»
Archives
»
Open Poetry #2
»
Eve II
| Open Poetry #2 |
|
Eve II |
|
|
H. Arlequin Member
since 1999-08-23
Posts 210 |
"Eve II" is the second of a trilogy about the wives (of Adam, Cain and Seth,) who were the initial women refered to in the book of Genesis. Eve II I know the beasts with cloven shoes their cud to ruminate, some either claw or fang can choose the slower decimate. Seeing the dragons of the air that snatch a child at play, I fear the mammoths with red hair trampling all in their way. These I know well, each one I fear but none do I dread more than he the beast, residing here whose offspring oft I bore. The hunted thrills the beast who kills a nomad's food fulfills. If evil has a form her own to stalk the prey she sees, it was of him to God well known a brute with pride's disease. The first to Eve, his god-like form perfection to the eyes, though tall and straight, a thunderstorm furious, a brother dies. The joy of life that once he knew when work with hands well done, replaced by fear of death that grew as time more sands would run. The haunted thrill, a beast who kills relentless time fulfills. Where once each day with Father spoke, he cannot hear a sound, as if there were a fiendish joke requiring sin astound the Maker's watchful eye, with him its featured knave, whose choice, the vile embrace and die, His love decried, deprave. The bludgeoned fist, his wielded blows, a battered lump of clay five hundred years of bruises knows that hell on earth one day, enduring long the depths of pain, despised the wife of Cain. --BGvH . . . . Women of the Word Poems From the Goober Tree http://nathoo.wustl.edu/baron/women/women_main.htm [This message has been edited by H. Arlequin (edited 09-23-1999).] |
||
| © Copyright 1999 H. Arlequin - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
snow in summer Member
since 1999-08-28
Posts 67 |
This is poem evokes so much pain it is sometimes difficult to bear reading. How you make the reader feel for Cain's wife. This poem is heart wrenching... completely the opposite of Eve, but just as wonderfully done. |
||
|
Pepper Member Elite
since 1999-08-19
Posts 3079Southern Florida |
another excellent piece HA........ ------------------ May your days be filled with lots of sunshine and your nights lit up by golden moonbeams |
||
|
Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Very nicely done, HA - I wonder why you changed your format??.... Gotta see what you did in #3 now...  |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||