Serpent

These are poems about Adam and Eve, Satan aka Lucifer aka Mephistopheles, the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the forbidden fruit, "original sin," and the Fall and its bitter aftermath...

Eden
by Michael R. Burch

Then earth was heaven too, a perfect garden.
Apples burgeoned and shone—unplucked on sagging boughs.
What, then, would the children eat? 
Fruit indecently sweet, 
redolent as incense, with a tempting aroma...