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Cheval Poems - Poems about Cheval


Premium Member Think Spy Michael Cheval
Behind my eyes lies freshwater Memory gets lost in the blue I don't look, but I'm aware of your beauty Willing to forget all for you To be seen, held in your gaze I'm conditioned to react it's true Turned on all my receptors Close proximity all you needed to do Coral lays dead like my brain cells Only yesterday it...

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Categories: cheval, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Twelfth Caprice Of Casanova By Michael Cheval
you never have to chop me open my mind/thoughts splay out readily some version of knowing me, gifted then on and off go gloves/mask til there's no truth or fight left nothing lines up/we're all shouting ...

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Categories: cheval, art,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member The Tempest, Painting by Michael Cheval
You pull me from the depths of forevers of thought elegantly twirled, though evidently caught shaped by the vortex, virtuoso of pain fluctuating truths from half flailing to half slain the mirror of water I'd rather not see if I peer in I see reflections of me contorting with torment unnecessarily ...

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Categories: cheval, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Michael Cheval - Song of a Journey
Steel should slice through rust The stringing should slice the fingers There's no damage to either Despite the tension Everything is quite perfect I'm the balance, not the weight There is no sign of drag - firmly stationed Eyes stay down, unfought serenity As in this moment there is beauty Fingertips to taut steel Energy exchanged for music Music exchanged for emotion Emotion stilled, somehow The strength...

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Categories: cheval, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Discord of Analogy, Michael Cheval, 2014
the delight is in the disregard I'm here in this space but it's another world, a world away where creativity flows from my fingers and I sit with straight spine utterly absorbed not falling down but oh God no ...

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Categories: cheval, anxiety,
Form: Ekphrasis



Cheval Blanc
I saw a beer tap called Cheval Blanc while sitting in a tavern in Quebec City. Cheval Blanc. It was the most heroic, and poetic, and majestic, and powerful name I’d heard in a while. Cheval Blanc. I liked the marriage of the sound of the v and the l and I liked the finality of the word "Blanc." Right at that moment, Cheval Blanc-...

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Categories: cheval, allegory, august, trust, truth,
Form: Blank verse
The Cheval Dressing Mirror
Looking into the cedar cheval dressing mirror the aroma of wood filling the air Fingers running across the sleek surface of glass wondering if other worlds exist behind the reflection Then a funny thought drifted through my mind as I pondered on the engraved symbols upon the frame What if I was able to read these symbols aloud? would I be-able...

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Categories: cheval, fantasy
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things