An apple for hire!

There was much

to be felt

in the last kiss.

The sorrow, the desperation,

knowing the departure -

the disconnection

was going to be

the final farewell.

...in the epitaph

a break of a forbidden fruit

lies on the ground....

The tearing apart

from the velvet cushion

opens the weirs,

a bond now broken.

As naked nymphs

frolicked in the sun

under pagan views

over Stonehenge,

one watched the

forbidden fruit ripen

in the apple yard -

in an orchard of

paradise lost.

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

All in the orchard of paradise lost. The fruit was sampled, no going back now we are all doomed, and it's all down to Adam and Eve. You really got my mind wandering with this one Andrew.

Chris

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Chris, it's all a world to ponder on now!

[Sami Khalil]

I once read that the forbidden apple was a metaphor for sexual act in paradise. It had that bitter sweet after-taste. The fact that Adam chose a woman over God to have unity with her and as such breaking the spiritual unity with God. In other words, he chose the physical which is temporary over the spiritual which is eternal. A very eye-openning write sir Mitchel.

[andrew mitchell]

I did wonder if adultery was a motivational figure in this plot. Thanks Sami.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! You are welcome.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

what an imagination you have, my friend.
the whole Garden of Eden thing mixed with myth...Milton overseeing the paradise...
kind of an insinuation that Adam might have blamed Eve for the whole apple thing.
But knowledge after the fact never saved the tree....and storms will crack the relationship.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you Jacob like many poets who follow my work and I respect, you of all have always gone the extra mile, regularly commenting on my ramblings and I thank you always for your support.