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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".

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”

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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?

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!”

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)

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"

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

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

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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)

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

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.