Best Shem Poems
-- Just a bit of silliness --
"Baissez le rideau, la farce est jouee..."
---- Daumier
39 & 1/2 days had passed;
the rain had lessened.
Noah, grungy and grumpy,
paced the wet deck
like a caged Lion of Judah.
Reading the Odyssey by blubber-light,
Jonah, a free-thinker, cruised
in his whale below; he marveled,
captainishly, carefully pronouncing
the unfamiliar Greek, an uninvented
tongue he couldn't speak.
Ham, an adherent to all the dietary
restrictions, was relieved
at the journey's almost-close.
Consultation of the Holy Books
had proved he wasn't kosher
and, therefore, could not be served.
Still, Shem and Japhet eyed him oddly.
They had a lean and hungry look.
The wives, sensible lot,
cleaned the kennels, did the chores
and tried to keep an even keel
in the anachronistic mess.
They drifted onward,
tired of fishing fruitless waters,
doubtful now of being made
fishers of men.
All things considered, it was
a perfectly normal situation:
men were mystics
and women staid and sturdy workers.
And yet, Ararat, still beneath the waters,
may not have been the only futuristic
structure in this grey, flat
seascape.
Categories:
shem, bible, boat, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
“The Butcher’s Apron,” often called,
My countries flag, I am appalled,
For Union Jack, inspiring cloth,
Once doused the world in bloody froth
That’s not to say, it’s all been bad,
It did produce my mum and dad, and now
I’m here, produced by them; I produced
A son called Shem
And when we go to sad parades, the flag
Flies high, in restful glades, and though the
Apron’s always there, we’d like to think, the
Jack’s been fair.
Written for flag contest 15/7/15 Peter L Holmes (UK)
Categories:
shem, fun, patriotic, mum,
Form:
Verse
It seems it takes reams of paperwork to get things done nowadays.
You can become so snarled in red tape that it'll leave you in a daze!
I wonder how Noah would've coped with such onerous fiddle-faddle,
Had panels and boards been involved to design for him a simple paddle!
Did he have building codes and hordes of bureaucrats to appease,
Or pesky environmentalists hugging the gopherwood trees?
Was there an OSHA lurking about enforcing inane regulations?
Such balderdash would've added to his heap of frustrations!
Was an ASPCA "watchdog" there fretting about all the creatures,
Insisting that cages and stalls have the latest comfort features?
Was their a labor union hovering nigh demanding a living wage?
Such piffle would've launched Noah into a towering rage!
Had Noah heeded those who showered him with sneer and scorn,
Or had he drowned in seas of red tape to stifle his Godly bourne,
He might've been discouraged and cancelled the whole affair.
That could've spelled doom for humankind right then and there!
But Noah's Boss, that Master Architect superintending from Above,
Gave Noah the specifications and a not too gentle shove!
Noah, Japheth, Ham and Shem hustled and the Ark soon took shape.
'Twas built on schedule, with no cost overruns and no red tape!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(© All Rights Reserved)
Categories:
shem, funnyred, red,
Form:
Rhyme
Noah survived the flood with sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem.
Along with the animals of the earth, God spared them.
With floods, He vowed never again to do such a thing.
God made a covenant with Noah and his offspring:
“You and your sons shall populate the world as you go.
Look up into the clouds and you shall see My rainbow.
This is a sign the covenant is everlasting.
All creatures shall thrive, along with each human being.”
Noah’s grandson, firstborn of Ham, Canaan was his name.
He had to serve Shem and Japheth because he brought shame.
Ham also gave birth to Cush; who in turn brought Raamah.
Raamah extended the line with Dedan and Sheba.
Shem was fruitful producing many generations.
Arphaxad and Aram’s progeny would lead nations.
Among Japheth’s seven sons were Gomer and Javan
Their descendents also had produced many children.
Among Ham’s descendents was a king who defied God.
A mighty hunter and warrior, he was Nimrod.
His kingdom had contained land from Babylonia.
Moreover, it stretched as far south as Assyria.
His great cities included Calah and Nineveh.
They lived on land between the Euphrates and Tigris.
His people united and strong were making progress.
Nimrod proclaimed, “We have one language and great power.
Let us assemble and raise a very tall tower.
This ziggurat will provide a stairway to a star.
We are an ambitious people, and we can go far!”
A new great city appeared on the plain of Shinar.
With formidable walls constructed with bricks and tar.
God realized these persons were filling with contempt,
He wished to halt their foolhardy fallacious attempt.
Perplexing their language among them caused confusion.
They stopped construction and divided with diffusion.
God’s almighty power can never be defeated.
Therefore, the Tower Of Babel was not completed.
A ziggurat is a temple of Babylonian architecture resembling a pyramid. It begins
with either a square or a rectangular base. Additional stories with smaller floor
space create a terrace effect on each level.
