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Best Pandora's Box Poems

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Pandoras Box
PANDORA’S BOX

A dull tarnished box was found out amongst the rubbish.
No one knew how it had got there; it could have been lost or stolen,
but...

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Categories: pandora's box, dream, fantasy, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Pandoras Box
Do you always get burned
When you play with fire?
Must you always 
Extinguish your desire?

Not to open Pandora’s box
Yet gave the key for me unlock.

You cleaver...

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Categories: pandora's box, confusion, girlfriend-boyfriend, love
Form: Free verse
Pandoras Box
changing the rules
changing realities
listing the rules
color coded names and numbers
take me away replace the whole charade
never mention it
and cash it all in for a trade
worry...

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Categories: pandora's box, confusionme, magic, me,
Form: Free verse
Pandoras Box
PANDORAS BOX

To have the power of the gods doesn’t mean you should play God
Some things are better left the way they are; don’t wake the...

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Categories: pandora's box, abuse, conflict, confusion, sorrow,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: pandora's box, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Jealous God
Wodon gave them song and verse
Promethius gave them fire
Dionysius gave them wine and games
Orpheus played the lyre
Atlas held the world aloft
Fenrir consumed it whole
Ceres gave...

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Categories: pandora's box, bible, conflict, creation, fantasy,
Form: Quatrain
{.......Doors......}
You slowly open the door
...."These doors"....
And what is behind them
Quickly leaps out
Trying to take hold
An invitation
Toward the unknown....
The battle begins
Begins, for it's control!
Pandoras box
The forbidden...

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Categories: pandora's box, history, life, people
Form: I do not know?
Pandora's Box
Pandoras box 
Filled with unimaginable doom
And unprecedented gloom
Pandoras box
A little box of grief and unendless tears 
Bringing perpetual pain to the inquisitive 
As they sought...

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Categories: pandora's box, scary,
Form: Verse
Crooked Cross
You pried your way deep into their pain and into their pockets
With wickedness and words you popped the lock and opened up Pandoras box
Fueled by...

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Categories: pandora's box, bible, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Mind Control
we sing and dance and write
cornered this way
mercy of lies
mercy for the liars
believe me when i say it
i sing and dance to break a leg
break...

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Categories: pandora's box, historydance, dance, me,
Form: Free verse
The Girl With Red Hair, Freckles and An Upturned Nose
I met a girl once; more like noticed her I have to admit.
A girl with red hair, freckles and an upturned nose.
The girl with red...

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Categories: pandora's box, death, love, mother, mother
Form: Free verse
Pictures
Pictures ruined me.
Searching for stuff 
that weren't supposed to be found.
The things I could do.
I'm ghosting, because my ID keeps changing.
I opened the pandoras box
and...

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© Lana Lana  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pandora's box, mystery,
Form: I do not know?
This Side of Bad
right in front of me
whispering to me
taking so quietly
her breath catches
this picture if beauty
with 20 more pounds 
anyways

she comes back in
and the way she looks...

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Categories: pandora's box,
Form: I do not know?
Pandora's a Friend of Mine
It seems I can't forgive myself
For chasing Alices' rabbit
I slipped and fell in the wishing well
And started a life long habit

I want everything-I want you
I'll...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pandora's box, lost lovebeautiful, beautiful, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
Never Again
I got myself into a bit of a pickle, 
but there was parts of me that felt tickled, 
I fell down a hole like Alice...

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Categories: pandora's box, anxiety, memory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things