STORM DUNCAN
poems of the storm
As I come into this world
I leave
A scream
Breath
Do you hear me
STORM DUNCAN
poems of the storm
As I come into this world
I leave
A scream
Breath
Do you hear me
Your light whispered
To me
The sound of longevity
Beating time, heart racing
Yes, I answered
your refrain call
Two Two
One
And we went
to that place
Where your light whispered
Until we met.
A lonely rain. A sad murmur.
I danced alone
Imagining you.
Happiness suspended
Until you rendered it complete.
I kiss now, with my eyes open
Drinking the sight of you.
Drop by drop
Always thirsty.
Delights of love
Without reservation.
You open me
Petal by petal.
My hands run through your hair
While you sleep.
My subtle influence
on your dreams.
A moon borrowing its
Light from the sun.
Two souls one.
Pure. delicious. Poetic.
A foretaste of Elysium
In our personal garden.
Since I met you.
Love is the Dancer
(Published in “Love Letters to Ukraine”)
I am but an old puppet master
Displaced actor severed from man grip
My vision dimmed still I catch a glance
Of your dance untethered from this lust
Toe by toe both feet lift each soul free
The gravity now your driving force
Beauty exploding without control
In this new role you find yourself cast
Some silent partnership with held rage
Cross this stage I used to call my own
Yet even here in my certain bed
Body stead with time’s humble markings
I lie and still dream of you below
Me to bestow the string from my hands
But each tug only pulls past glory
My great story no longer takes hold
With last sleep grasping my body tight
Start light slowly fading from my face
It was I who lost to love’s answer
And the dancer to which I was tied
This broken string
Once a thing
A little knot
That always fought
Bound so tight
Two hearts flight
Holding together
Our loves feather
Things once right
Sad hearts fight
Smiles dip
Speed the slip
All that past
Undone at last
Why not
Why knot
Last embrace
Just in case
I found a pebble on the beach
I don't know how it got that way
Jagged edges and smooth sides
Nor why it caught my eye
I launched at the site of her
For that moment, she became me.
Orbiting heart and mind
Invisible gravity kept me circling.
Simultaneously satisfying
And dissatisfying.
Unable to get closer
Or escape
An infinite spiral of a silent force
Your light whispered
To me
The sound of longevity
Beating time, heart racing
Yes, I answered
your refrain call
Two Two
One
And we went
to that place
Where your light whispered
Until we met.
A lonely rain. A sad murmur.
I danced alone
Imagining you.
Happiness suspended
Until you rendered it complete.
I kiss now, with my eyes open
Drinking the sight of you.
Drop by drop
Always thirsty.
Delights of love
Without reservation.
You open me
Petal by petal.
My hands run through your hair
While you sleep.
My subtle influence
on your dreams.
A moon borrowing its
Light from the sun.
Two souls one.
Pure. delicious. Poetic.
A foretaste of Elysium
In our personal garden.
Since I met you.
Love is the Dancer
(Published in “Love Letters to Ukraine”)
I am but an old puppet master
Displaced actor severed from man grip
My vision dimmed still I catch a glance
Of your dance untethered from this lust
Toe by toe both feet lift each soul free
The gravity now your driving force
Beauty exploding without control
In this new role you find yourself cast
Some silent partnership with held rage
Cross this stage I used to call my own
Yet even here in my certain bed
Body stead with time’s humble markings
I lie and still dream of you below
Me to bestow the string from my hands
But each tug only pulls past glory
My great story no longer takes hold
With last sleep grasping my body tight
Start light slowly fading from my face
It was I who lost to love’s answer
And the dancer to which I was tied
This broken string
Once a thing
A little knot
That always fought
Bound so tight
Two hearts flight
Holding together
Our loves feather
Things once right
Sad hearts fight
Smiles dip
Speed the slip
All that past
Undone at last
Why not
Why knot
Last embrace
Just in case
I found a pebble on the beach
I don't know how it got that way
Jagged edges and smooth sides
Nor why it caught my eye
I launched at the site of her
For that moment, she became me.
Orbiting heart and mind
Invisible gravity kept me circling.
Simultaneously satisfying
And dissatisfying.
Unable to get closer
Or escape
An infinite spiral of a silent force
I love you more than whispers love silence
She built her temples on the inside
It didn't feel dark until light was introduced
He hid his intelligence behind others opinions
It
can
be
both
Death becomes us all
I love you more than whispers love silence
She built her temples on the inside
It didn't feel dark until light was introduced
He hid his intelligence behind others opinions
It
can
be
both
Death becomes us all
I love you more than whispers love silence
She built her temples on the inside
It didn't feel dark until light was introduced
He hid his intelligence behind others opinions
It
can
be
both
Death becomes us all