Genesis Chapters 8-11
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Categories:
shem, religionlanguage, language,
Form:
Rhyme
The earth of five million was of one speech,
Build it up, higher and higher, undie,
Towers of dub man,
circumvent his plan,
Suddenly behold the man, throw it down,
Speak of Babel, people uncomfortable,
Confound and confuse, scatter, no matter,
Shem, Arphaxad, Salah and Eber, a river,
Suddenly Nebuchadnezzar, tongue teach,
The king of dreams, wise men taught to lie each,
'I know of certainty that ye would gain this time,
And you and me did drink Babylon's fine wine,
Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego burn,
It's not your turn,
It's not your turn, unlearn,
Eat grass, lift thine eyes, dominion, you earned,
People's nations, languages and value gauges,
O Belshazzar, Mine, Tekel and Peres, hand write,
Written to see sooth to say, another day,
Oh Babylonites, there is no hope for you,
That they in their wisdom, worship devils,
Babylon the great,Mother of harlots nine,
You think divine, you think divine, you lying,
The smoke of her burning, truth unlearning,
The great Babylon come,
The whore sittetch down.
I am Alpha and Omega, beginning and end,
Babylon was cast down,
Every face a frown,
A New heaven and new earth, no hunger and thirst,
He reigns now for ever,
Babylon has gone.
And with it the words of the Wizard London.
Categories:
shem, epic
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Gucci-Cabanna, Dreams, Drama's
doward spirals often inspire us
Defiant correspondances Deodorant
Radar Sattelite saop dope slip call it
Strict in my conduct Twist Just Trip
Shem don't forget about Noah
Miss Carolina Alabama Hammer New Mexican habbit
Hamock Comidians stand up Pearl Ceramic Tile
Shift Ivana I vain Ariata East LA California
Gilligan Skipper Aunte' Julianna
Previously who wrote that chapter
Signature series clarovoyance
Camoflauged like a sand dollar
Indulgent as the oragizer
Corruptions overtake me often
Subterfuge Sepmre Fidelis incorruptible Metals
Taken refuge under the shadow of The Almighty
!ONE} GOD is cloaked in Darkness
!TWO] Blue falls to the ungodly
!THREE} Red instigates images better left unmentioned
Bilingal undercovers interigations
Filibusters Capital Hill Critcal Underseiged
D.J. Damage disbelief often PE Public Education
Soccer Teams disbelievable Cheif of the Savages
DEbriefed Wicked Caskets
Lupe' Dupre' coupe' De' Fiet
Instunbal IRAQ Kuwait Chad
Brass Braced for betrayal
Categories:
shem, allah,
Form:
Choka
Man begat man and giants walked,
among mighty men a righteous dearth.
And to each took them wives
that they bear and multiply the earth
Their wickedness vexed The Lord,
“I will destroy man and fowl on the wing,
and a full end” it grieved Him so,
“of all beast and creeping thing”
The world was filled by violence
but Noah walked with God and was just,
and begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
and they all did in The Lord trust
“Go make an ark of gopher wood,
upon the earth I bring a flood of waters.
And with Noah make a covenant
in his seed, his sons and daughters”
“That behold wherein under heaven
everything with breath of life shall die.
Of two of every sort bring beast,
creeping thing and fowl of the sky”
For forty days and forty nights
upon the earth God caused it to rain.
And the waters greatly increased
till the fountains began to wane
When the earth was again dry
The Lord God spoke unto Noah saying
“go forth of the ark - bring forth
every living thing there laying”
Of three sons was the earth spread,
and Noah planted a vineyard to behold,
but of the wine had much to drink
and this Ham to his brothers told
When Noah awoke from his wine
he was in a wrath what Ham had done,
and said “a servant of servants shall
you to your brothers be my son”
So blessed he Shem, and Japheth,
that Ham dwell in the tents of Shem.
And all the days of Noah were
nine hundred and fifty years to them
Written: September 2010
Categories:
shem, bible, christian,
Form:
Narrative
Dumb it Down
Date: Mon, Jan 11 2016 at 8:06 AM
He Brew he Hebrew the Seed of Jews
Seasoned the Fruits Sinking in the Truth In Peace with Beetlejuice
Shadows of Noobs
I know the Darkness of the Moon
Revenge of the Fallen Strikes a Noon
I'm Looney like Looney toons on Tunes but I ain't a Toon
Twelve Tribes divided
Jacob to Issac
Israelite Hybrids
Zionist
Portraying the lost Children Blinded
Here's an Hieroglyphic
Noah to Ham Son of the Egyptians
Shem The Jews
Categories:
shem, bible, birth, black african
Form:
Free verse
A promised son to Eve to crush the enemy it was not Cain, Abel nor Seth another seed given
in the image likeness of Adam the Last though it was not Noah's his name means rest nor his
son's shem Ham or Jepeth A promised Son is given beyond the flood he will not destroy the
earth the same Abram also called out his name abraham even though a promise and a son
all nations blessed Isaac laid for sacrifice God provided an another Lamb it was not Isaac's
Israel nor his first born while in Egypt all sons bow to Joseph it looked as if he died and was
torn away but it was to be for another Son born in his day through Jesse root came seven
and David reigned over promised land it was not he the Son to come was from heaven a
Son given his name wonderful counselor mighty God the Everlasting Father prince of peace
surely you know his name though Solomon built wisest of men in the Kingdom like a child
there is one wiser in Israel Remember your King the Faithful God born among us the
suffering servant born to save his people from their sins the Lamb of God first and last your
Son first begotten of many brethren blessed be He that cometh in the name of the Lord Our
King Jesus is one Lord are God he is King Lord of lords and King of kings Our All in all the
Amen
Categories:
shem, faithson, god, god, son,
Form:
Epic
if the king of kings is here
yet unbeknown to we
a latter day odysseus
king of our kingdom free
i wonder if his queen of queens
is waiting for him where
her suitors dig their graves in such
a way as to declare
the trap that they have set for him
the one inside our minds
that makes the truth a spectre
so distorted that it blinds
the people of a world at war
with light and life and love
pity noah's wife was less
important than the dove
what would he say to ham and shem
young japheth wants to know
how would he call jerusalem
which way would he go
when there are three mothers
all claiming one small child
with telemachus in the streets
running hot and wild
and three gods in the temple
all arguing the point
with priests and politicians
for the power to anoint
so if you are a suitor
you'd do well to understand
it's just an ancient crossroad
with water close at hand
Categories:
shem, history, religion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Kneeling Satan
________________
Satan you are nothing
without mans assistance.
