If Anthony hadn't loved
Cleopatra
in that last second,
maybe he would have
survived
and he would have won
the war within him,
but he had loved her
more than ever
exactly in that second
that had driven him
toward awareness.
Therefore, he fell to death,
whereupon Cleopatra
should live.
She should have been
his widow to suffer
the consequences
and to understand
what real love means,
because her affair of the heart
was too pathetic
to have control over
the destiny of history.
Poem by Marieta Maglas
Wow Mari you took history and brought it back to life. Interesting, original and thought provoking. Very well done and thank you for sharing your talent. :)
really wonderful poem.they were required to live the history and hence the paradox.beautiful write. voted10 surya
her affair of the heart was too pathetic to have control over the destiny of history... Very good poem, the story and history of antony and cleo. tony
Your poem surely has a Shakespearean gravitas. In Shakespeare's play Antony abandons politics, honor (well, a militarist's view of honor) , and power to pass Cleopatra'a repeated tests of love. At one point, he admits she has taken him to the very heart of loss, but there he finds the heart of love too. After a century + of destructive warfare I believe we are ready to give this vision of love our advocacy, and not the vision of war and desolation.
Jilts and spurns indeed a cuisine for poet …here poet caught the theme and cooked nicely…thanks…. Ten+ Ms. Nivedita UK
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
an ideal love that needs grace of love, myth of love redounds to history, quite ingenious write,10+++++, thanls for sharing