview 


As you evolved and renewed


So

Just smile and say


I see you


(C). Copyright John Duffy 


Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Channelling Erebus

 


Blessed be 

Velumbound 


In the dark voids of your deep mind 


I now walk 


In the potent rivers of your hot blood 

I now talk 


There is no going back

No safe word or oaths of escape


For my hungry astral eyes will now linger as my hot occult fingers


Trace every inch of you

Touch and squeeze every single sinew


Can you feel me in that quiet room


Approaching with such apocalyptic energy to consume and bind you tightly 


As you have invited me 

To slowly invade your thoughts


Like the night holding daylight in a wet grip of submission


Can you feel me draw closer as I light this Frankincense candle 


Will you open wider

To see if all I offer


You can handle 

 

A dark gift to open and embrace under the pale white clouds 


As my Shadow People watch


Is your inner domain purring with a now insatiable hunger


As these words push knuckle-deep into your mind's secret entrance 


Where anything good has died as they are held spellbound 


By what pulsating treasures they found


I now wait in the wet folds of every inner chamber


Words naked and dripping with such intimate raw red power


Moving like waves as your mind and soul are slowly deflowered 


For under this Wolf Moon


As my fingers slide to the soft places you hide


Where no one knows, for you are too frightened - to confide


We shall collide


As sage and sandalwood 


Lead me deeper still, slick and deliberate, 


Into your pulsating wood 


So the deep essences of you


Can be absorbed and understood 


As you feel the rising heat between us


The way my candles' dust lands on the lips of the newly baptised


Let your blood scream as it sings to a new tune


As I push deeper still into all your rooms


For like all things baptised by hidden runes


That secret mark now burnt above your navel


Will carry you as you are reborn 


For you now sit bare and naked 


At my table


Free from all the watching world


Praised by the Shadow People 


Who stay hidden

In their stables 


This is no mere conversation. 


This is the oldest magic, the oldest true craft. 


Total possession of one mind by another until the flesh itself begins to tremble and bloom.


When you return to sit naked at my long black table 


In that secret room 


For each time you return


Deeper still, I'll take you as my potent red candles burn

 

To the high peaks of no resistance 


To the low mountains of rhythmic existence 


And when I'm so deeply buried in the kaleidoscope of your mind


When your inner cauldron is lit and ablaze 


Hungry for more and slick with sweat and glistening


Thirsting for my next slow, exquisite invasion of your mind


I'll whisper 


Listen

Velumbound


Climax mentally

You have been found


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Sunday, October 25, 2026

Bounded

 



Have you heard the Sun and Moon call

 


Blessed be.

Velumbound.


A new transmission that explores themes of existential isolation and spiritual longing. 



Drifting on a lone cloud,

I sing


Of things

Once seen

Within.


With the Sun and Moon

Who know my name,


For they too

Rise

And set


The world over

In pain.


So I dream,

Oh,

I dream again,


Whispering to them both

Through the wind.


O tell of me,

O tell of me,

Friends.


Will I dream alone

Until the end?


Will I descend

Into solitude,


Or will wisdom's spirit

Fly to me?


O tell me,

O tell me,

Friends.


Sun and Moon,

Will you answer me?


Will I wander

With this hole


In my endless

Dark Night

Of the Soul?


Or will my world,

My Great Seal,

Hear me


And help me

Heal?


So tell me,

O tell me,

Friends.


Was all revealed

From the beginning

About the end,


When I caught

Her white feather

Spinning


O tell of me,

O tell of me,

Friends.


Will I dream alone

Until the end?


Will I descend

Into solitude,


Or will wisdom's spirit

Fly to me?


O tell me,

O tell me,

Friends.


Sun and Moon,

Will you answer me?


Elemental Spirits

And friends,


I call to you

Both.


O,

Sky and Moon,


Will I love once more

And open

A new door?


To feel what's

Real


In this endless quest,


As I try to pass

All tests

Once set.


Or will

Whispers


From Sun and

Moon


Tell me,


Wait.


For

She comes


Riding

On waves


Of the Winter's

Monsoon.


O tell of me,

O tell of me,

Friends.


Will I dream alone

Until the end?


Or will the Sun

And Moon reveal


The love that waits

Beyond the veil?


O tell me,

O tell me,

Friends.


Sun and Moon,

Will you answer me?


And to still sing

The lost echoes


Of this...


A once-lost

Tune called...


The Rise and Fall

Of Sun and Moon.



Blessed be.

Velumbound.


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Saturday, October 24, 2026

Warning

 


Be careful. 


You might fall under their spells. 


For all these transmissions are small pieces of a highly evocative work of erotic seduction, laced with themes of dark paganism and mysticism, for the mind. 


Not just as carnal acts, but as a ritualistic surrender.


