Seharaa Poems | Examples

MARRYING PLEASING THE COVENANT OF GOD--

Televised is the burden of my heart cries;
Lovely is the often awesome struck guise;
We soul, hearts mind envisions together;
Rise in us darling, please the covenant of God
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For Him in Him His glory and honor:
Energies combine electric triumph;
I dear heart love you more there’s no less;
This coupling is soar heavenly bless;


2/11/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©

Seharaa Marriage Nikah Song

Seharaa Marriage Nikah Song

I soul so love you earnestly I do;
In and always I desire to be true;
Willingly a covenant relationship;
In arm together will be your mate;
Lifelong, covenant relationship;
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God-ordained a gift from God;
Together sustains the stewardship;
Purposeful a way to serve all;
Faithful intimacy sexual relation; 
Loving and intimate a selfless;
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A way to show the world Jesus;
A way for husbands to lead by;
As husband giving, not taking;
Wife submits husbands Godly;
Embracing and also honoring;
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Loving and intimate selfless;
Selfless relationship that lasts;
Through all of forever eternity;
Lifelong, covenant relationship;
Between you and I love U only;
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Thanks B to God for you solely;
This holy union love Hallelujah;


12/20/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024©

The only black swan on the Lake

She swam so beautifully captivating 
the sky mesmerizing the rivers 
edge she panders about with such 
grace owning her own dreams she 
caters to fulfillment honored by 
her beauty moving with strength 
confidence as on lookers watch her 
sun bathe in her blackness adorned 
by flaws made her even more 
brilliant this wondrous creature 
before us raved in the glory of 
self assurance a masterpiece of 
essence created by God as she swam 
over the gleaming pond bowing her 
head beneath cool waters shaking off her 
tail feathers the mere wonder revealed

Arthenia's Birthday

Today would've been Arthenia's birthday if she hadn't died.
Last year, I lost my aunt and my uncle lost his bride.
Arthenia died in 2018 and she was born in 1955.
She'd be celebrating her birthday if she was alive.

Arthenia's life was saved when she had open heart surgery several years ago.
But if you're wondering if surgery could've saved her again, the answer is no.
Arthenia lost her life, sadly, it's true.
She left this world at the age of 62.

[Dedicated to Arthenia Johnson (1955-2018) who died on August 3, 2018.]

Anxiety Iv

Pill bottles
Line kitchen counters
A daily
Ritual
Some things are much different now
Someday I’ll be fine

Sher Oy

Buja dey garmi ban jaa  Meri jaan
Smile......


   Chod dey caasani chod dey jalabi bakwas dey  mitaas teyre hooto ki Meri jaan 


  Jaan ley jaan ki Tham  ley Hath  Meri jaan 


Sula  De Meri jaan chupa dey Meri Chilim Meri jaan 


 Meri jaan bus sula dey jaan

      Baanja soue gaadja dil mai ley ley jaan Meri jaan


   Na chube tare kabhi dekh luga Meri jaan


   Sek ley taan Meri yaad baan ja yaad Meri jaan bus soolade Meri jaan


Na bharu ga wo sindoor jo mit jae tip tip kar key pakad ley dahakan dhaak dhaak kar ke Meri jaan





With love all
jagdish bajantri

Homeless Dude On My Corner

My belly aint nearly full
Cause what I got I spend on this
I **** my brains all day
I find peace
If you want my peace

Introduction

The first pleasure of reading Seharaas side by side lies in hearing how ceremonial praise becomes personal. Each poet must write toward a shared occasion while finding language that belongs to a particular speaker, recipient, family, and gathering. That tension gives the poems their energy: public celebration may carry private affection, reverence may make room for wit, and familiar expressions of blessing may be refreshed by one precise memory or image.

As you browse the poems in this collection, notice the range of possible voices. A poet may sound intimate, dignified, exuberant, playful, or gently teasing. Another may emphasize the wedding's communal atmosphere, the qualities of the person being honored, or the emotional threshold between one stage of life and another. Musical patterning can make praise feel cumulative, while balanced phrasing can lend the poem the measured confidence of a ceremonial address. Those same features also create challenges: an overly predictable compliment may feel impersonal, and a conspicuous sound choice can distract from genuine feeling.

Reading beyond the first example reveals how much interpretation lives inside convention. Compare which details poets select, how they arrange praise, where they shift emotional direction, and what kind of final impression they leave. One Seharaa may build toward blessing, another toward communal joy, and another toward a quietly affectionate farewell. The collection is therefore more than a set of specimens. It is a place to observe how different writers negotiate sound, performance, relationship, and occasion while keeping an individual poetic presence audible.

Reading Guide

Read a Seharaa not only as text on a page but also as language prepared for a ceremonial moment. Its words may need to reach listeners immediately, yet the poem should still reward closer attention afterward. As you read the community poems, imagine voice, breath, timing, and audience response. Then compare how each writer turns praise into movement rather than presenting a static list of admirable qualities.

