There once was a man named Galileo.
To him, scientific knowledge we owe.
He was the brainy inventor
who said, "the earth ain't the center."
I guess that was his basic ideo.
There was a lady named Cleopatra.
She was sad, so I said, "what's the matta?"
"Caesar was stabbed by a brute."
Then, Mark Antony said "You're cute!"
And Cleopatra said, "right back at 'ya."
You may remember Jiminy Cricket.
His puppet said, "I sure like to lick it".
He warned Pinocchio,
"Wherever you may go,
be very careful where you may stick it".
Jiminy Cricket's first lesson for you
is he coulda lived to a hundred two,
but the sign said "don't walk",
so he stood there to gawk.
Now, that's him on the bottom of your shoe.
Christopher Columbus thought the world, round.
The King of Spain, thought his mind, not sound.
The Queen said that what he states
convincingly penetrates.
Chris now has ships to sail the world, around.
Categories:
mark antony, humor,
Form: Limerick
Cleopatra ruler
Captivating beauty
Collected four husband
Caesar was her lover
Claimed Caesarion son
Crucial Roman nation
Chose Mark Antony last
10/21/2020
Cleopatra VII Philopator (Koine Greek: ??e?p?t?a F???p?t??, Kleopátra Philopátor;[5] 69 – 10 or 12 August 30 BC)[note 2] was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
Cleopatra's husbands were (in chronological order)
1. Ptolemy XIII - he drowned in 47 BC
2. Ptolemy XIV - he was allegedly poisoned in c. 44 BC
3. Julius Caesar - he was assassinated in Rome in 44 BC
4. Mark Antony - he committed a suicide following a crucial defeat from Octavian in 31 BC
Categories:
mark antony, history,
Form: Verse
Cleopatra and Mark Antony
Cleopatra fell in love with Mark Antony
She became ruler of Egypt by Antony's decree.
Forced to flee Egypt, her rumored suicide plan...
She let an asp kill her over the loss of her man.
Antony so beguiled by love for his Queen's desire
Giving her much land provoked Roman senate's ire
After Cleopatra became Mark Antony's wife
He thought she was dead, so he took his own life.
1-15-19
Clerihew Contest ~ Second Placement Premiere contest
Sponsor Carolyn Devonshire
Note:
After Caesar's assassination, Cleopatra set her sights on the dashing Roman general Mark Antony. The two began an affair, resulting in twins in 40 B.C. Antony wed Cleopatra in 36 B.C., and appointed his new wife ruler of Egypt, Cyprus, Crete, and Cyria. This abuse of power so outraged the Roman Senate that they denounced him a traitor. After losing a major battle at sea, Antony and Cleopatra were forced to flee to Egypt in 31 B.C. In desperation, Cleopatra spread rumors of her own suicide. Antony, unaware of her plan, stabbed himself to death. When Cleopatra heard of this, she took her own life by inducing a poisonous snake to bite her.
Categories:
mark antony, africa, devotion, history, lost
Form: Clerihew
CLEOPATRA
Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, the black beauty,
clever, erudite, great politician, attractive cutie.
Her exotic charisma and magnetic attraction
whelmed Julius Caesar to tie romantic relation.
Couple kept happy marital status
Till Caser was assassinated by Brutus.
Strong seduction of Cleopatra compelled Mark Antony
to fall in love and make a knot of matrimony.
01/11/19
First Place
' A BRIAN STRAND JULY' Contest by Brian Strand
Categories:
mark antony, beauty, romantic love,
Form: Clerihew
Mythological ruthless Cleopatra
Larger than life in 30 B.C.
Her Achilles’ heel being Mark Antony
His untimely death too much to bear
Solitarily confined in her mausoleum
Desperately recluse with her royal asp
Her only sanctioned confidente
Sole witness to her feverish distress
Through a night ever dark and bitter
Raging with unbearable emptiness
Kiss me Take me
In an embrace of death
Royal prince of the Nile
I give myself wholeheartedly
With consummate abandon
Kiss my eyes closed
Let me drift into a deep sleep
As you expedite me to my lover
Where we shall reign again
United in the afterlife
AP: 2nd place 2021
Submitted on April 28, 2018 for contest ASP sponsored by ANTHONY SLAUSEN - RANKED 7TH
Categories:
mark antony, animal, dark, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
To me I saw you
you are still there
as beautiful
to be in the presence
of you.
Making all my stars fly
a summers day
to kiss you
all my dreams
even to the end
My rose
unless it gathers thorns
Like Cleopatra.
I want to be your Mark Antony
forever yours
into words
As my life passes us by
never forget the love
I have for you.
A real dream
made for a reason
It is so special
I can never find
the right words
until now.
You who suffocates my heart
The circle of my life
who has the very keys
beautiful to me as a rose
my eclipse.
my very own heart
broken in all
that a woman
should be
forever beautiful
Categories:
mark antony, lost love,
Form: Free verse