Finally genuflecting to Adam
it realizes.
Mohammedan Faces the Megalith
_____________________________
The choice of the free market:
bail it out,
this inherent corruption,
as it dies
has it not 'spoke'?
Mohammedan questions why the megalith is needed when it is an enigma to those of it...
Every Mohammedan is positive,
positive...
Allah will see it through.
Let the great satan intoxicate without license;
drinking in moderation;
knowing you wont make it:
Excess consumerism
to save\preserve.
Contemplate the self-critique limited in your responsibility,
as if saying: come satan consume me
--let me consume you.
Enjoying Liberty with Ha-Shem
___________________________
Liberty,
Ha-Shem.
The Jew can never taste it,
but the goyim,
at least those of ethical-monotheism
will have it with you
Ha-Shem.
© S. Wesley Mcgranor
2002
Categories:
shem, allah,
Form:
Free verse
Shem
Saw
Spirit
Deep darkness
And light all fighting
To know how the cosmos was made
To know our hope in our liberation in the end
This gnosis was given by Derdekeas, who is Christ the son of Light, for those lost
Inspired by the Gnostic text The Paraphrase of Shem
Categories:
shem, conflict, creation, freedom, hope,
Form:
Fibonacci
Into The Fire I Go to wield Jewels Out The Winepress
from Drudges to Diadems,
from Valleys of Darkness to Bethlehem
Upright, Scintillating like Shem in Jerusalem
Into Ethers of Brahma where the Sun Shines
Sublime, these Crowns and Feathers of Light
Blazing Dross out the Matrix to forge the Empyrean
and bring Heaven to Earth, to Illuminate like Atlanteans
Ever-Onward, Steadfast in Flight
to Smash the Veil and Crush the Crux of Night,
So Glorious, Star Bound I enter the Ethereal Stage
Vanquishing Ignorance while I play Ukelele
Golden Harps sound off as I Breach realms beyond the Wild Pendulum
Into The Fire I Go, The Eternal Serum
Categories:
shem, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
O, behold the man, by the old sea
He closes his brown eyes, feeling free
Dancing to the wind, taunting the bee
He, who loves nature, although, carefree
Nevertheless, wants you all to see
Him, who hates watching gray clouds hide the bright sky
Where falcons, soaring high, relentlessly
Against the gusting wind, they’ve freedom to fly
Reveling in fleeting days, across the
Virulent sea, where he spends time
Lulling, unmindful of them
The naked ladies of Shem
On shoreline rocks, weaving blue rhyme
For he does not like to see those eyes, tinted
With hues of withered red roses on the ground
‘Cos there is no more beauty, in them, when dead
Or, in the eyes, when full of sadness, the sound
Of a unkempt sea, where its breath
Streaking his soul, without regret
Filled with un-prophetic news
That he, too, wished to fly, to set
Wings to where he won’t have to fret
‘Bout not wanting to peruse…
The whippersnapper, who n’er wanted to cry
He, the poet, who asked the birds how to fly
He, the man, by the old sea, hurt by heart’s lie
That, in forms, caused him to unveil
Whence readers can feel, the detail
Whether, penned in a single verse
Or, in a freestyle, like free-verse
Whether, it’s written in sonnet
Or, perhaps, in a rhymed couplet
Between lines, untangle his thought
And you’ll see me, the life, I fought
Categories:
shem, confusion, life, nature, on
Form:
Rhyme
On the beach in Sandusky,
a woman collapsed to retire her body
at the edge of Lake Erie, under
the awning of a cerulean sky. The waves
reached out to heal her because I was never that kind.
She will be more useful at her resurrection
after sleep closed her lazy brown eyes.
The world had left her, I was gone 4 steps,
but my conscience ... My heart walked
through shrubs and razor bumps.
Not that I want to. I was seduced
by this cause of injury to our children. It was enough
for the world to see via social media. So, June 15th, 2009,
I became Shem and Japheth; I took a towel,
laid it across my children's shoulders,
telling them to walk leeward
and hide their mother's nakedness.
Categories:
shem, summer,
Form:
Free verse