Kim Merryman Poet Clerihew

Cleopatra

Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
                                                Lived and reigned Egypt style.
                                         Her kingdom wrenched from her grasp,
                                                She took her life with an asp.

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Andrea Dietrich September 23, 2012 at 1:24 PM Love how you worked the asp into it!

Carol Sunshine Brown March 9, 2012 at 8:11 AM It is always a pleasure to read your poetry Kim. Thank you for taking the time to read and comment on mine. Love, Carol

Gwendolen Song January 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM Egypt style?..you coined a great new phrase, Kim! Fun one AGAIN!! You got the clerihew fever. Gwendolen

Kyle Kriticos January 27, 2012 at 9:02 AM Wow nice poem here I love the story of Cleopatra and with such brief words you have said alot

S.Jagathsimhan Nair January 27, 2012 at 5:08 AM Cleopatra is a perennial subject..nice one...

Poet Destroyer A January 26, 2012 at 11:32 PM Kim,,a wonderful clerihew..... thank you for sharing.., have yourself a wonderful Friday! ;-) always,..pd

Robert Pettit January 26, 2012 at 11:17 PM Who could forget the late Elizabeth Taylor in that great role in the epic motion picture? You have described her well in this clerihew.

Don Johnson January 26, 2012 at 7:41 PM but she did it all with style, had romans to beguile, perhaps a secret smile, ceasar an anthony....