Good Apple
We were never supposed to stay in the garden, and Eve is the hero of the story of Genesis.
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.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and all kinds of witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me.
I’m known as Dena Brown to the revenuers and pollsters.
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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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
Here’s a link to a critical reading of my poem: https://shopping-feedback.today/geeks/a-formalist-new-critical-close-reading-of-good-apple%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Brilliant short but says it all ♦️♦️♦️
This is fantastic. The end lines make it amazing.