Pandora's Gift
Prometey rejects Pandora’s gift -- Pandora's box with diseases, vices and disasters.
(Engraving on bronze, 2-3 B.C. Musee de Louvre, Paris)
Pandora’s Gift
Bearing Pandora’s gift prominently on her heart
Seared by Vulcan’s reddened, blazing, branding iron
She wore the scars of self-doubt
Her battle coat stained, shredded
By the beak of the very falcon
Who relentlessly clawed, pecked at Prometheus
Vulnerable, chained,
She stood defiant
Until the raven came
Bearing the self-sowing seeds of self-confidence
posted by Heather Blakey @ 5:09 PM
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2 Comments:
I just love this - the etching is perfectly true.
I so often see Pandora's box, its lid wide open
that it is good to see that refusal and be reminded that we can still toss some of those items back into place.
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