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  • Index
  • About
  • Essays
  • Profiles
  • The Holocaust Poems
  • The Dark Lady Reflections
  • The Story of Sol
  • Stepping Stones to Freedom
  • Zaundrew and His Brother Simeon
  • The Serpent's Bite
  • Cupid's Fall
  • Heavens Farthest Gate
  • Music From Another Time
  • Future Sight
  • Because One Listened
  • Alice Chronicles
  • Divine Promiscuity
  • Paranomasia
  • Shame
  • Sun and Moon
  • A Farewell
  • What is this Love
  • Thoughts on Sycophancy
  • The Lighthouse
  • Beauty Beast
  • Birth Day
  • Infinity Mind
  • Man Woman
  • Postulates of a New Physics
  • The Cylinder
  • Joe - A Story of Enlightenment
  • Margie and Michael
  • Father Death
  • Thesis
  • If I Had a Million
  • I am a Sea Dog
  • The Inner Sanction
  • Are You Listening
  • PDQ
  • A Review - May 14 - 2014
  • In the Defense of the Liberal Arts
  • History of Writing - Part One
  • History of Writing - The Puppet Story
  • When the Dream Becomes Your Limit
  • A Breakthrough in Video Music Performance
  • James McCracken Sings Birthday of a King
  • Highfield Diaries
  • The Pursuit of Mastery
  • Metaphysics of Identity
  • Consciousness and Business
  • Stockhuasen in New York
  • The Birth of Infinity
  • Quantum
  • Dr. Thomas Sudhof
  • Dr. Harvey Brem
  • Anthony and Jeanette Senerchia
  • My Friend Sal
  • Threnody
  • Unloved Thoughts
  • Black Snow
  • Ice Angels
  • The Skies of Thunder Moon
  • Index
  • About
  • Essays
    • Are You Listening
    • PDQ
    • A Review - May 14 - 2014
    • In the Defense of the Liberal Arts
    • History of Writing - Part One
    • History of Writing - The Puppet Story
    • When the Dream Becomes Your Limit
    • A Breakthrough in Video Music Performance
    • James McCracken Sings Birthday of a King
    • Highfield Diaries
    • The Pursuit of Mastery
    • Metaphysics of Identity
    • Consciousness and Business
    • Stockhuasen in New York
    • The Birth of Infinity
    • Quantum
  • Profiles
    • Dr. Thomas Sudhof
    • Dr. Harvey Brem
    • Anthony and Jeanette Senerchia
    • My Friend Sal
  • The Holocaust Poems
    • Threnody
    • Unloved Thoughts
    • Black Snow
    • Ice Angels
    • The Skies of Thunder Moon
  • The Dark Lady Reflections
  • The Story of Sol
  • Stepping Stones to Freedom
  • Zaundrew and His Brother Simeon
  • The Serpent's Bite
  • Cupid's Fall
  • Heavens Farthest Gate
  • Music From Another Time
  • Future Sight
  • Because One Listened
  • Alice Chronicles
  • Divine Promiscuity
  • Paranomasia
  • Shame
  • Sun and Moon
  • A Farewell
  • What is this Love
  • Thoughts on Sycophancy
  • The Lighthouse
  • Beauty Beast
  • Birth Day
  • Infinity Mind
  • Man Woman
  • Postulates of a New Physics
  • The Cylinder
  • Joe - A Story of Enlightenment
  • Margie and Michael
  • Father Death
  • Thesis
  • If I Had a Million
  • I am a Sea Dog
  • The Inner Sanction

THE SERPENT'S BITE

It is said that it was the Serpent
That first hissed the silver song of Love,
As it wrapped itself around Eve's Eden heart.
"Come and touch the fruit of Knowledge,
To know what is good and what is not,
What is this and what is that,
To finally know there
Is another that is not you”

If Eve had only touched the Tree of Life
Instead of the Fruit of Mind
Where would we have wandered?

Perhaps,
Life would have found no force to know itself.
We might exist... but how so lowly a beast
Inarticulate and deaf to tears and joys.
Hearts bereft of knowing what it is to know.

"So come and taste the blessed fruit
that will let slip the scales from sleepy eyes.
Let thoughts take root in Eden's ground,
That there is someone else
Beyond the boundaries of what is you."

We are ashamed, for we are made separate.
But in the Falling from the Grace we gained the Blessing
Of what it is to leave and find our way home again.

Love returned is the true gift of Eve, 
The fruit of that first Apple's bitter bite.

Temptation and Fall  by Michelangelo
From the Sistine Chapel