Best Salome Poems

The Dance of Salome
Herod bellowed out the night's festive orders..
"Bring the torches, bring the tables..
more wine, that we may rejoice,  
for tonight we revel...

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Sexy dancing

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The Beheading of John the Baptist

Inside a dungeon, a man is shackled;
Where instruments are employed to inflict
Pain on him while being interrogated;
To confess to crimes,...

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How I would like to devour you whole. 
When I see you dancing around that pole,
you excite me to the extremes. 
You're the kind of...

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The lavender clouds, lowered, like a fluffy blanket
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Salome just loved gingerbread
But Herod misheard what she said
Who wants a dead head
To bounce in their bed?
So she dashed to the John instead


*Title inspired by...

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At the last supper He declared,
"One of you is my betrayer".
They questioned Him and each  denied
Then all joined in song and prayer.
Mount Olive was...

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The earth greets me shrouded in mystery
All of her charms veiled to my sight.
Then slowly,tantalisingly
Swirling in seductive Salome dance
She offers herself glimpse by glimpse.
Until once...

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I stood hidden in the shadows, watching
as Salome, clad in flowing veils, gyrated
to the music, exuding sensual richness.
Herod leered drunkenly at her vibrant body.
Overcome by...

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The time when Juno excruciated was 
Due to Salome against the Theban blood,
As many times was shown to be the cause,

Atamante became so insane and...

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Sunrise Surprise, An Easter Story

Hi. My name is Mary Magdalene, a close friend and follower of Jesus.
My friends, Salome, Joanna, the other Mary, and I...

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My daughter,
with Oppositionally Defiant Chaotic Disorder,
has taught me a role-play therapy,
in which we Both-And build a back-and-forth story,
she plays me,
more or less,
and I play her
Mulatta...

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The Praise Dancers…
In stilled silent
space 
between garnished tables,
the word exploded:  
gyrating motion 
spilled out
here and there;
yet
bare clapping hands
and naked feet
made 
no sound.

Staccato movements 
shot...

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Declaration:
I Samson Josephat  Manyala,
The author of 
"Salome The Beautiful Princess",
With a subtitle
"A dedication To The US Armed Forces",
An anthology live online today,
Kindle Edition,
With any...

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“fantôme du noir chevalier”



whither doth thee cometh from?
Strange voice that I see
Coldness of ire burns 
the skin beneath sheets
paper white guise
black ink heart bleeding within...

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