[stylist] Poem - "Eve"

[William L Houts via stylist]

Thanks, Myrna!


--Bill





On 5/19/2014 3:11 PM, myrnaspoetry via stylist wrote:
> Bill, as I read this all I kept thinking was that Eve did her thing!
> I like this style of writing though I myself am not good at at it. This was a fun read to me.
>
> Myrna
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 18, 2014, at 6:02 PM, William L Houts via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Blinks,
>>
>> Here's a poem I wrote a couple of days ago.  It's in a less literary form that I'm working on now, less concerned with certain literary effects.  Also, it seems a subject appropriate to late Sunday afternoon.
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>>
>> --Bill
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>> ---
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>> Eve
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>> Let's say I believe the Book
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>> the same way I believe in apples and curiosity.
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>> Eve, then, our mother first
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>> was nobody's dupe; and the snake was no devil
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>> but a wise townsman in that primest of towns.
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>> "See all of the colors?" he said,
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>> that giddy green mayor.
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>> Our Eve saw all the pigments
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>> of which the serpent was one
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>> and wanted to paint.
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>> copyright William L. Houts 2014
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