Long Duffy Poems

Channelling a King 

(A regal voice whispers)

Oh Here
She Comes

Oh Here
She Comes

Oh Blessed Be
Oh Blessed be

Tonight the Goddess of Fertility and Motherhood

Appears on her white charger

To enchant and tempt all
Who wishes to follow her

To her Faeryland

Ashera
The...

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(A lone voice writes)

Some whisper and will
In secret occult circles 

About these sad days of 2025

That Humanity will fall into unruly petulant desire

Consumed and devoured by a blazing war lit infectious fire 

But what happens...

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The Ballad of the Lucky Man

She visited me at 15

Like an untasted maelstrom of tempestuous emotions

She whispered like a midnight seductress

So mysterious and so enchanting

She stole my youth away

She dissolved my loneliness
And we were as...

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(A lone voice whispers)


Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet.



Within this clearing, sheltered from Storms



Inside this sacred sanctuary, within this journey



A place beyond the...

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The Midnight Visitor. 

(A lone voice whispers)

I stood over her luscious form
Bathed by the cool glare of the Crying moon as 

The Ancient Mother pretended to sleep but watched as she slept

Listened to her slow...

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A dash of dark poetry.

(A darkened soul sings to the watching night sky)

All hail to The Lost Tribe of the Shadow People of The Obsidian Dust

The life thieves like Lazarus 

Who hides in the Grey...

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(A lone voice whispers)

 I can still subliminally feel 
All those sad fears

Rhythmically swirling like sharpened kitchen knives
Within all your world crazy choices

Which cuts me so deep
Like cold Tamahagane steel

Above all this new
Life's 
Now old...

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Jason Voorhees was reborn as Alex Duffy
The psycho with a pen, who will turn the most beautiful ballad ugly
I’ll make Freddy Krueger sick from the horror and the gore
Make Michael Myers cry in the corner...

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(A lone voice whispers)


As we stroll this Long Walk together
On Boxing Day

Someone's prayer reached out through the Ether and asked me

Hey
Are we all silently walking in a spiritual sense

Do some like me walk blindly...

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(A lone voice whispers)


Have you worn one of those old red coats yet

The one given by one of the invisible Riders in the silent night

The Msula

Who knows when your libido's getting wet
For the first time...

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 It's the weekend.


So here's a brief distraction for those needing something to read and absorb.

Salute.



Q:



What made you write poetry?



Was it an unconscious calling?



A need or just a natural progression of self-expression?



Or maybe even the...

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Family pets play such an important role in the human experience. 

For love, friendship, security and companionship. 


But since they live such short lives, do you believe they live just beyond The Rainbow Bridge? 


Title:...

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(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...

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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...

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Foundation of the piece.


Is life just a purging of the soul and to ascend to a higher plane of existence,

do you have to let go of everything and everybody you once loved or knew? 

To...

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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...

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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...

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(A lone old male voice whispers to his loyal dog)

She came at midnight
Last night
You know


As the fireflies outside in our winter garden
Glowed

In a red dress of moving red lips that whispered of new dreams

Knocking like...

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The Monologue of Saul



(A lone voice whispers)



Do people 
Maybe even you 

Who have ever been broken in two 
By love

Sometimes sit wondering 
What was I thinking of

Was I seduced by a dark dream from those...

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Foundation.

Does writing letters help purge negative emotional feelings after a breakup?

Title:
Catharsis 

(A man writes a letter to put with many others. He writes one each month to try to calm his mind, regarding breakup advice...

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Remember me
Your beloved mother

In the low hours

Whenever you are feeling weak 
And have lowered
Your powerful barriers

For it's then I can only be truly seen

Remember me
As that tsunami of furious fire

That once reenergized you
In dark years

When...

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Hakim. The Gatekeeper from Esagila.

(A lone voice whispers)

In ancient Babylon, 

I once stood alone and mixed fire
Iron and clay 

All day 

Creating a spell
To entice my only light to come my way 

Sent merchandise of...

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(A lone voice whispers)

What a year to be alive to see poetry still thrives

Want some new readers?

Well, I asked this once when I was institutionalised

Before in The Great In-Between 
I was baptised to be non...

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Are you a follower of trying to be Sagacious?

(A lone voice whispers)

Here's to you

The readers, writers and poets in whatever field

Always remember
Seeking further knowledge is a gift

It's how we all grow in whatever we do

So...

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You don't see what I see.

You don't feel what I feel.

The truth is quite evident,

It's not concealed. The

Burdens you have are

Not light. Your own battles

You're trying to fight. You

Will be brutalized until you

Won't make a...

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