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Earth once housed many spirits so the Gods worked out a plan. They would trap them in a box where they couldn't torment Man. The box was placed with a boy who's told not to open it. And not knowing what it held didn’t bother him a bit. A girl's chosen for his wife her beauty being unmatched. But when she’s told of the box a plot was secretly hatched. Pandora betrayed the Gods her curiosity won. For she thought one peek can't hurt she'll close it soon as she's done. But when the lid was opened pain and disease where set free. And before she could close it they had spread from sea to sea. In the bottom of the box hope was the last spirit freed. And its release allowed Man to gain comfort from her deed.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 5/26/2018 8:59:00 PM
Well penned, Emile.
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Date: 10/4/2017 11:37:00 AM
Wonderful poem of mythological inspiration in a laudable/amazing quatrain. Yes, hope is our consolation, and first step for great changes in statu nascendi. Well done work proving mach talent and a prodigious pen. The only justified philosophy (and Ethics) is based on Hope -as a thinker like Adorno observed in his last aphorism of Minima Moralia. Best regards.
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Emile Pinet
Date: 10/4/2017 12:02:00 PM
Thank you so much Ovidiu, your comments and support are greatly appreciated my friend, Emile.

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