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Open Poetry #32

Cleopatra's Mirror

Constance
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since 2001-07-28

Posts 393
Ohio

0 posted 2004-06-24 01:02 PM

Cleopatra’s Mirror

I must be more
Than this image
Of kohl-eyed copper allows.
This face is too plain
This head too Greek
This neck too slender
Too weak to bear
A crown heavy
with the weight
Of two lands.

I must be more
Than I can glean
From polished metal.
What hands as fine
As these could build
A throne upon the
Brother-husband’s
Blood and bone?
Or breasts so common
Suckle a nation?

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

1 posted 2004-06-24 01:07 PM

nicely done... inner thoughts and ones only perhaps a mirror would know...

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2004-06-24 02:31 PM

Constance

Everyone, is more than their reflection. (as my mother was fond of saying, "pretty is as pretty does")

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2004-06-24 02:34 PM

Constance
Enjoyed the read.

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2004-06-24 02:36 PM

Well done!

"cast me gently into the morning, for the night has been unkind"
~Sarah McLachlan~

Constance
Member

since 2001-07-28

Posts 393
Ohio

5 posted 2004-06-24 02:41 PM

Thank you all for reading this piece and commenting.

smiles,
Constance

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

6 posted 2004-06-25 12:21 PM

Enjoyed the reflection! (pun intended)

Susan
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since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

7 posted 2004-06-25 08:47 PM

As an arm chair Egyptologist, this one tickled my fancy. Enjoyed.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

8 posted 2004-06-25 08:51 PM

Much enjoyed this write..very nice indeed.
Hugs~

Something tugs at me, I've no doubt of that.
Something from the sea, whichever one I'm near.
When I stray too far from beachland, it calls me back

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