Long 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 in kindred friendship."
Herod strolled onto the terrace, nearly stumbled in...

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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 as I inductively feel her
in my RightBrain resonant positives 
and...

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She enters the room, sipping blood red wine,
             Work of art, all competition fades, outshined,
        ...

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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 among my songs
So genius  written
And generously offered to U.S.A,
In...

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"Bring Me Wine,Myrrh and My Sweetheart Daughter Anabella,
My Little Anabella Loves To Listen To The Voice Of Salome,Her Lyre and Her 
Happy Serenade..
Tell My Scribes To Be Fast About Compiling The Exploits Of Their King...

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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 the next stop
They could see He was distressed,
But they fell...

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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 crud,
That when his wife with two sons saw
To go on...

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If I am not sick with pareidolia,
I couldn’t notice‘The Scream’ by 
Edvard Munch on my neighbour’s door,
created by the light coming from
the ground floor. 

Not even the pit on the footpath, 
where a stone was...

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How will I be in 10 years,
the fir tree asks the maple,
the calf asks the cow,
the baby splutters out


I need to know before they publish
the writs. I need to know 
before my head is presented
on...

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Off we fly my salohmay...
'Til our wings do fail...
Higher higher into day...
Aloft our golden sail...

Tethered so at lands below...
Far too long as we both know...
Now time walks within our path...
Rather than we in aftermath...

So smile...

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The lavender clouds, lowered, like a fluffy blanket
                           ...

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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 uncontrolled lusty desire
he promised her anything that she wished for
and,...

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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 watching  always the sharpening of a...

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Solome danced like someone who danced before the gods
With hungry eyes they watched her every move  
Like ruby red wine the audience drank her seductive moves
But at what cost what price we all pay...

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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 visited the tomb of Christ.
We went to simply apply fragrances...

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Find me.
You can always find me,
In the Land of Memories.
It's a lovely place to go visit,
When I'm lonely and just sit.
Or I can stand at the gate,
I don't have to wait,
Because before too long,
Someone nice...

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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 - 
stranger the walls do speak here
in the mirror swimming...

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burn me down
like Babylon 
consume my flesh with fire
unquenchable
Desire

Raze me to the ground
scatter every brick
To the four winds
bury me
like Osiris 
divided
divine sectioning
seconding
Sacralizing

phallicizing 
Pour your living waters
down my throat 
into my belly
and up from beneath 

holify...

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" Salome "

Salome some say her name to be~
Ship thus a'sail seven sea~
Fair of loft & figure soft~
Heart o'mine & hers set free~

Sail we shall my ship my love~
Sail we shall upon wings o'dove~
Sail now...

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There was a man named John
who became Jesus best friend
he followed his pathway
going through every twist and bend

John left his father Zebedee
to follow the Jesus way
he went with Peter and James to Gethsemane
there to see...

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Easter shouts and whispers to a
vast world as well as to you and me.
Easter speaks life and love to me and
millions more in a myriad of ways.

Most recently I hear the sound of names.
I hear...

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Salome of chapel Street
Is weaving her body to a chemical induced beat,
Synapses electrified, imprisoned in a psychological 
Loop,
Barefooted With grubby toes she twirls in little
Circles,
Throwing her hands in the air as she tries to bridge
The...

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Sodom and Gomorrah
There is nothing at all today that remains
Of those two sinful cities that once stood on the plain.
When God vent his wrath upon Sodom and Gomorrah,
They quickly went from here today to gone...

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THE MOTHER OF ALL ABAYA POEMS
        (103rd Air Command Pilot Lady)
Well Colonel you may think you're Rudolph Valintino
and the sheik of the hundred and third air clown.
but this...

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 Beauty of the Maliced-Night
Come to me, Wake me up
Forlorn I've been for Centuries
My heart beckons for the day
of the thought of You

Glimpsing in my dreams I see you fighting through
The Iron-Gate that held me...

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