Eve

[Jerrybaldy]

Our tongues meet in your mouth,
like once excited friends.
I leave to line your lips,
to suck your nose
to lick your eyes,
sticky shut.
My blade adores
your navel,
deeper, circular.
I am getting more
into you.
I pluck your bloody knot,
a sick cherry,
untying your
cord.
I present you
to the believers,
to the brethnen,
as Eve.

[weltanschauung]

lilith?

[hillwalker]

There's something extremely erotic about the way you have presented this image of Eve (being ravished? or tempted? not sure).
I got the feeling this was the devil's work - but it could just as easily have been Eve herself addressing the apple....

I should probably give up on trying to decypher this any further - let's just say I enjoyed reading it, it's a great poem and it's certainly one of your more enigmatic ones

H

[PrinceMyshkin]

I confess I never got completely over the enigma of the opening "our tongues" in "your mouth" but nevertheless I admired the elegiac mystery of this.

[Jerrybaldy]

Thank you Welt, Hill and Prince.
It was inspired by the kind of drivel I quote below :)

Did Adam have a belly-button? I believe we really have an answer to that, and we can say, 'No — Adam didn't. Neither did Eve.'

Why? Because your belly-button (navel), or tummy-button as it's sometimes called, is a sign that you were once attached to your mother. You depended on that life-line — the umbilical cord — for your nourishment from her body as you developed inside her.

But our first parents, Adam and Eve, didn't develop that way. I believe that God would not have planted on them a false indication that they had developed in a mother's womb.

[Delta40]

Dare I suggest they have a belly button because (drum roll) God is a WOMAN!!!!

[Jerrybaldy]

Judging by the mess we are all in that may well be true ... ;)

[Delta40]

The question is - do you have a belly button or are you a hitchhiker on the Tardis?

[Haunted]

I was starving for a new Jerry poem, no pun intended. Very sensual, I'm seeing Eve as the symbol of an ideal woman. The way you curl your words around her belly button like a tongue, it's very erotic, show great skill. Great one here.