Finding Eve

I really enjoyed reading this. The imagery is beautiful and the emotion clearly felt. You 'took me there'. Excellent - this is an awesome poem. Kaz It's impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

The beauty of poetry [imho] is that it can do much than visual art - for example, on reading this piece three times I added another layer to my visualisation each time. I say that though I have enjoyed making pictures for some time. If you're curious about my pictures [there is one of Eve coincidentally!] you can see them at http:www.flickr/photos/7911705@N07 As always your is superbly constructed and has such depth. Hwyl fawr! Mike

I have an appreciation for all your poems that I have read and heard so far. I love the last five lines. You have a great talent for ending your poems in a powerful and dramatic way: "True intentions only dreamed Thus with a crimson kiss she died Her soul forever held captive by her sins She was on her way downward after all What was one more bite" I, however,hold a different view of Eve to you, they were destined to eat of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. However can a commandment be upheld by a being with no concept of good and evil. It's the same with cain and abel to the story of Judas Iscariot and his part in the betrayal of Christ. Not to get all heavy over religion but these things were all preordained, thus written and meant tobe. Besides it wasn't just Eve who was tempted into doing what she should not have done. Adam had two wives who preceeded the creation of Eve. The first being Lilith, I'm sure you've heard of her, she's kind of the bad girl of Judaic myth. She argued with Adam over sexual rights, and then quite literally not to take the subservient part in sexual congress, that is to take the it in the missionary position, which from her perspective inferred for her tobe inferior to Adam, and as they were both created from the clay to her mind surely they were equal. So upon recieveing no asistance from God in this matter she uttered the ineffable name of God and transformed herself into an owl and flew away. To bed down beneath the red sea, believed at the time tobe a spawning place of demons. The second wife, who had no name, barely gets a mention, and none in the bible, she was constructed in the presence of Adam, of bone and tissue and bowels and organs, and so on, but as he'd witnessed the creation, no matter how beautiful she appeared on completion, all he could see was the foulness beneath, there's also a legend that her skin was translucent. Until third time lucky God created Eve. And we all know how that ended. My point being that the events preceeding the fall were all destined, and there was no real sin at all, life is what we make of it. That said, sorry about the Blurb, I was utterly delighted by your poem. I've listened to all of your spoken word poem recordings. Keep it up, because you've got talent. Love Dalton.

Dear Blue, all I meant to say was I don't believe that Adam and Eve were meant for the confines of the gates of hell. That Original sin is just a sly metaphor for evolution. In that as some philosophers have stated that Eve, that is the soul, not only the abstract thinking part of the humam entity, whereas Adam was the active, whereas Eve was the subconscious, torn from Adam the physical part of the human entity, in the form of the rib. Enough blurb, all I meant to say was that I don't believe that Adam and Eve were bound for hell, because there Sin was only in the evolution of the human entity, in that before eating of the apple, how could they have the knowledge that God's commandment was final, how could they even have any understanding of this. For he that increases knowledge increases suffering. The part that I love is that they, the first lovers, are one, one flesh and always shall be. They deserve a place in the stars like the ancient Greek gods. We should be able to gaze the heavens by night and point and say look do you see the lovers. Love Dalton.

there is a wonderful book called: "The Story Of Eve" by Pamela Norris about women in the Bible and the semitic myths if you have an interest in an interpretation of the true nature of Eve, as i say it's only an interpretation but it's a good read if you can find it. look on Amazon. love john