Adam

Ignorance inferred innocence. A gleeful God,

nose in air, pottering about the garden, yawning

over supine stones, blotting up meaningless space.

A daze of empty-headed days stretching

beyond the rock’s capacity to comprehend …

The serpent offered a cosmos, life outside

the cocoon of theoretical physics,

where love included risk of losing everything.  

Eve’s breathless intuition, how pleasures,

unpredictable and impure thoughts seeded

the discovery of an unrestrained

and ripening awareness amid this heretofore

forbidden existence -- walking dreams

one could cart and carry about in the sunlight.

Free will, she called it. This delicious golden

apple I knew I'd been craving all morning.

Ken e Bujold

Reviews

[nj coleman]

Ken
This is excellent. "Where love included risk of losing everything" is a superb thought and makes leaving the safety (yawn) of Eden a blessing in disguise.
I admire this form of poetry. Well done.

[Ken e Bujold]

Thanks for stopping by nj. Glad you enjoyed the read. This is part of an ongoing series of new poems. Working in the vein of the old French Quatern form (16 lines) but in a more free and unencumbered way. Poems use the 16 in various ways, one verse, two verse, even an occasional traditional form. Inspired by Robert Lowell's History sonnets, and the freeishness of my fav, Seamus Heaney.