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Secret Confessions

Secret Confessions

(A lone voice whispers)

You're my book of revelations

Every page, a divine creation

My alpha and my omega

My rebirth through every weather

You’re the rhythm in my heartbeat

Soft and sacred when you hold me

Life and death inside your eyes

Heaven wrapped in your sighs

And if you walk away from me…
Oh girl, what would I be?

If your faith in me is gone…
Tell me how do I go on?

You’re my hope… and my joy
My night… and my day
Don’t you ever drift away

You’re my light… when I’m lost

The only truth I can’t deny
Girl, you’re my reason why

Oh stay… stay… don’t fade away

You’re the song my soul can’t destroy
My hope… my joy…

If you leave, I’d be in shadows
Dancing with my broken echoes

Every prayer would sound your name
Every tear would fall the same

You’re the fire in my silence

The calm within my storm of violence

Only you have ever known
The child inside I’ve never shown

So if in me you don’t believe…
Girl, that’s all I’d ever need

To fall apart, to lose my way…
Don’t let our love just fade to grey…

(C) Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme


Doctor White

(A lone voice whispers)

Are there many quiet times
When you look above

And are there are many crazy raucous times

When you’re also forced to
Look below

Can you still feel tendrils of
Old memories from your
Hidden archives

That cathedral you may now
Call the Ghetto Château

Where lost love or heartbreaks
Resonate

Vibrating in those very rooms
You try to outgrow

 

Are there still small moments and

Infusions of tranquil bouts of welcomed insurrection

Silent revolutions or tired times of forced rebellions

On the surface

Above

Are you so seemingly filled with Love

And sweet smiles and compassion

A face you parade to the world watching

 But below

Where the husky darkness
Multiplies and you breathe it
Deeply in

As it flourishes and grows

Do
Invisible feelings of self-doubts

Deep inner fears and invisible tears

Call when you visit to endlessly fall

Do you wonder

Will they stay
Will they go away

All questions heralding from the smiling

Mister Who Knows
Who lives inside me

Just having a silent conversation
With you

My secret hidden alter

I call him
Doctor White

Dressed in his white coat
And with his foolish stares

I can still see him smiling everywhere.

Especially when I drink
Some wet kelter

Like my soul's satisfying
Mescaline

I may seem calm and collected

Above too
But beneath that very shimmering

Surface

I fear being totally rejected
But for now, I’ll still smile and play

Empowered with the hope
That the good memories

 Will stay this time
I will no longer need

To revisit my deep depths and
Those old rooms

I always seem to trespass through

A place my soul
Sometimes visits and all light

Is bereft

As Doctor White
Visits

Walking casually and smiling through

All my precious light and dark

Memories rivers

 

Maybe tonight I’ll but stay firmly standing in those

Filled with love and lights

 
Standing steadfastly in the hope

They will stay the night

 

 (C)
Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

A voice in the dark whispers

Foundation.

With uncertainty flowing like a molten volcano around the world, and online. 

Is it within dark times like these, we should try to bring more light into the world?

Title:

A voice in the dark whispers

Lookup
Not down

And be drawn
Into spiritual degradation

Or dark temptations
Linked to politics or the flesh
By the Red Dragon 

But to blue clouds
Filled with sacred tetragons

With belief in whatever you know as good, be held
In-Depth

For the son of Cronus and Rhea

Brother of Zeus and Poseidon
Grows ever near

To welcome you into his waterless Barren Lands

Delighting in unimaginable fear

So be
Precipitous

And look up to
Defeat the rolling Abyss
Ruled by Hades 

Hidden 
Within
Its mists

Espouse goodness
While you still
Live

Like a sweet Valentine's Day kiss

And try to avoid
The Void 

Filled with those 
Who now pay a hefty
Price

But enter into new lands of Spiritual Paradise

With your selfless acts
Of kindness and self-sacrifice 

Will you try to do good?

Or will you follow those who will suffer bitterness, when a star called, Wormwood, 
Falls?

(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

The Red Priestess

The Red Priestess 

Within my dark dreams she always appears and...... 

She sends me deep spiritual treasures 
to read and absorb

By my mind's
Scrying Mirrors 

In the silvery moonlights many reflective walls

Which are in plain view 
but just hidden from all

My crimson priestess from the Red Church 

With a multitude of dark 
confessional rooms

Hidden from mortal eyes
Above and below

Only known to them 
Who are truly 
In the know 

Come listen and hear my calls

And join me upon my quest

She always whispers when I dream 

There's a red room in here

With silk sheets adorned 
with diamonds and gold 

Where you can be my guest forever 

Until you are old

I'll send you ancient spells to drive your success

Compassion and kindness

To leave for others to follow in your footsteps

I await in the deep ravines 
Currently unexplored by you 

Look deep within yourself tonight

With the thinning of the veil between your world and mine

After the stroke of midnight

And
I'll appear before your eyes and claim your mind

I'll take you back 

Through the dark corridors of the hidden cities and towns 

To the Red Church 
of Such Spiritual Salvation 

And there 
I will trace my soft fingertips

Along your new road maps to a new recovery
and tempestuous realms
 
Of such redemption

That you will stay and never return 

But it's here in this room 
Your bedroom 
Tonight 

Your ticket you'll earn 

Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

The Voice in the Shadows

(A lone voice whispers)

Did you know that curiosity can be the soul's only guilty heartfelt desire?

 An irrepressible longing from emotions, many hidden fires.

That awakens convulsions in the newly possessed.

Of secretive things once never felt or expressed.

To the heavy loads, signalling the quiet redesigning of a pure soul.

