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Herodias Poems - Poems about Herodias

Herodias Poems - Examples of all types of poems about herodias to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for herodias.

Off With His Head
...Herodias with a grudge requested to Herod that John be arrested “To bed your brother's wife to enhance your sex life is against the law,” he'd suggested. When Herod had drunk a bottl......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, bible, death, gospel,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member The Winds of Change In Chamber of the Dead
...Herod put John the Baptist in prison. He was having an adulterous affair with Herodias, his brother Phillip’s wife, and John was saying, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” On Herod’s birthday, H......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, bible, dance, death,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Dance of Salome
...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 i......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, dance, daughter, moon, mother
Form: Narrative
Either Or
... Two choices were made on two birthdays One chose the rope, the other chose the blade Wickedness was full frontally displayed, lying vanity's rear end led the parade Kill, kill again the ma......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, bible, christian, death, evil,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Herodias the Evil Woman - Matthew 14: 1-12
...John the Baptist was truly God's man but Herod the tetrarch put him in jail because of his evil wife Herodias who sought always on John's trail John was bold in declaring the truth that Herodi......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, bible, evil, woman,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Make Love To Me In That Ancient Place
...The Bedouins, bequeathed with the sacred beauty of paradise harsh, trusted guardians of jealous gorges and gifted groves lead me from the Wadi Musa to the humble ingress of Petra, saying with thri......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, adventure, desire, history, love,
Form: Epic
Herods Debt
...Herod’s Debt Ive marked ye, clown! out of tha pack. Took the solitary road be bold I whispered..... “Would not a score of weasels, beg a rotten tooth, from ya gape?” So, Herod ye stand wat......Read the rest...
Categories: herodias, death,
Form: ABC

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