• Identify the speaking relationship. Notice whether the voice feels familial, communal, intimate, formal, or playfully observant. The relationship determines what kind of praise sounds earned. Ask: what does this speaker seem uniquely able to say about the person being honored?
• Trace the order of praise. Look at how the poem moves among character, appearance, family bonds, hopes, memories, and blessings. Sequence creates an emotional journey within the ceremony. Ask: does each passage deepen or redirect what came before, or does the poem remain at one emotional level?
• Listen to line endings as returns. Recurring sounds can produce anticipation and make each line feel like part of a shared musical design. They can also expose awkward wording. Ask: do the sonic returns intensify meaning, introduce surprise, or merely announce themselves?
• Attend to breath and ceremonial pacing. Some lines invite a stately delivery; others encourage energy, laughter, or rapid accumulation. Pacing affects whether the poem feels solemn, festive, intimate, or theatrical. Ask: where would a performer pause, and what emotional work would that pause accomplish?
• Distinguish specific praise from general compliment. A concrete gesture, remembered habit, or carefully chosen image can make honor feel personal without becoming private to the point of obscurity. Ask: which details allow an unfamiliar reader to sense the recipient's individuality?
• Watch the balance between reverence and play. Gentle teasing can warm a family audience, while excessive joking may weaken the ceremonial center. Unbroken solemnity can likewise become heavy. Ask: how does the poet control tonal shifts so that humor and sincerity support rather than cancel each other?
• Study the final gesture. Closure may offer a blessing, widen from an individual to the gathered community, or return to a central image. Ask: does the ending feel like a genuine culmination and a satisfying moment for performance, rather than simply the point where the pattern stops?

After reading, revisit the poems aloud. Comparison becomes sharper when you can hear how voice, sonic expectation, emotional sequence, and closure create different experiences from a shared ceremonial purpose.

Writing Tips

Begin with the occasion, but do not let ceremony write the poem for you. A strong Seharaa needs an identifiable emotional reason for this speaker to honor this person now. Before drafting, gather particulars: gestures, sayings, family memories, admired qualities, hopes, and images associated with the wedding moment. The form's musical discipline should organize that material, not replace it.

• Choose a governing angle. Decide whether the poem will present a portrait, follow a movement from memory to blessing, celebrate family connection, or dramatize a threshold. A clear angle prevents praise from becoming an unrelated catalogue of compliments.
• Make admiration evidential. Instead of repeatedly naming virtues, show how those virtues appear in conduct, relationships, or remembered actions. Specific evidence gives ceremonial praise credibility and allows affection to emerge without overstatement.
• Plan emotional escalation. Sketch where the poem begins, where it becomes more personal, and what the audience should feel at the close. Escalation need not mean louder emotion; it may move from playful observation toward tenderness or from individual praise toward communal blessing.
• Build sound from useful language. Collect flexible words and images related to the subject before committing to a dominant sonic pattern. This reduces forced phrasing. If an end word exists only to satisfy the ear, revise the thought or rebuild the line rather than defending a weak choice.
• Use line proportions to shape delivery. Similar spans can create poise and expectancy, but padding destroys that effect. Test each line as a unit of breath. Replace filler with stronger verbs, clearer images, or a deliberate pause that a performer can inhabit.
• Write for the room without excluding the page. Names, kinship references, and shared memories can delight those present, yet listeners still need enough context to follow the feeling. Let personal details reveal character rather than functioning as unexplained references.
• Control humor carefully. Playful exaggeration or affectionate teasing can release energy and invite participation. Aim the joke toward warmth, never humiliation. Place humor where it refreshes the praise, and follow it with language that restores emotional depth.
• Give the ending a ceremonial task. The final lines might bless, gather earlier images, acknowledge a changed relationship, or open toward the future. Avoid introducing an unrelated compliment merely because it supplies a convenient sound. Closure should feel spoken for a reason.

During revision, read the entire draft aloud at performance volume, then ask another reader to listen without seeing the page. Mark every stumble, vague compliment, overlong phrase, predictable turn, and conspicuously forced word. Revise sound and sense together. Finally, check that the poem still reveals an individual human relationship beneath its polished ceremonial surface.

Interesting Facts

• The page is only part of the poem. A Seharaa can be approached as a performance score: punctuation, sentence length, repeated syntax, and line breaks suggest breath, emphasis, and audience contact. Silent reading may reveal imagery, while reading aloud exposes whether the ceremonial voice feels natural.
• Predictability can become suspense. When listeners anticipate a sonic return, the poet gains an opportunity to delay, redirect, or deepen it. The most satisfying arrival is not necessarily the most obvious word; it is the one that sounds inevitable after it has been heard.
• Praise becomes stronger when it has texture. General admiration establishes goodwill, but a concrete habit, gesture, object, or memory gives listeners something to picture. Such details can carry affection more persuasively than a sequence of elevated adjectives.
• Formal smoothness is not the same as emotional development. A poem may sound polished from line to line yet remain static. Memorable Seharaas use musical continuity to carry a changing feeling, perspective, or scale-from one person toward family, community, or future hope.
• Humor changes the social temperature. A playful passage can make a ceremonial performance feel intimate and alive, but its placement matters. Humor near tenderness may sharpen affection; humor without tonal recovery may leave the poem feeling slight.
• Small variations become highly audible. Once a poem establishes balance and sonic expectation, a shorter phrase, altered cadence, or unexpected ending receives extra emphasis. Experienced poets can use that heightened attention deliberately rather than treating every variation as an error.
• Comparison separates convention from personality. Browsing several community interpretations helps readers recognize which effects arise from the shared ceremonial framework and which belong to a poet's imagery, syntax, emotional stance, and sense of performance.