As it explores new goals?

Like the falling of a tear, the feeling of fear or the bright sunshine of a rare smile?

Which shines like real gold in illuminated green eyes.

Trying desperately to devour all things before they die.

 Only to then hear one day in God's low whispers:

"Did you seek curiosities only goals, the soul's only guilty heartfelt desire, my child?

When they were all presented by the Devil, and its insidiously lit warm fires.

Before you died?

To tempt you like Eve, right out of the blue?

Or did you try to stay pure with all the divine gifts I once gave you?


(C) Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme


An Ode to Love

An Ode to Love

(A lone voice whispers) 

Is Love
Like one

Finding a South Philippine Dwarf Kingfisher

One of the World's 
Rarest birds 

A much-welcome visitor 
To see and treasure 
Sunbathing in the sun 

Or two
Does it sometimes 
Fly high 

Like an extraordinary Golden Eagle

Over all emotional 
Physical or Spiritual 
Battlefields 

As it goes-to-war 

With family 
Friends 
Religion or politics 

For true love never 
Yields 

Or three
is it just like a form of 
Fast Love
 
That just runs 
Jumps out the door and hits the road 

Looking for a new lascivious episode

After its heavy load 
Explodes 
When it's had its fun

And finally, 
Which one have you experienced 
 
Did love find you or betray you 

Like Judas Iscariot?

(C) 
Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

Renewal

(A lone voice whispers)

In the wind,  
In a gale, or at sea,  

Evoked by angels at daylight,  
Awoken by devils at midnight.  

And just broken  
In between.  

I once wandered like Dante,  
Experiencing heaven and hell  

Simultaneously,  
Like a shadow being,  
A Djinn.  

Unfolded like a rare, old-world map,  
Cold and lost as life's winds destroyed all my sanctuaries.  

I once used as cover while my broken heart recovered.  

But today,  

On December the fifth,  
The third day after you left,  

I feel resurrected and reincarnated like Mephibosheth.  

For, like in all relationships, holding Death's cold hands while you once wandered isn’t real death:
  
Only a tragic play.  

Yet one can feel burnt at the stake,  

Like the family and servants in a play 

Written by someone known as Shakespeare,  
Called Macbeth.  

(C) Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

The Riders of the Grey Smoke

 The Riders of the Grey Smoke
In a dark dream

Lost in the Midnight Garden
I looked for you

Within its semi-darkness

I walked through the softly blowing winds 
Of The Lands of the Ether and Blue

And called out loudly to you 
Praying you'd answer 
To help me get through

But in that dark dream
Lost in the Midnight Garden

It stayed so silent
That only the swirling grey smoke whispered
In a gentle voice

Go back, traveller
For there is no rescue

For no familiar voices
You know 
Are here to answer

Or waiting for you

Only us
The Riders of the Grey Smoke

Known as Asphodel Meadows
Necromancers

Who gives you this choice
Or you could stay 

And be transmuted into this grey smoke like us

To serve a new queen 
To eternally rejoice

What says you 
The walker 

From beyond
The Lands 
Of The Ether and Blue

Do you want to join us
And never need to be rescused
(C)
Copyright John Duffy



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Form: Rhyme

Dianna the Moon Queen

Foundation 

Are we being watched by unseen supernatural beings?

Some say any reflective surfaces, like mirrors and water, are but conduits.

Viewing stations used throughout history and any nation 

Title
Dianna the Moon Queen 

(A regal female voice whispers)

Take this, 
These softly spoken words 

As the sacred keys to open my Tower of Regeneration 
And as my high moon sets

Call to me with all your divine power
From any nation

And I'll help you conquer your own abyss 
With a full life and a real love

Guided by my light 
At your side
To open your heart wide 

Replenished by the warmth of my belief, 
One of my greatest spiritual gifts


For if you don't look for me
My energy, and moonlight, you will always miss

As you look back at me 
One lonely night

And reminisce while going through the five stages of grief

Of what could have been
With me

The secret watcher
Hidden
In The Great In-Between 

(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

Are we all mysteriously Sinful?

Title:

Are we all mysteriously
Sinful?

(A lone voice whispers)

In the beginning 

Did you secretly 
Walk like a curious
Enigmatic Charles Darwin

Looking
Whilst
Lost in Youth

Seeking The Meaning of Sin

To clandestine dark places where

Angels
Without harps 

Profusely lambast and
Sing

Searching
Through concealed ancient manuscript and treatises

Seduced by Mistresses and Masters

Of Seductions

By their ever-changing winds
And rhymes

And now 
Are you still covertly
Only understood 

By a select few

Riding your Pale Horse
Tempestuously

Through lost
Biographies of Old Beliefs

Always on the lookout for engagements

A means to sometimes
Circumvent dark
Carnal release

Or are you still drinking Cool-Aid

From the Matrix’s ever spinning
Propaganda's machine

As the Cosmic Serpent
Of your own Apocalypse

Approaches with such devious guile

Heralding a new divine invasion

Of your own United Nations

So you still dwell in
A new vision of Gilgamesh

Wallowing in previous dark memories of
Sins

Of old encounters and embraces

Of its sensuous
Flesh

Or are you a new lost Nikola Tesla

Lost in the folds of deep personal histories

Overwhelmed
With impropriety and greed

Still seemingly held in check

By fingerprints of
Memories Old Gods

But still always courageously

Praying silently to the skies

Trying to save
Your soul

Always praying someone
Hears you and your deeds and comes down 

To intercede

Copyright John Duffy
Form: Rhyme

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