Thursday, July 16, 2026

Eden Gardens

 


A reflective poem on Eden, temptation, reason, and the quiet burden of choosing rightly when temptation comes unguarded.


Eden Gardens


Gardening, they say, began in Eden.
Is that what made me part of you? she asked.
Not the garden—temptation shaped our world.
A single fruit altered perfection.
Rational yields to temptation too soon.
Act for yourself. Apples bear no thorns.

“Gardening is not a rational act.”

Margaret Atwood

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