Good Apple
We were never supposed to stay in the garden, and Eve is the hero of the story of Genesis.
By Harper LewisPublished 6 days ago • 1 min read
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I was a fool,
believing
we could have it all,
led you astray,
got you banished
from the garden
you called home.
That apple was delicious,
and I would eat it again.
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Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction might have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Great poem, Harper. Love this stance ;) Alas, I once wrote about Eve and the garden. But since it was already published, I can not enter it into the challenge.
Definitely an interesting take. My understanding of Adam and Eve was they were both to blame but I know eve is often painted wrongly as the baddie.
This is lovely and refreshing, Harper, and I love the illustration too. The truly sad thing about the garden myth is that men, even the ones who do not believe in gods or devils, have bought this story hook, line and sinker. That’s why I love Lilith. As you said, she is three dimensional. She has pluck and is subservient to no one. That’s a proper myth to put gender relations on equal footing.
Absolutely loved it! You see I always thought it was stupid she was blamed for everything. He could of said no!
Loved this poem!
This. And the irony of it, really. We eat the apple, they spend eternity with it in their throats.
Classic Eve getting blamed for everything…great poem
This has a certain playful defiance that adds to the evocative undertone and the Genesis allusions. Great piece!
It’s fascinating how the poem blends myth and emotion — guilt and pleasure intertwined in a single breath. That final line, “and I would eat it again,” carries such power — both defiance and humanity at once.
I like that the speaker of the poem is ambiguous. Sure, we’re meant to think it’s Eve because she’s always been the baddie in the tale, but what if the speaker is really Adam and he’s owning up to enjoying that apple? Lots of intriguing possibilities if we follow that line of reasoning. Would Adam then be more akin to Prometheus? Cross-comparing mythology makes this far more interesting.
I always find it strange that Eve was blamed for this when Adam and here had no knowledge of right and wrong
Brilliant short but says it all ♦️♦️♦️
This is fantastic. The end lines make it amazing.