For a Queen

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So many colours to your soul,
So many sounds to sing
As down the ages it doth roll
From you to me to bring ...

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The golden girdle of the Queen
Of Amazons so bold,
Queen Hyppolyta is now seen
In you - again - in gold! 
And singing deep of daring deeds
Of hunt and chase and catch,
My Queen is with me sharing needs
That no one else may match!

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Seven veils of Salome sweet
Are mine as gifts from you,
Princess of ' peace' who doth entreat
Only my head will do,
And so she weaves her rhythmic lure
With dusky dance and dare
And only she can give the cure
That only I can share.

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Fantastic fables of the mind
Scheherezade has spun,
And every night I likewise find
You tell me every one;
The starlight of your eyes doth shine,
Your voice like watered silk,
Scheherezade now you are mine,
My bowl of moonlight milk.

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And in my heart I hold the hoard,
The treasures of the Nile,
And every night I climb aboard
The barge of your sweet smile!
Queen of the Nile you come to me
With gems and dates and wine;
Oh cat like Sphinx can you not see,
Queen Cleopatra's mine!

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Still on your spirit travels,
O'er eons of your lives,
But still your fate unravels
And back to me arrives!

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Bright Helen of beleaguered Troy
Come leave your tower cold,
My love you are and not a toy
For Kings to have you sold;
Your beauty is much more than war
Can wage and ever win,
My ships are launched for evermore
To save you from such sin.

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Brave Guinevere, sad Guinevere,
The nightmare has it's end,
Your Knight has come to bring you cheer
Your broken heart to mend,
Upon my steed I'll bare you far
To kingdom of content,
Where hate and greed can never mar
Our kingdom Heaven sent!

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Deep In the mists and murk's of time
I feel your soft embrace,
Entwining reason with your rhyme
In Eden face to face,
And there we share in innocence
A life of languid bliss,
The dawn of man's magnificence - 
The first time we did kiss!

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The blasts of bland reality
May sometimes scorch our skies,
And shriek out for ' normality',
That love like ours is lies,
But never heed the crows of death,
They're jealous of all life,
And die a little with each breath
Of loving man and wife.

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Fair Helen, famed Scheherezade,
Salome or sweet Eve,
What e'er your form I am your guard
And from you will not leave,
So many colours has your soul,
So many sounds to sing,
And through the ages it will roll
To me your love to bring!

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For all these things you are to me,
In spirit if not form,
Each life a drop of swirling sea,
A rain drop in the storm;
And as the waves and currents flow,
Do swell and swoop and slide,
One thing forever you must know -
You'll always be my bride!                        

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S.R.Langley