#occult
(A sweet voice from The Seventies, sings. Can you hear him?)
Hey... Turn those lights down low
Come a little closer, baby
Nice and slow
Let's dance together
On our own dance floor
Hold me in your arms tonight
And love me a little more
Move and sway
To the music playing soft
Like a dream that's floating by
And carrying us off
Touch me gently
Let that sweet fire start
Burning through the night
In this heart full of longing
Turn those lights down low
Don't let this feeling go
Hold me close and never let me go
Turn those lights down low
Baby, nice and slow
Tonight we're lost in the glow
Turn the lights down low
Let's slow dance across the floor
Before we kiss
Like we've never kissed before
Turn the lights down low
Move a little closer still
For a love like this
Gives my heart such a thrill
And while the music plays
We'll hold each other tight
Praying this love is real
As we dance into the night
Move in closer
In every little way
Let's forget tomorrow
And live for this moment today
Time stands still
As the record softly spins
One of Teddy's sweet love songs
And the magic begins
Turn the lights down low
Let's slow dance across the floor
Before we kiss
Like we've never kissed before
Turn the lights down low
Move a little closer still
For a love like this
Can only end in bliss
Can only end in bliss
Can only end in bliss
Tonight
In bliss
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Copyright John Duffy
3d ago
May 31, 2026 at 2:42 AM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
Hey you...
It's been a long, long road
Since I walked away
When it was getting real
And I never found the words to say
Hey you
I know I left when it was getting real
And now I finally understand
Exactly how you feel
I've spent some lonely nights
Walking roads I thought I'd own
But every mile I traveled
Just brought me back alone
And the rain keeps falling
On the mistakes I've made
Some memories fade away
But yours refuse to fade
I know I left when it was getting real
And now I know
How you feel
What was ours
Can never be the same
But while we're standing here
Calling each other's name
Maybe time can heal
What pride tore apart
Maybe we can start again
Right where we are
And though the seasons change
Your love still grows in me
Like an old oak tree
By a river running free
We were young
And chasing dreams we couldn't hold
I thought freedom meant leaving
Now freedom just feels cold
The echoes of your laughter
Still linger in these halls
And every little memory
Still hangs upon these walls
If forgiveness has a doorway
I'm standing at the frame
Not asking for forever
Just hoping for your name
I know I left when it was getting real
And now I know
How you feel
What was ours
Can never be the same
But while we're standing here
Calling each other's name
Maybe time can heal
What pride tore apart
Maybe we can start again
Right where we are
And though the seasons change
Your love still grows in me
Like an old oak tree
By a river running free
If tomorrow never brings us
Back to where we used to be
I'll still thank Heaven
For the love you gave to me
And if friendship is the only road
That's left for us to take
I'll walk it with a grateful heart
For old time's sake
I know I left when it was getting real
And now I know
How you feel
What will be
Will be
That's plain to see
But your love tree
Still grows in me
And every branch reminds me
Of what we used to be
Your love tree
Still grows in me
Hey you
I finally know
How you feel
I know I left
When it was getting real
And now I know
How you feel
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
4d ago
May 30, 2026 at 1:10 AM UTC
Senryu
Title.
Relationships
At the very core
Is yearning to be cherished
Our endless desire
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Copyright John Duffy
A poem exploring the fundamental human need for affection, validation, and emotional connection within relationships.
Universal Truth:
Line 1.
Vulnerability is the foundation of intimacy.
Human Condition:
Line 2.
The pursuit of love is an infinite, lifelong journey.
Emotional Core:
Line 3.
Strip away conflict, and only the need for belonging remains.
May 25
May 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM UTC
Sometimes, all you can do is smile as the world turns. As your old world burns.
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Copyright John Duffy
Sometimes, a smile is the only way to find your footing when everything around you changes. It represents acceptance, resilience, and the quiet understanding that an ending is also a beginning.
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM UTC
Do you believe in spirit guides?
An expression of a deep, unwavering devotion to a higher spiritual power.
Through all of life's experiences.
Then read on as it culminates in a declaration of complete, unified oneness.
An intimate and chant-like expression, characterized by a stream-of-consciousness flow, and a focus on enduring, spiritual connection.
Linked to psychological reflection on self-integration.
Title.
The Spirit Guide.
(A lone voice whispers)
I see you.
You know.
I follow you everywhere.
You go.
Under the moon or sun.
Through the rain and snow.
The laughter and pain.
For we are one.
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Copyright John Duffy
May 12
May 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM UTC
(Story arc - From family, friendships, and work.)
Are you underrated
Will you embrace so much more
Leave and be treasured
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Copyright John Duffy
Senryu are three-line, unrhymed poems (17 syllables in 5-7-5) focusing on human nature, irony, and humor rather than nature.
May 9
May 9, 2026 at 8:48 PM UTC
Aim for intriguing
Mundane is for shell creatures
Explore Develop
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Copyright John Duffy
Senryu are three-line, unrhymed poems (17 syllables in 5-7-5) focusing on human nature, irony, and humor rather than nature.
May 7
May 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM UTC
Title.
Relationships.
Eternally young
What we leave are memories
To be collected
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Copyright John Duffy
Senryu are three-line, unrhymed poems (17 syllables in 5-7-5) focusing on human nature, irony, and humor rather than nature.
May 6
May 6, 2026 at 8:22 PM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
Stranded forever
Everywhere I seem to go
I never knew heartbreak
Could feel this cold
We used to rule our world
Like kings and queens in gold
Laughin’ in the spotlight
With a love we thought would hold
Now the silence got a voice
And it’s calling out your name
Every memory hits different
Now you’re just a flame
(Stranded… stranded…)
Everywhere I go
(Stranded… stranded…)
Missing you the most
I’m stranded forever
Everywhere I go
Now I know heartbreak
Like summer misses the snow
We were fire together
Now I’m out in the cold
Yeah I know heartbreak
Like summer misses the snow
We once sat smiling
So proud to be seen
Living like a movie
Every moment a dream
Now the crown feels heavy
And the throne’s just a ghost
All the love we carried
Is what I miss the most
If I could turn back time
I’d hold you a little more
Now I’m dancing with your shadow
On an empty floor
Everywhere I go
(Stranded… stranded…)
Baby don’t you know
I’m stranded forever
Everywhere I go
Now I know heartbreak
Like summer misses the snow
We were fire together
Now I’m out in the cold
Yeah I know heartbreak
Like summer misses the snow
Maybe love don’t die
Maybe it just fades
Leaves a little light
In the mess we made
And if I find my way
Through the afterglow
I’ll carry your warmth
Even in the snow
I was stranded forever
But I’m learning to grow
Yeah I know heartbreak
Still I won’t let it own my soul
We were fire together
That’s a truth I’ll hold
Even in heartbreak
I found gold in the cold
Found gold in the cold
(Stranded… no more…)
Everywhere I go…
There’s a piece of you…
I’ll always hold…
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
May 5
May 5, 2026 at 6:41 AM UTC
Senryu
Morality
Like birds on a wire
Praying to embrace some light
Will we watch and learn
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Copyright John Duffy
Senryu are 3-line, unrhymed Japanese poems (often 5-7-5 syllables) focusing on human nature, irony, and humor, rather than nature. Known as "human haiku," they offer witty, sometimes cynical snapshots of daily life and human flaws.
May 4
May 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM UTC
Senryu
Lost in the chaos
It was never just living
It was about you
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Copyright John Duffy
Senryu are 3-line, unrhymed Japanese poems (often 5-7-5 syllables) focusing on human nature, irony, and humor, rather than nature.
Known as "human haiku," they offer witty, sometimes cynical snapshots of daily life and human flaws.
May 3
May 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM UTC
(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
May 2
May 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
Some say
To love and lose
Is still better
To have not heard its love song
Filled with rhythm and blues
And that's why my lost love
I'll always love you
For you once lit a fuse
So beautifully
But fire don’t last forever
When it burns too deep in me
Love don’t fade away
Even when it breaks in two
Time can’t steal the flame
That still leads me back to you
And that's why I'll always treasure
Its heart shaped tattoo
Even if the ink runs faded
Baby, I still feel you
'Cause to me
You'll never ever be old news
No… you’ll never be old news
We danced
Through highs and lows
Like a record spinning stories
Only broken lovers know
Yeah, we lost the melody
But I still hum our tune
Maybe love ain't perfect
But it leaves a mark that stays
And every scar you gave me
Lights a brighter kind of way
Love don’t fade away
Even when it breaks in two
Time can’t steal the flame
That still leads me back to you
And that's why I'll always treasure
Its heart shaped tattoo
Even if the ink runs faded
Baby, I still feel you
'Cause to me
You'll never ever be old news
No… you’ll never be old news
Maybe we were never meant to stay
But you taught my heart how to feel this way
And even if you're gone
Your love made me strong
Now I can love again
Carry on
And that's why I'll always treasure
Its heart shaped tattoo
Not a mark of something broken
But a love I made it through
'Cause to me
You'll never ever be old news
No… you’ll never be old news
You were my rhythm…
Now I found my blues turn gold
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Apr 29
Apr 29, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC
Oh ** ** what have we here, deary?
A trembling soul, a wish so weary.
You’ve come to strike a clever deal,
To bend the grave, to break the seal.
You clutch your sorrow, cold and tight,
And beg me steal them from the night.
Oh ** ** such fragile pleas—
You think death yields to whims like these?
Magic, deary, always takes,
It never gives without mistakes.
Each thread you pull, each fate you spin,
Demands a price beneath the skin.
Oh ** ** now listen clear,
For truth is sharper than your fear:
A life for life, the balance sworn,
One must fade for one reborn.
You want their breath, their voice, their name?
Then something else must feed the flame.
Oh deary… don’t pretend surprise,
You knew all magic has its price.
So tell me, deary… what will pay?
What soul will fade so theirs may stay?
Your beating heart? Your lover’s breath?
All roads you choose still walk through death.
Oh ** ** I see it now—
That hesitation in your vow.
Grief makes you bold, but not for long,
Not when the cost is set in song.
Oh deary, deary… sign it true,
And I will do as you would do.
But first the price is rendered due—
The cost is dreary…
But don’t weep, deary.
Apr 17
Apr 17, 2026 at 2:14 PM UTC
Birthdays come, and birthdays go.
As you get older.
Falling quickly like white snow.
But it's always great to get a nice hello.
From those you remember, and who you gladly still know.
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Apr 14
Apr 14, 2026 at 5:06 AM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
Hey
I carefully looked through all our old memories together
Deep into the longest of nights
Those treasured ones
Once written so sweetly and kept on my iPhone
As I stared into that so familiar burning fireplace
Thinking of you all alone
And sent sweet blessings
Your way to embrace
With each lit ember
That reminded me
Of your beautiful face
So, look up into your night's sky
Today
Wherever you are
And as murmurations of Starlings
Begin to swoop and play
I know you're feeling old emotions
That you still hear way down
In your heart's deep ocean
And though our old life has expired and you now feel so tired
With my gift of second sight
I can see
An incredible one will soon appear ahead
For your invitation to a new form of loving happiness
Burns like a white summoning candle
And as you step into that invitations magic circle
At midnight
With no hesitation or rehearsal
A familiar feeling will soon begin
That you can handle
Deep within
Of twin souls intertwined together forever
Again
Through friendship
To relieve that aching pain
Bestowed by a divine power
Of why we were separated by the devastating
Enchantment of the Leviathan Hour
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Copyright John Duffy
Apr 13
Apr 13, 2026 at 8:13 AM UTC
Poetry is the gateway into once-unexplored realms
Where the soul can rise or fall
When someone follows its call
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Copyright John Duffy
Apr 7
Apr 7, 2026 at 8:02 PM UTC
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Mar 29
Mar 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM UTC
the world
continues to exist - the quintessence
of alchemists, slightly tarnished - in spite
of the unceasing ridicule
upon your face
look closely
at the tips of your fingers:
their qualities
should not be taken
too seriously
the left hand
begins to swing
back and forth, and sparks flew
the right, connected
by some invisible link,
exerts a powerful attraction,
describing a larger and larger circle
the flame, licking the air,
gave back vague impressions:
a very dark image, the prickle
at the base of your neck
when the wind dies
under the light of the moon
Mar 24
Mar 24, 2026 at 11:08 PM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
Will you lift up your veil and pray for the innocent faces of those starving and feeling unclean? The people displaced by those hidden, unseen?
Or the dark souls in plain sight who covet total power over every scene?
If so, follow me.
For as a wise man once said.
A man will meet you carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goes in."
Or will you, exhausted and tired?
Just go about your business in abject silence, as they carry on their wickedness with total impunity and such violence?
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Copyright John Duffy
The Age of Aquarius is symbolised by the "water-bearer," often associated with pouring out knowledge, truth, and spiritual wisdom to humanity.
The veil lifting reflects that old paradigms are crumbling and a new earth is slowly emerging—not through force, but through frequency.
The quote is biblical refering to a transition point, guiding disciples from the old covenant to the new, often seen as a precursor to a new era of spiritual awareness.
Just look at the release of recent files. What was once done in secret behind a curtain of secrecy is coming into the light of judgment.
Have you lifted yours yet?
I hope so.
Salute.
Feb 18
Feb 18, 2026 at 3:29 AM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
In the twenty-first century, is this a frightening thing to read or see?
The abuse of all forms of humanity by such cruel people.
Bound by such evil pagan rituals. Linked to dark, insidious acts of depravity.
And being left with the silent question?
Will any God put us out of our misery, and punish those responsible with swift justice for so many unknown casualties?
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Copyright John Duffy
Feb 18
Feb 18, 2026 at 3:27 AM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
In the twenty-first century, is this a frightening thing to read or see?
The abuse of all forms of humanity by such cruel people.
Bound by such evil pagan rituals. Linked to dark, insidious acts of depravity.
And being left with the silent question?
Will any God put us out of our misery, and punish those responsible with swift justice for so many unknown casualties?
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Feb 16
Feb 16, 2026 at 11:14 AM UTC
(A lone voice whispers)
In the deepest of my wildest lucid dreams, she always comes my way. And as the waking world dims, her shadow appears like a familiar shade. Slowly walking in.
Like a haunting love song, my soul's only angel over my guarded bed. I can't erase.
Opening a secret portal above where I lie to another realm where we can play. Telling me to take her hand, so we can slip away through its black gates.
No more worn or tired but too brave to consiouness retire.
We always fly as two, entwined into the grey smoke and translucent blue. And as always, while we fly, she always whispers, "Do you love me as much as I love you?"
And I always answer like the wild chancer I am.
"As much as Adam loved Eve, for in me do believe as we fly. The king and You, his queen, into the dark rift of The Great In-Between.
As watching angels sing as we are seen.
Oh rejoice! They have returned. The two once more reunited until dawn's new light.
The white feather and the flame. Praise be their names.
Oh, rejoice. Praise be they return tomorrow night.
Praise be. Oh, rejoice."
And so we fly into the smoky halls of the Greatest of Games. Spiritual lovers forever entwined until the day we die.
The White Feather and the Flame.
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Feb 16
Feb 16, 2026 at 2:27 AM UTC