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 sup a bit, and then
We will dive, together,
Clothed in our heavenly robes
Into those crystal waters
And come out again,
With the fabric,
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Categories:
scheherazade, appreciation, beauty, love, princess,
Form: Free verse
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 called her "Dale," (1) sure she'd make a good wife!
Oh, her folks moved too quickly, by 'second' was gone,
But 'Scheherazade'
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Categories:
scheherazade, love, music,
Form: Sonnet
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 your revenge
On woman who betrayed
The one who broke YOUR heart
So you must have them slayed
But what am I to do
When
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Categories:
scheherazade, history, how i feel,
Form: Epic
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 to be
Cracked,
Diversions that are cut in halves,
Each story better than
The last.
He realizes not that I've spun a web around
His
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Categories:
scheherazade, imagination
Form: Tail-rhyme
' 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
- - - - - - - - - -
… I Have Lost 200 Poems
But Here Are 300
Because I Open My Arms
To Inspiration Undaunted …
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Categories:
scheherazade, allegory, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form: Light Verse