Friday, March 3, 2023

Poem: “Sin and Temptation” by: Emry Humphreys

Like ivy climbing you wrapped your cunning about

The tender bark of the forbidden tree

Luring into its shade the naked lout

To sow the seed of Death in Arcady:

And away you slid, exultant, happy, hot

To spread your sticky poison like a trap

To catch his progeny: like a glossy knot

That punished Laocoon and the two sons in his lap.

 

In the wilderness you whistled after Another

And tried to hold him in your bold intelligent stare

But you in turn were transfixed. It was our Savior

Who drew you to him, limp in the still air

Wound you around his body like a sculptured torque

To squeeze the poison from your lethal fork. 

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