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Poetic Form: Ode
Inspired: 2024 March 29
Image: Dante's Hell by The Paris Review

The Paris Review - Recapping Dante: Canto 32, or Area Man Discovers Hell  Has Literally Frozen Over - The Paris Review
I knowest there'd be rime aplenty, forthwith I see frozed sea of many unlearned sorts who'd unread apiece of Dante's acclaimed centerpiece for had they'd all, with certainty ... read, be fire and brimstone, nay hoarfrost instead. I cometh ere thee, by the powers that be, for one lost soul, numbered among thy frozed sea, oh there'd be rhymes, and yes there'd be reasons much too many, for alone, will tax the seasons, but you see ... there's been a request ... a simple plea, and as you've deduced by my presence, all three agreed, so let's be quick about it, and let's naught dawdle let's naught keep 'um-waitin', lest your place be a puddle, say what? what? say it again, what did you say my dear old friend? you wish naught to partake and attend, you wish to retire and put to an end, all of that, say you, discern no ... perceive yon thoughts fear now, oh my, it'll be an inferno, all melts and they'll burn, like you ... it will be ... eternal. why waste time for it'll be well spent, and prompts said post ere be no dent, the course was made as they were meant, I fear the change from their intents, will only conspire, brimstone and fire, and that will align his true desire, bring back the pit of Hell that inspires, and lead us naught in league with temptation, woe afeared befallen depths of damnation, if a rose blossomed where had been a carnation, would a bee sting upon said skin turn shiny be seen as an attraction? OH woe Ismay, Titanic, it be ... OH, hello you three ...

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Date: 3/30/2024 4:03:00 PM
I read Dante's work decades ago when I was in college...at that time, I was terribly impatient and even annoyed with the assignment. Your words, however, were captivating. I liked: "I fear the change from their intents, will only conspire, brimstone and fire, If this is for the 'ode' contest, best wishes with it. Have a splendid evening, Sara
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Date: 3/30/2024 5:15:00 PM
You mostly hit my newbies but I do not know about an ode contest--I'll check after--I'm writing another ode, a bit intense and this one came to me as an interim/interruption from the other, which you've read or will read, it'll address my meaning of intense, Aloha, and thanks, William

Book: Shattered Sighs