Pandora haiku
She opened her box
The world filled it with itself
Ready for next time
Comments
Hi Dave,
I'm sad I got to this after it had been ably dissected! Maybe she should have "taken the money." But I suspect you are way too young for that particular reference!
Regards,
A.E.
Having thought about it some more, I think we are essentially in agreement over the meaning - you just have a different way of saying it.
LOL - I wish you hadn't told me! I prefer my version to the idea of a forgetful girl, periodically emptying her box. I think we were in agreement over what should be the meaning of line 2 though...
What I thought I meant (which may not be what the poem is about) is that Pandora got the troubles in her box from the world in the first place. When she periodically empties them out, she (being a forgetful girl) leaves the lid off and the world flows back in ready to marinate a stew of troubles for next time. Perhaps mysteriously morphing swine flu viruses into sub-prime mortgages or whatever. But if it means something else to someone else, good luck to 'em.
To me the second line says that everything that came out of the box in the myth, was already there in the world. The twist is that all those things filled the box, not visa versa.The last line for me is more puzzling. Are you saying that everything is cyclical, war, famine, sorrow - so we will be always searching for answers and looking for that key?
A successful Haiku in that it made me think and it isn't obvious.
I'm in complete fog. What I finally decided is too ridiculous, but - based on "'her' box" - maybe the female body opening to sexual intercourse and the resultant birth of a baby which personifies all things new/begun again? Do help me out here.
<Deleted User> (7073)
Thu 20th May 2010 14:41
Good stuff Dave, I can't write Haiku either, Loved the centre line. Thank you for your kind comment too.
TC
nice, Dave.. always struggle with haiku's myself but admire you for doing it..
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Cate Greenlees
Sat 22nd May 2010 21:19
Short sweet and clever!
Cate xx