LIMERICK

david birkett · Post by **david birkett** » Wed May 09, 2007 6:09 pm

Said Adam to Eve: "I'm beguiled;
With sorrow my visage is piled.
In a flash of despair
I have just grown aware
That I never shall have been a child".

blonde madonna · Post by **blonde madonna** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:04 am

Said Eve to Adam: “I’m blamed
and I shall forever be shamed
I took a serpent’s word
then fell on my own sword
But I maintain I was framed”

BoHo · Post by **BoHo** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:59 am

blonde madonna · Post by **blonde madonna** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:20 am

BoHo
See above, I took the option of editing (including my immodesty) and confused the thread.
I like yours better (my first thought too). I also thought rib but didn't get far.

Perhaps now we could hear it for the snake?

DBCohen · Post by **DBCohen** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:50 am

I don’t think I can match your efforts, especially yours, David, but I felt I had to rise to the challenge, so I’ve given it a try:

Said Eve to the snake: “Pray do tell,
Will it really work out such a spell?”
He hissed back at her:
“You’ll know you are bare
But imagine now wearing Chanel!”

Alan Alda · Post by **Alan Alda** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:30 am

There lived a snake in an apple tree
"Come eat," he cried, "you can surely trust me!"
Eve was bored
and bit the core
So if you've ever worn clothes, thank She.

Laurie
(not as fun as I'd hoped)

david birkett · Post by **david birkett** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:58 am

Said the snake after all - "You are goin'
To feel there is gratitude owin'
To me, as you'll see
Thanks to Will that is Free,
You'll eventually have Leonard Cohen"

Sherry · Post by **Sherry** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:00 pm

I hope you don't mind if I jump in too.

“Partake,” whisssssspered the serpent to Eve.
My wordssssss you can truly believe.
Your man is a child
With this fruit he’ll be wild
“You know I would never deccccceive.”

Sherry

david birkett · Post by **david birkett** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:32 pm

As the great Twain observed:

Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

Anyone know a publisher who is desperate to produce a book of silly religious limericks?

Doesn't hurt to ask.

David

x

DBCohen · Post by **DBCohen** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:35 pm

Touché, David, twice over, both for contents and for keeping the meter and rhyming in both your limericks. I wish I could come up with an adequate response, but as this is not my native language, it’s not easy.

I don’t know of such a publisher you're looking for, but I hope you can find one. And I also hope that some day the mystery will be solved: how did the biblical “fruit” become an “apple”? (Some speculations are mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_th ... f_the_tree)

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu May 10, 2007 4:52 pm

Idea

:

It was the first tree that G~d created, so being a fruit-bearing one, the apple was the only food item available. I like the idea of Adam's having eaten the snake, instead

. Twain was absolutely right.

Okay... now, I'll go read Wikipedia for some serious thoughts .

Sherry ~ I also like yours and your hsssssssses, too !

By the way, David, couldn't ask for a better punchline from the snake's say .

~ Lizzy

Byron · Post by **Byron** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:46 am

A serpent who lived in an orchard
was happy' til things became awkward
a couple moved in
minus original sin
until the serpent gave her one.

oops. Albert and I apologies for any distress caused in this inuending missive.

LIMERICK

LIMERICK

Whither thou aceth

The Snake's not Inconsiderable Justification

At a tangent to the creation of limericks