Popular Themes

Subject matter and form meet most powerfully when the theme can unfold through public address, musical recurrence, and emotional progression. The following possibilities are literary avenues rather than claims about statistical popularity. Each gives the Seharaa's ceremonial voice a different kind of work to perform.

• Blessing and future hope. A wedding naturally looks forward. Repeated wishes can accumulate emotional force when each one adds a distinct dimension-companionship, patience, joy, mutual care, or resilience-instead of restating general happiness.
• Portrait of the person being honored. Character, appearance, humor, generosity, or familiar mannerisms can form a layered portrait. The challenge is to move beyond flattering labels and select details that sound true to the speaker's relationship.
• Family and belonging. Kinship offers a broad emotional field: pride, welcome, continuity, changing roles, and shared responsibility. A communal voice can enlarge personal affection without erasing the individual at the poem's center.
• Threshold and transformation. The ceremony marks a change in social and emotional life. Images of crossing, opening, departure, arrival, or new direction can give the poem movement and help its ending feel earned.
• Memory and growing up. A brief remembered scene may connect the honored person's earlier life with the present celebration. This theme works best when memory leads somewhere, revealing what has changed and what affection preserves.
• Welcome and expanded relationship. The poem may acknowledge newly joined families or altered bonds. Inclusive address can transform praise into hospitality, allowing the ceremonial audience to hear itself becoming a larger community.
• Playful teasing. Affectionate observations about habits, expectations, or wedding-day excitement can enliven performance. The form's public setting makes tact essential: the laughter should confirm belonging rather than expose vulnerability.

As you read the community poems, compare how writers transform related subjects through voice and selection. Similar blessings may sound intimate or grand; similar family themes may become humorous, reflective, or tender. The theme matters, but the poet's arrangement of detail, sound, and emotional direction makes it distinctive.

Editorial Insights

The central artistic tension of a Seharaa lies between shared ceremony and individual truth. The occasion asks for recognizable honor, pleasure, and social generosity; poetry asks for language that could not have been placed around just anyone. A technically recognizable poem may satisfy audible expectations, yet a memorable one makes those expectations carry a particular relationship. Its praise feels discovered through observation rather than applied as decoration.

Structure becomes necessary when it shapes emotional attention. A recurring sound can gather separate statements into a communal current, but its deeper value is anticipatory: listeners begin waiting for each arrival. Strong poets use that expectation to control emphasis, reserving especially resonant words for moments of emotional consequence. Balanced phrasing can give the performance composure, while purposeful variation can signal tenderness, surprise, or a turn toward blessing. Craft and subject reinforce each other when musical return resembles the poem's own act of returning to admired qualities, family bonds, or future hopes.

Weakness appears when pattern dictates thought. Forced vocabulary, inverted syntax, padded lines, and interchangeable compliments reveal that compliance has overtaken expression. Predictability is especially costly because ceremonial language already carries familiar expectations; if every line merely confirms what the audience assumed, the poem has nowhere to travel. Over-explanation creates a different problem. A poet may supply so much family context or declare the meaning of every image so plainly that performance loses momentum. At the other extreme, a succession of names and private references may leave readers outside the gathering. The strongest drafts provide enough context for emotional access while preserving the immediacy of direct address.

Individuality remains visible through selection: which memory is admitted, which quality receives emphasis, where humor enters, how the speaker positions the self, and what final gesture is offered. One poet may create intimacy through conversational diction; another may favor heightened imagery and stately cadence. Neither approach is inherently stronger. Quality depends on whether voice, sound, pacing, imagery, and occasion feel mutually supporting. Comparing community poems develops this judgment more effectively than treating one example as a universal model. Side-by-side reading reveals alternative solutions to the same artistic pressures and helps readers distinguish mere regularity from expressive control.

Read, Write & Share

Read beyond the first example and listen for how each community poet balances ceremony with personal feeling. Compare the speakers, the movement of praise, the handling of sound, the use of family detail, and the final gesture. A thoughtful comment can identify a line of emotional movement, a memorable image, or a performance choice that deserves attention.

Then try composing a Seharaa of your own. Write toward a real relationship and occasion, test the draft aloud, and publish it on PoetrySoup when its music and meaning support each other. Your interpretation can extend the conversation while giving future readers another approach to consider.

Collection Statistics

At present, this collection contains 2 Seharaa poems. Its focused size makes close, side-by-side reading especially useful: visitors can attend to differences in ceremonial voice, patterns of praise, musical pacing, imagery, and closure without losing sight of the shared occasion. Each poem should be read on its own terms, since poets may follow inherited conventions closely, adapt them to a particular family or audience, or challenge expectations while preserving a recognizable relationship to the form.

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