Cleopatra With Caesar In Alexandria

Cleopatra ,  Queen of Egypt  , feasting on Quails
and honeycakes,dressed in glorious splendour.
She minted new coins with her   picture on them
"Mark them Cleopatra Philopater, after the King!"
Garlands of flowers , decorated in gold ,luxurious
purple silk, rooms perfumed in roses, celebrates
her victory with the Roman leader , Julius Caesar.
Bald  as an egg and old enough  to  be her father.
Few women could resist his  sexiness + charms.
Her brother ,Ptolemy thought not and surrounded
Alexandria with a sqad of twenty thousand troops.
Months went by ,Caesars Roman army re-gained
control........Ptolemy Xlll , weighed down by his suit 
of golden armour drowned in the waters of the Nile.
In Alexandria she put his golden armour on display.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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