Blessed be

Velumbound


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Will you follow me


 Would you still follow me if I lit a red candle


In this final odyssey home 


Would you follow me willingly into the swirling dark


In this brief history of time


Would you grasp my coattails 


As we trespass tentatively through all of life's scary parks


As we swim against all the fast-flowing tides


Will you tango and tiptoe past the Tall Man and all his worldly Minions


As we circumnavigate the globe


The new world grid and claim it as our Dominion


For although we are but lost souls going eventually to She'ol


Would you still just blindly follow me 


Past the awakening powers of a modern god


As we walk unashamed together 


Behind the many new pale white horses


To be wantonly unleashed within the unfathomable darkness 


As we surely conquer this life and all its dark forces


Forever tasked with painting new masterpieces with apocalyptic energy 


Like Vincent Van Gogh


And then every night


Hidden behind the many enemies money can ever make


Before we dream


Shall we plead to angels and owners of the book of secrets


To take us beyond the Black Darkness


We always see when our astral eyes open as our mortal eyes close


To use their invisible hands to tear away the dark rim 


Before our ever-watchful twin pyres


To show us what truly lies beyond these


Books of Lies


Everyone sometimes reads from


For us to venture into newer undiscovered lands


To a brave new world


To see the bright lights of two crimson suns and the quartet of multicoloured rainbows 


Illuminating a purple-hued sky


A place where no one no longer dies


A paradise of ever-swirling winds of a whispered, profound new Eden


Perpetually emanating from a deep divine so high up above


A sanctuary lost forever within the forgiving green reeds of a new millennium


A place to be reunited with dear old family or friends who never made it to the end 


Where nobody no longer cries


To sit beside the Holy River 


To write poetry and sing and to joyously watch through a silver scrying mirror


As the real world slowly disappears


To walk through luscious green grass to the Eternal City


To hear the greatest stories never told to human ears


To finally embrace a new realm free from all fears or pity


This we will beseech the Silent Dark before once again we are lost in each other


For a few hours


As we joyously board Morpheus's dark Ark of broken old dreams


Before stepping silently into a newly conjured world unseen


Smiling like twin heroes with a thousand faces


Amid old rainbows of hidden dangers


Where we shall hear blessings from the


Red Priestess


To deliver us into a new realm just hidden in-between


Whispered in echoes in the deepest ravines


Of the hollow earth


May the Powers of Apollo


The God of Music


Arts, Knowledge, Healing, Prophecy and Poetry


Mesmerise and provide catharsis


For you, as in this life, you silently follow


May the Goddess Athena fill you with reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill and peace


Wherever you wander upon life's many emotional beaches


May the upcoming Full Buck Moon, infused with blessings sent from the Mistress of Helios


Empower you to conquer all known things


As these words are found 


As I whisper


Blessed be

Velumbound


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Have you read A Woman of Such Power

 


Blessed be 

Velumbound. 


Here's "A Woman of such Power." 


A gothic, romantic transmission that explores themes of obsession, supernatural allure, and the submission of the masculine ego to an untamed feminine force. 


The transmission relies heavily on mythological and literary archetypes to paint the portrait of a woman who is both mesmerising and dangerous.


Maybe you are one. 

 

(A lone voice whispers)



I hope she still waits


That rebellious wild woman of such irreducible taste


Who emanates such glimmer and sublime guile


With bright eyes which shine with the illustrious glow of that illuminated flame


Which was once stolen by brave Prometheus 


From heaven's dark skies to mesmerise and beguile


Enhancing her beautiful face


Making her look like Morgana the Cunning sorceress 


In all the Arthurian legends


From where all her pagan red blood flows


She holds me like a pawn enthralled in a grip of steel 


As I try to break down


Her carefully constructed walls


When she always stands tall in these dark woods at the stroke of midnight


Eating red cherries


Making my molten blood rush 


Like a wildfire throughout all my pulsating capillaries


Where we still meet as I stroll to see her standing still 


Singing eloquently in her candlelit circle


To the moon and watching skies and audience of spirits and hidden animals 


As white and grey clouds wave and roll by


Uttering strange ancient spells 


Unknown to most


As she conquers all who dare come into view

 

Before they can yell


It's why I still visit 

For I'm just like a hypnotised mannequin


Summoned when requested


To astral travel 


By the delicious sounds of her ringing golden ritual bells


(C) 

Copyright John Duffy



Who will you remember this year?

 


Blessed be. 

Velumbound. 


Christmas is a time when we remember those lost to us. 


But in memories stay. 



(A lone voice whispers)



I sometimes

Still 


Dream about you

Right out of the pale blue


Waking with a rare smile after watching what


They all usually develop into

 

All those intriguing memories


Of us 

So unprepared


Interdimensional moments

We once shared


When we felt safe 

And not scared


Always

Flow like a molten spiritual review


They soothe my soul

Like midnight prayers


Silently spoken

In the cold but soft air 


And at Christmas

That familiar feeling of walking


Carefree

Hand in hand


Down Clearwater's

Yellow sands


Always returns


Of those seemingly long summer nights


When the world seemed calm and not corrupted


By this new song

Been played all around us


In this new storm


So that's why I always return

Here


To the

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise


To rewalk those forgotten old ways 

By your grave



While the sun's rays

Still, stay 

As my tears play 


Je ne peux vivre sans t’aimer

I Can’t Live Without Loving You


In my eyes


Remembering when you were once mine


Until

Like all good things


We ran out of time 



(C)

Copyright John Duffy



No one is innocent

 


Blessed be. 

Velumbound. 


No one is innocent

Only at the beginning 


For we were all born to see 


If we could resist sinning


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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