"ONCE IN EGYPT"

Egypt

A nation flourished on the

Nile's well-watered banks:

Cleopatra was its queen and

Isis its adored goddess, yet

Even might and magic would

Not be enough to save from doom

The pharaohs and their priests, whose

Enigmatic hieroglyphs would

Guard their mysteries, and not

Yield them up before the

Pyramids had stood for

Thirty centuries and more.

 

  

The Moon Over Giza

Each pyramid contains a King and Queen

Eternal love made physical in stone

Romantic dreams so many men have seen

Must I perceive their message on my own

But in my mind I hear a voice I know

The silver Moon has joined me from above

And through her eyes I know you'll share the show

Five thousand years of sharing life and love

An actors voice seems strangely out of place

The "sound and light" can't add to what we see

The truth is there wrapped in the Sphynx's face

The wise old cat who's seen infinity

The sunset died, and bathed the plain in gold

And you and I relaxed as tales were told

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Producer: Roman Beim, Dresses: Natali Boychuk, Hair: Gala Schwartzman, Make up: Irena Averto, Olya Shtutin, Photographer: Eduartbrush, Roman Beim, Models: Olya Shtutin, Guy Smuel, Nissan Gavni, Rotem Alamo, Asefo Alena

The Fabulous Queen Of Egypt

Woke up to a new life in Egypt

I was young not more than seventeen years

Adorned with gold and precious stones

My body was in the shroud of silk and jewels in my hair

I sat on a throne as a Queen

My name was Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

During the day I lay on the silk cushions

and dozed in the shade of palm trees

Beautiful men and women kept flitting

around me with all sorts of temptations

Fed me all sorts of fruit and cold drinks

When evening came, it was time for romance

As Queen I had many to choose

My choice was of course:

"The greatest men of Rome"

Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius

Why choose one when I can have two?

On a long journey down the Nile with

my love Julius Caesar, I was forced to

make a choice.

But a choice one must take...and the

choice was that I gave birth to a son

and Julius Caesar was the father

My love life was not popular

my husband was killed and I

was no longer popular

It was no longer a life of happiness and joy

No, it was war and national mouming

and I would not live anymore

(18.03.2012 A-L Andresen)

 

Producer: Roman Beim, Dresses: Natali Boychuk, Hair: Gala Schwartzman, Make up: Irena Averto, Olya Shtutin, Photographer: Eduartbrush, Roman Beim, Models: Olya Shtutin, Guy Smuel, Nissan Gavni, Rotem Alamo, Asefo Alena