Short Pandora Poems

This is what you DO
Avoid Pandora, trust NOT
Live life without HOPE,
Take heed the early GREEKS
Who forbear for fear of SIN...

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I 
see you
Na'vi say
on Pandora
sight














For Royal Trevino's contest My Favourite Movie 
Lanterne form...

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Pandora you said...
(Pandora you called me)
and I wonder if you knew 
that of all things set loose
Hope remained intact,
in the box full of evil things....

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Some rocks you don’t turn over
some tales you never tell

Some lights you never throw the switch
—some broth you never chill

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)...

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Oh, everybody should in spite of past 
mistakes and woes and tears and lonesome screaming 
discover once again Pandora's chest 
to free the Hope for our gloomy being....

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I tried to fade away today
wishing Pandora had left hope in the box
Fighting to lose
In the most perfect skin
meet the blemish
Hopeful that the next blink will be the last...

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Pandora,a lass with 'all gifts'
Let curiosity take her a step toofar,
When mankind's evil flew from her jar-
Only hope,inside,was to remain
Released,it's relief,to ease pain....

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Pandora has a big black box.
Woe the day she turns on FOX.
May she then begin again
and turn the switch to CNN,
or better still, to the BBC.
While hope remains
 all shadows flee....

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Under the volcano
over the moon
Polar infinities
birthing the doom

Hearing the thunder
minotaur’s freed
Wandering inside us
— killing the dream

(The New Room: July, 2024)
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Eve and Pandora 

          duped by curiosity 

           divine laws defied


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    Contest: First Poem of 2015
     Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A
               Placed: 2nd...

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You may conquer
on horseback
but to rule
must dismount
Pandora
lies waiting
new blood
for the fount

Napoleon
Attila
Augustus
afield
The vanquished
in chaos
till order
—congeals

(Dreamsleep: October, 2023)...

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Pandora,a lass with 'all gifts'
Let curiosity take her a step toofar,
When mankind's evil flew from her jar-
Only hope,inside,was to remain
Released,it's relief,to ease pain.


The myth of Prometheus/zeus/Pandora & her box...

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FOG   HORN

Almost imperceptible on the coast,
Pandora, lost but persistent,
Calls across the far river docks
For lock to open ashore

Calls like a brother ghost,
Far across time’s river sent
To unlock my memory box
And open its half-lost store....

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Hope...
Hope, left me
It is gone
Where did it go?

Pandora...
You lied to me
Hope will always be here
Well, what if hope is gone?

Please...
I want hope
Open the box
Can you put hope back?

Hope...
The box will open
And hope shall
Return home...

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God blitzed Sodom & Gomorrah
Including fauna & flora
Putin says, "Me, too!
I am just like you
Blasting that Box of Pandora!"  

n.b.  after blowing up their home
and family, Russian troops
tell survivors that they have
been liberated from the Nazis! ...

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There's been an awful lot of talk
about that box. I have some doubt,
I never saw you touch that lock.
There's been an awful lot talk.
It doesn't help that you should walk,
and leave me here to think about
an awful lot of ugly talk.
About that box, I have no doubt!...

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Through the fires of hell I walk
Unafraid, strong, and merciless
Casting Light Upon My Inner Self
Things I put on the highest shelf
Locked away, covered and forgotten
Just as Pandora made our world rotten
I opened them up, and I set free
The beast that I had kept within me...

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Pandora had her a monkey;
She kept it on a short chain.
It came down with pox;
She slammed shut her box,
And hoped not to see it again.

Some bad boys who wouldn’t wear socks
Were messing with Pandora’s box.
They got down, they got funky,
They let out the monkey,
And now there are pandemic talks....

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the day before her wedding
Pandora found her mother’s loony box
there were journals about her bi-polar condition
and her suicide plans.
We were glad she kept it silently locked
did not read it on that day
or any other day,
preferring to burn it unopened
after she had been married for fifty-six years....

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fuchsia rose was captured in the early sixteenth century
her legend was passed through many dynasties,
then storytellers got bored with her, and forgot her story
she waited for her chance; twinkling and dazzling newbies
enticing one to release her from her Pandora prison
the unlucky instigator of the pandemic...

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Pandora had a box so very ample
She put it out so everyone can see
Beware I say, you’re not allowed to sample
What lies inside is trouble, guaranteed

Do stay away from, though it’s very tempting
That box would make you rue the very day
Dire results if you would be attempting
Just turn around and go the other way...

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An absurd idea slipped from my head
That, in my dreams, would best be left for dead.
This chimeric charade turned global rage;
A mighty and monstrous meme for our age.

Perhaps someday the p.c. and the woke
Will finally be aware of my joke.
Too late to put back in Pandora’s box
I shrugged it off for some bagels and lox....

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Hiberty jiberty liberty lox.
Quivery livery shivery shin.
Naughty Pandora opened the box
And couldn't get all of the troubles back in.
                                                  
Oh, briars of evil and nettles of sin.
Gaggles of sorrow, and worries in flocks.
Quivery livery shivery shin,
Hiberty jiberty liberty lox....

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There's been an awful lot of talk 
about that box. I have some doubt,
I never saw you touch that lock.
There's been an awful lot of  talk. 
It does not help that you should walk,
and leave me here to think about 
an awful lot of ugly talk. 
About that box, I have no doubt!

Originally posted 09/16/21
Revised 08/22/2022
Checked with howmanysyllables.com...

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this is a line
see it incline
this is my mind
it is a line

this is a clock
see it strike shock
these numbers stop
tuck shop, tick-tock

this is a blade
hollow like a spade
clean plate, clean slate
just you wait

this is a box
those are his socks
count the hair locks
the axis stops

this is a picture
see every feature
tell us, teacher
is this the future?...

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