[stylist] Poem - "Eve"

[William L Houts via stylist]

Thank you, Shawn.  I'm glad you liked this one.


--Bill







On 5/20/2014 5:42 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D wrote:
> Bill
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> That was quite interesting.  I liked the lines about believing in the book the way you believe in curiosity.
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> Shawn
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> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Eve"
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> Hello Blinks,
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> 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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> 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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