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Get rid of those week-old papers,
Neaten-up the magazines,
Place the books upright in the book case,
Throw out the plants that aren't green..
Straighten the towels in the bathroom,
Pick up the shoes on the floor,
Get the slippers out from under the bed,
Close all of the closet doors.
Brush the cat hair from the couch and the chair,
Fluff up the pillows a bit,
Reverse the pads on the breakfast bar stools,
Tie them so they can't slip.
Get rid of the spoiled food in the fridge,
That cheese that's turned green needs to go,
And remove those odd smelling hotdogs,
Before that strange fungus grows.
Hide the T V remote where it's safe,
Tuck the bills out of sight in a drawer,
Make sure the cat is wearing her tags,
In case she gets out the door.
Make mental notes as to where things sit,
And which items belong in what space,
Concentrate on ORGANIZATION,
Remember, each thing has a place.
Now, let's see - what else is left?
I'm exhausted, but I'm done,
And now the house is clean enough,
For the cleaning lady to come!
Unknown
How wonderful the poet be.
How wonderful the poet be, he paints with words so wild a free,
It is through him that the blind can see,
And his colours are immortal.
Uplifted from the poets pen, a miracle of words, and then,
A guidance 'til the last amen,
And his words will live immortal.
Such gentleness to yet be heard, from there within the poets word,
Such messages can be transferred,
To heal the minds of nations.
Throughout the sunsets of our time, whatever mountains we do climb,
We're linked within the poets rhyme,
To breech the great divide.
The poet reaches out to you, with all he says so deep and true,
He paints the most amazing view...
For you to hold forever.
Be gentle is my heartfelt plea, with the fragile poet, you will see,
For the poets words are kind to thee...
How wonderful the poet be.
Copyright ©2005 Sally Y Hemingway
A snake bite is not what killed Cleopatra, queen of the Nile, according to German scientists.
A team led by Christoph Schaefer, a historian and professor at the University of Trier, has concluded that she died after taking a drug cocktail that included opium and hemlock.
After traveling with other experts to Alexandria, Egypt, where Cleopatra ended her life in 30 B.C., Schaefer and the team looked at ancient medical texts and consulted snake experts. History tells us that she induced an asp, now known as the Egyptian cobra, to bite her to death.
Did Cleopatra commit suicide by inducing a snake to bite her, or did she take a deadly mix of drugs, as a German scientist says?But the professor said on a science show on the German television channel ZDF, "Queen Cleopatra was famous for her beauty and was unlikely to have subjected herself to a long and disfiguring death."
He added, according to London's Daily Telegraph, that "Cleopatra wanted to remain beautiful in her death to maintain her myth. She probably took a cocktail of opium, hemlock and aconitum. Back then, this was a well-known mixture that led to a painless death within just a few hours, whereas the snake death could have taken days and been agonizing."
According to a medical writer for the Telegraph, however, it is a misconception that taking such "extremely nasty" toxins resulted in a nice, painless sleep.
"Most poisons that kill you do not cause you to doze pleasantly as you expire," says Andrew M. Brown. "You are likely to be wide awake, and suffering. People make this mistake today, I'm afraid to say."
Cleopatra, who reigned from 51 B.C., was an ally and lover of Julius Caesar, with whom she had a son. She also gave birth to three children with Caesar's onetime right-hand man, Mark Antony.
After Caesar was assassinated, she and Antony opposed the man who took his place, Octavian, but the two of them committed suicide after losing a key battle with Octavian's forces. Ancient accounts differ on which one died first.
Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt, which after her death became a Roman province.
