Cheryl Renaud Poems

Enclosed again. When night rises like
a dark staircase.
and the waters surround like apparitional fingers.
a gentle invasion. Mighty sepulcher;
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Your consciousness abides in me
That which rouses in the night
A choral of yearning from within a sea
The way your eyes shine in noble heights
...

my piano is silent
it is time to put the top down

there are faces that part
...

At this time
I was making love
to my baby
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I embrace my only day
which is night and welcome
my place in the stars. The heavens
in its certainty, like your arms:
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it takes one particular event
to become
then to break
like hands that molded you
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It's called a whimper-
that dryness lining the concerted
folds of your smile
almost like a disruption
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what happened here
is a prayer unheard destination
once blue, born of whispers
a sigh between blades of grass
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I walk inside you
like the soul night
Blessed and charred,
I sleep awake
...

Another day takes
place in the form
of a fountain drink
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