Pandora's Predickament

satire, tongue in cheek (mostly) ;-)

Pandora; created as a punishment to mankind

beautifully evil,  she was created from clay

Aphrodite adorned her with perfect feminity

Athena taught her crafts to keep her busy

Orders from Zeus to Hermes stated he teach her deceit

to be stubborn and curious as the most zealous of women

They bestowed her with a pithos, filled with special gifts

yet forbidden to open it for any reason, on any occasion

As you know, the story goes, she opened the box~

 evil and illness spewed forth with a vengeance

The moral:  man nor gods can expect to bestow upon woman a box...

 fill it with evil and expect there be

 peace on earth.

Reviews

[Baby Ricochet]

Pandora's one of the old tales I tell girls on first dates. So is Adonis, Narcissus and Echo, Eros and Psyche, Demeter, Hades and Persephone, Aries and Aphrodite, Dionysus and several other myths I can mix and match. As long as their romantic everyone's entertained. Beats the crap out of bitching about work

[Frieda P]

You sly dog.... ;-)

[Blue Ivory]

Haha! This one's awesome :P I'm gonna share it with people. The first part had my attention, with the way you told the story, and the last part was the best

[KAOlmsted]

Femininity ;-) Just saying...

I always shake in my boots when Baby is the featured review...shake rattle and roll and when the mood strikes knife a hobo...

What??

;-) Just saying...

[Paul Seaman]

atleast there is Hope ! The Vipers that escaped the box are the tools we use to hone and perfect our souls.

[Frieda P]

Actually 'hope' was the last thing left at the bottom of the box supposedly...figures it'd be last...thanks for reading.

[Emerald Seas]

Oh, I do like this one, too! Ah, if you'd only been around bout a year ago when I wrote of my own Pandora box. That poem is staying in the vault!
Love your take on the old story wonderfully penned :)

[Frieda P]

We need to talk ;-)

[Tarry Franck]

Great job - way to go

[Frieda P]

Glad you enjoyed Tarry...

[Tarry Franck]

My pleasure

[kublakhan27]

You took the words out of my mouth with your moral haha As Cohen said, there are no chocolates in the boxes anymore...

[Frieda P]

*faint* ;-P

[kublakhan27]

Haha that song (Diamonds In The Mine) is hilarious ;p

[Michael G.]

Great poem. Great ending. Thought-full moral.

[Frieda P]

Glad you enjoyed it Mike.

[emmajoy]

If it hadn't been a box, might have been a crate .. and what then! Love your writes, seems you have special compensation from the gods of poetry, always a goodie at hand, knee or bumpsy daisy, Frieda. Don't know how you do it. There's a great deal more than a post about Pandora here: a touch or three of ancient history, attitude of mind and, I rather think, a grin or three! Wonderful!

[Frieda P]

Haha Emma, that would have been an entirely different write I guess, I shudder to think. Love your review, thanks so much, and yes, a few grins were sparked in the making of this one. ;-)

[emmajoy]

My pleasure. Just corrected my awful English, however - 'Emma would do better if she concentrated more!' :)

[SimpleMind]

Very well done! I had fun reading this one, while imagining the faces of the gods bestowing all the graces..! A wonderful write!

[Frieda P]

I'm so tickled you did SM. I can't call you by name, because you're anything but! Glad you enjoyed it...

[SimpleMind]

Oh~ I didn't know my name sounds a bit awkward haha

Btw, when I re-read this one, it suddenly seemed like reality. Women..they're God's medium in giving his gift, that's why they're special. But women, they're very hard to fathom sometimes and they can be the deadliest animal ever walking on earth.

:) Just a thought though