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1. Bereisheet/In the beginning
From chaos began the creation,
Each flora and fauna its station.
The water and sky,
The earth they wind by,
Last Adam, who had to be patient.
2.
How, God-knows, some processes start.
Dew-mist and sweet rain played their part.
Gahn Eiden's lush grown,
Beasts named. Man's alone:
A helpmeet for Adam seemed smart.
3.
Paradise. A serpent got loose
And gave the first woman a goose.
"All knowing you'll be;
Just eat from this tree."
Eve's blamed when they're nabbed for the ruse.
4.
Of two brothers' gifts, one was druthered.
No matter how well they were mothered,
Cain did poor Abel in,
And was marked for his sin.
Then Adam and Eve had another.
About the author
Rhonda Rosenheck holds a BA in English Literature and Rhetoric from Binghamton University and an MEd in Jewish Education from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She studied at Hebrew College in Newton, MA, completed a graduate fellowship at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and studied Applied Linguistics in a Master's Program at Nova Southeastern University.Rhonda's publications include a poetry chapbook titled Looking: Out, Up, In & Under Rocks (Elephant Tree House Press 2018), a self-published chapbook entitled Sin No More! A Biblical Sea Shanty (2020) and an illustrated book of humor titled Yiddische Yoga: OYsanas for Every Generation (ill., Dana Toons, Ben Yehuda Press, 2016). Retired from religious educational leadership and again from a copyediting business, Rhonda writes and operates a writer's retreat near the Mohawk River. She lives just outside Albany, NY.
