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Premium Member Translation of Canto Xvi Hell By Dante
Already I reached the place where heard the sound
Of falling water in the circle next
Suchlike the rumble done by hives around,

When three spirits together changed their treks,
Running, out of  an horde just passing there
Under the rain and of their pains effects.

Came towards us, each...

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Categories: dante, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Dante' Rossetti
Rossetti, master painter - poet.
   His works inspired by the Bible
       and classic literature.
            Oils of jewel tones
        ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dante, art, , literature,
Form: Nonet
Dante Alighieri
He felt his heart awaken
When he saw Beatrice
Coming towards him
One verse was pursuing another verse-
One bliss was pursuing another bliss,
Mysterious like a moon kiss
The sky above Florence was so bright
While his star was dancing every night...

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Categories: dante, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



To Dante Alighieri
TO DANTE ALIGHIERI                                          ...

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Categories: dante, inspirational, love, on writing
Form: Heroic Couplet
Dante Reed Jr
What do they want to know 
About me?
I'm fun loving, charismatic
A strong Leader 
Who's Diplomatic 
Never ask for much 
I handle mines
By any "means" 
I Can read between the lines 
I'm the one people Love
I'm the flower that rose "above"
Concrete 
I mastered streets
I made it...

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Categories: dante, age, america, angel, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante
Deep the Divine Comedy here,
Adjust your gaze and find the way;
Note footsteps fine that seek paths clear,
Trials in a maze through night and day,
Echo lost souls in wayward chimes.
Attend to signs in fiery space;
Look to unfold means in vague rhymes,
Indulge in kind passage and grace;
Glimpses...

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Categories: dante, blessing,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member 700 Years - Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy written by the famous, Dante Alighieri
A writer, a poet, and a philosopher with his own theory
Still hard to understand after 700 years
Listening to it in Italian brings tears to your eyes, that’s clear.

It took thirteen long years to complete
As you read about his...

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Categories: dante, love, poems, poets,
Form: Clerihew
Dante the Daring Feline
High upon the fridge was he.
A handsome ebony cat hides secretly.
He awaits the perfect prey.
Dante lays with one eye open all day.
His dark fur hiding him in the shadows atop the fridge ,no one dare see!
Swoosh opens the front door and in comes a fly....

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Categories: dante, animal, cat, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Dante Alighieri
Life is a divine commedy
Rarely is it Paradise
Sometimes it can seem like Purgatory
But mostly it appears to be an Inferno.

I am not yet halfway along my life's path
But I have already abandoned all hope.
Assailed by wild beasts
I wonder......

Will I ever be recognised
As a great man?
Like...

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Categories: dante, angst
Form: Free verse
Dante
She was, existed, amongst other women, for love’s sake

When my eye caught her sight, my spirits left

This corpse of mine: soul theft

My remains, were shaking, trembling: earthquake

 

My soul looked down upon my flesh quite rotten

My hand begged for support from a wall

Beatrice the loveliest...

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Categories: dante, senses,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Tale of Dark Angels

                           Expectations high did not pan out            ...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dante, angel, anger, angst, character,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Temporal Dilettante Journalist
Temporal Dilettante Journalist 
David J Walker

no-thing need not name the nameless 
breaks the morning in disguise 
shakes the shame and wakes the shameless 
quench tormented turbid eyes 
the bootless errand realized 

who shakes the hand but shuns the banquet 
a polymath of nullity
a picnic spread...

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Categories: dante, allegory, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Creature of Doom
What creature is this that cometh near
His luggage filled to the brim with fear
Crushing our lives, crushing our beliefs
O whence for me shall bring only griefs
What of the men whom now weep?
What of the woman buried alive in their sleep?
What of the children who once...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dante, children, dark, death, fear,
Form: Lyric
Beattitudes
One dark and stormy night, when half my life lay behind me ?I wandered from the straight and narrow path too far.
And took my heart for a  ship’s compass
All through the darkness, I followed no course, no path but my own.  ?
With only...

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Categories: dante, introspection, night, truth,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Ginsberg Writes the F Word
Ginsberg Writes the F- WORD

 FALLEN GINSBERG COINS “” INTO POETRY,
Our college creative-writing professor
Announced in 1972,  to our class of hippie poets, 
Like me, who didn’t quite see
The big deal, because we were establishing 
That outrage into every sentence of all
Conversations spoken across the...

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Categories: dante, future, history, poetry, political,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry