The Call To Venus Poem by John Duffy

The Call to Venus

(A lone voice whispers as a ceremony begins)

Candles lit
In brazier pit

Like a reborn Prospero

Music playing
As offerings

Are lit

To summon the universe
And all who goes

To step in and commit

Guardians in
The Great In-Between

Guard us
And all our kin

From all unseen
Who flows

White lights
Bound
Around our homes

To guard against ghouls
From loosened tombs

Floating around like red balloons

We pray tonight
For astral protection
In all our rooms

As
Candles lit
In brazier pits

Burn

With
Music playing

As sandalwood offerings
And Christmas ferns

Are used as keys
Of devotional angelic magic

To turn away

All who conspire
And drink from the Devil's Urn

As we call to you
Venus
For protection

As the Great Wheel
Turns

So
Come our sceptre-bearer of harmony

And love to cope

Do ut de
Dum vivo
Repleti spe

(‘I give that you may give.
As long as I live. Filled with hope.)

(C)
Copyright John Duffy