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Premium Member A New Mythology
There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame 
Showing the way for true rock & rollers. 
It’s...

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Categories: scheherazade, allegory, mythology,
Form: Blank verse



Marriage To Alarmingly Ballooning
Marriage to alarmingly ballooning...

dramatically expanding spouse,
when adorning buttons 
pop off undersized blouse
which spurs yours truly to grouse,
and ruffle mine tail feathers 
while listening to Scheherazade.

Eats her weigh out of home and house
unsolicited feedback courtesy
quite doubtful,...

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Categories: scheherazade, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Ousted By None But the Night
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Ousted by None but the Night   
Arabic Poem by: Adnan Abu Andalus*
Translated by:
Inaam Al-Hashimi (Gold_n_silk)
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The dusty street is bare 
Darkness there and the horizon  
As if, the night was sprinkling fear
Nothing there
But...

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Categories: scheherazade, arabic, dark, night, sad, war, world,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Name Is Scheherazade
I do not want to die
Like each virgin you bed
When you have ravished her
It's off with pretty head

I do not want to die
But…Oh to be with you!
The supreme ruler, KING
So handsome, yet so cruel

You wanted...

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Categories: scheherazade, history, how i feel, identity,
Form: Epic
Premium Member My Uncle Ardean's Lost Chords
There’s a story I heard of a famous lost chord,
although why it was lost and just who did the losing,
true or not, perhaps no one can tell,
but piano pursuit served me well as a child
as...

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Categories: scheherazade, mentor, music,
Form: Rhyme



Holy Tithe
I saw a man today with zippers on his shoes
and platforms in the news
never stopped him from stepping in the street

I ask him why he looks at the sky
while bombs are blasting at his feet
and...

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Categories: scheherazade, faith, family, imagination, life, loss, philosophy, social,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Scheherazade - a Sonnet
Oh, I dreamed so of marriage when I was a boy,
Of a girl I could cherish, might love my whole life!
In the 'first' grade, a girl (my first love) called me "Roy," (1)
Of course, I...

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Categories: scheherazade, love, music,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Fall of Baghdad
THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, 'tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scheherazade, allah, arabic, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Fall of Babylon
THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scheherazade, analogy, earth day, war, world,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
*Image of Hourglass by Pixabay.
AUDIO: Tip; Right-click on volume then click on Loop of the drop-down menu for continuous play.

Flipped Hourglass

Count, onward we go, pivoting seized dunes,
Tempestuous pilgrimage outstretched phase,
Tick - tock, flops, 'tis a...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scheherazade, time,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member The Fall of Baghdad
THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scheherazade, allah, imagery, war,
Form: Sonnet
My Scheherazade
Cooling your glass in
The cold waters
That flow forth, fresh and crisp
From my fragrant heart,
I raise to you that cup of nectar
And I am moved to see the grateful drops
That form in your emerald eyes…

We will...

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Categories: scheherazade, appreciation, beauty, love, princess, romantic love, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Fall of Baghdad
THE FALL OF BAGHDAD
What rite of passage, moves one to the light,
and through the healing of all earthly ail,
bestows this breath of life, to make it right,
Oh Babylon, tis time for life to fail.

Harm thee...

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© Vee Bdosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scheherazade, adventure, angst, art, black african american, death,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
' My 300 Spartans ... ' ( Or My Scheherazade )
To Commemorate My 300th Poem Here On The Soup

300 Solomons
300 Beacons
300 Spartans
300 Martyrs

300 Tales Done
300 Threads Spun
300 Heartsongs
300 Touchstones

300 Scheherazade
Only 700 More, GOD
and Wherever YOU Beam Me
10,000 More, Gleam Me

 - - - - -...

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Categories: scheherazade, allegory, devotion, faith, friendship, happiness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Light Verse
Scheherazade
Another tale, it's just a game--
Kiss Death's cold cheek, but Death evade.
My captor knows not that we 
Play;
I hide it well, within a maze of 
Frames.
What truth that I have left unmasked,
A secret code yet...

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Categories: scheherazade, imagination
Form: Tail-rhyme
Premium Member Channeled Perspectives
I'm channeled rhymes, perspectives of young poet late in life!
Evolving too, I hope to please, share reveries a wife
(Scheherazade) shows to her spouse (loved patrons, here confessed),
who fears both too, for wives do fail, find...

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Categories: scheherazade, appreciation, blessing, friendship, humor,
Form: Rhyme
I Once Awoke
I once awoke in a
Storm of color
When the Persian sky of
Scheherazade made lovers quiver and
Table milk
Spilled in luxury over your
Perfected fingers.

It was only later
When the sweet scent of
Decades dripped from my
Gaping mouth and into the
Wanton...

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Categories: scheherazade, lost love, paradise, romance, senses,
Form: Free verse
Rhymed Review On Tales From a Thousand and One Nights
As sun comes down in the valley, bound by the Tigris and Eufrat, 
Submerges into dark the capital of Muslim Khalifat. 
The night descends on tired from the heat old city of Baghdad, 
Where spears...

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Categories: scheherazade, books,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs