LADY EVE: Poetry in Motion

 

If you haven't guessed I have a fascination with Eve, the mother of all women. She can be thanked for my desire to write and continue to learn about issues affecting women in life and especially religion. History has tainted the image of women and I will spend my life encouraging women to love and embrace womanhood. Keep an eye on my blog for upcoming published work availability. For now, enjoy one of my poems. I do not claim to be a POET. Just putting my feelings in a different style of writing expression.

LADY EVE 

by Dorothy Guyton 

Who were you this woman of creation, 

 That took a fall that fell a nation.

 Who were you to reach and take a bite, 

To open your eyes to now have sight. 

What made you draw close to that tree that was forbidden,

 What made you want to know all of the things God had hidden. 

 Tell me now the secret of your decision, 

Tell me the entire truth leave out the revision.

 Was it truly a snake in the garden on that day?

 Was it truly an animal that convinced you to stray? 

Could his beauty and supposedly velvety voice,

 Make you eat of the tree-entice your choice. 

 Why did you decide to share the wonder you unearthed? 

Why did you want to share deception you unconsciously birthed? 

Can you put into words that first day of discovery?

 Can you form a paragraph explaining your treachery? 

Man has composed sonnets, ballads and prose,

 To that one day in Eden when sin quickly arose. 

 Lady Eve, woman of beauty wisdom and charm, 

Did you believe your curious action would cause so much harm? 

Did you realize you sealed the fate of people yet to be born? 

Your life forever remembered with loathing, shame, and scorn.

 You hid yourself in bushes and covered yourself with leaves,

 And weaved a web of lies you hoped your Lord would believe.

 Gone are your blissful days of laughter, 

Your story was written without a happily ever after. 

Evicted in shame from a garden of ease,

 To pray for mercy daily on your humble bent knees.

 I wonder on the day of the birth of your son,

 Did you realize exactly what you had done? 

To secure the prize of knowledge and sight, 

You sacrificed the warmth and pleasure of daylight. 

For the haunted, seductive, delicious, destruction of sin,

 Would you make a different choice if confronted by the snake again?

 Lady Eve, my ancestor in a time by me unknown,

 Your actions on one day in history was a seed you should have never sown.

 Adam and you presiding over all of creation, 

Chose to disobey God with only slight hesitation. 

Today I say I forgive you for the curse of the pain of labor,

 If I faced what you faced in Eden, I could have well been your neighbor.

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Womanhood, sisterhood, motherhood

    Why are our young girls in relationships with men who have no intention of marrying them but willing to impregnate them? Why are these young girls spending hundreds of dollars on weave, nails, eyelashes, and seductive clothing? Why have so many young beautiful women become Twitter or Instagram famous being seductive, sexy, exposed? Why, once again for another year, are they hoping this is the year they find a man to treat them right?

    Why did I write When Will Eve Be Forgiven? Not to start a revolution, or movement, or for a call to feminism. I wrote it because one day while teaching a children's Bible school on the Garden of Eden, a 11 year old little girl said, "I hate women. they messed up the world!" And the little boys began agreeing saying how they hated girls that's all they do now is mess up everything just like Eve did in the garden. The little girl began to cry. The little boys laughed. The other little girls looked at me with eyes pleading to say women/girls are good. I had a WOW moment. I had to write a book for girls/women in the church and out of the church.

    How many more little girls in Sunday school classes have felt this way before? It's like Critical Race Theory making white children/adults uncomfortable now and being protested against as HATE history. But who is protesting women being belittled in the church? I wondered how have those shamed church girls blossomed and matured into church women and how have church mother's explained womanhood to their little girls when they were ashamed to be associated with Eve, the cause of the fall of man; humanity. So I researched and wrote my book for all those little girls and little girls who became women and mothers.

    Today I ask a favor of you and thank you in advance for your participation. Imagine the little girl I spoke about above was your teary-eyed daughter saying she was ashamed of being a female and what you would say to comfort her. As you draw on the right words to say I want to show you the adjectives the book of Proverbs in the Bible uses to describe women form my book Chapter 1:

adulterous, aged, angry, bad, beautiful, brawling, careless, chaste, clamorous, comely, compassionate, complacent, contentious, deceitful, devout, diligent, discreet, dishonest, domestic, drunken, elect, evil, fainthearted, fair, faithful, foolish, foreign, fretful, glorious, godly, good, gracious, grave, great, haughty, high-principled, holy, honest, honorable, impudent, indiscreet, jealous, kind, loose, loving, obedient, odious, outlandish, peevish, peaceable, pitiful, prudent, quarrelsome, reverent, righteous, sensible, serious, shamefaced, shameless, silent, silly, simple, sober, steady, strange, submissive, subtle, temperate, trustworthy, unloved, virtuous, wayward, weak, wealthy, whorish, wicked, wily, worthy, and young.

CONFUSED?

    How are our daughters to form a healthy identity as a woman in the church? How have you and how will you help your children, girls and boys, have a healthy understanding about women in the Bible and in the world? Are we as women just leaving our daughter's self-esteem to chance? What is your response to womanhood depicted in the Bible? 

    It is understandable why men treat women with disregard as well as why young ladies are treating themselves with disregard. We have dropped the ball on a healthy definition and demonstration of womanhood pointing the finger calling men dogs. My book in all humility tries to change this dynamic for all women. Sister, fix your crown. Once again thank you for your comments and feedback.

When Will Eve Be Forgiven? is available on amazon.com 

When Will Eve Be Forgiven?

 

Available on amazon.com 

    So many people begin a new year by saying they are going to be a new person, especially women/mothers. Self-care is at the top of their "to do" list. Self-care consists of putting themselves first, taking time to relax, and just making sure they are not burning the candle at both ends. I say congratulation. Loving yourself and taking care of yourself allows you to love and take care of others. But most women are carrying ONE particular burden in their 'baggage' they carry into their daily life and relationships and that burden is SHAME.

    Women have been told since the dawn of time how they ruined the lives of every human being in the world. I know you are puzzled by now wondering what I'm referring to, read these quotes from some early church leaders about women:

"Women are a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and painful ills (Chrysostom)." [Women] are the gateway to hell (Tertullian)." Women do not have a soul and do not belong to the human race, as shown by many passages of the Holy Scripture (Valentius Acidalius)." 

    Wow right? Because Eve took a bite of the apple in the garden of Eden, women have been held accountable for the sinning of the world. We are called the 'weaker' sex, men are told we can't be trusted, we are called seducers, and not intelligent. Our position in home and church has been diminished and we are made to feel guilty at every turn in our lives.

    Well, it's 2022 and it's time we get rid of the guilt and shame of Mother Eve and know our worth/value as God intended for us. My book When Will Eve Be Forgiven? will clarify how God feels about and defines women in Scripture (not men), why the Apostle Paul is not a male chauvinist as many women believe, and why women should forgive themselves first instead of relying on others to establish their self-worth within the Christian community.

    As men voice their dissatisfaction of women being able to say "no" to traditional sex roles, seek higher education, reject unhappy marriages, and as the Pope says, "buy a pet instead of have children" my book encourages women in the choices in their lives. Women who are doing self-care and deciding what works for them in their lives are accused of be 'feminists' or' man haters'. NOT TRUE.

    Ground yourself in your womanhood. Understand your own worldview of what being a woman means to you using my book as a resource for inspiration and understanding. My book will be a legacy book passed from one generation of mothers to their daughters to their granddaughters. You will be empowered.

    My book is not a book of revolution but a book of evolution of self. Eve may have been responsible for the ORIGINAL sin, but women are not a SIN by nature no more so than men. I hope you will find many surprising truths within the pages of my book all backed and explained in depth. Women are wonderful, exquisite creations. Step into this new year with your heads held high. With so many single parent (women) households, women should support each other in any way possible. My book is my way of supporting and encouraging   women in their daily lives. I want to build you up not tear you down. We are in this together.

    I hope you will enjoy this fascinating book and encourage others to read it. You will not be disappointed. Men, this is also a great read for you and your sons as you try to understand the female mind. As fathers, raising the future generation, fatherhood will not be complete without a working knowledge of womanhood.

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