Ode to Cleopatra

Ode To Cleopatra (1998-2011)

Cleopatra waiting for attention in the in-tray

Queen in training

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ODE TO CLEOPATRA

Poem and Images Ode To Cleopatra © Copyright To Anne Frandi-Coory

oh Cleo, how we loved your magical, comic ways

how you lighted up our every, ordinary days

those intense, ebony eyes, so wicked yet so wise

the more intense and sorrowful, thus made your demise

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long summer days in our garden paradise, did we lie

you seemingly asleep amid the catnip and the rose

Paul and I, the garden seat nearby did we occupy

to chat and muse; you one ear, one eye, unclosed

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we knew, ourselves, you listened to all we might say

perhaps even chuckled ‘ah, mere mortals are they’

‘I, Cleopatra number eight, have come from Cleopatras one to seven

to guide you around this earthly home and garden heaven’

Read more of my poem *Ode To Cleopatra*

here in DRAGONS DESERTS and DREAMS

Published in The Australian Writer issue #374 February 2012