Best Dante Poems
Below are the all-time best Dante poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dante poems written by PoetrySoup members
Translation of Canto XVI Hell by DanteAlready 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...
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Categories:
dante, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's PathOh seed of Dante, dost thy path
in mid-life's turning gone astray
upon a sylvan darkness hath
to tread a rut with feet of clay?
Wast thou that youth...
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Categories:
dante, spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
The Holy Dust of Creation's Seed SownThe Holy Dust of Creation’s Seed Sown
Born from this ancient dust of creation's seed sown now so true,
Whilst sparkling inside a mystical divine light on...
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Categories:
dante, creation, god, heaven, love,
Form:
Terza Rima
Dante's Divina Commedia translationThe difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest...
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Categories:
dante, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
VeroniquePardon ma'am, but I noticed you've been staring at this painting for a while
She is beautiful but has such a melancholy face, it's hard to...
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Categories:
dante, heartbroken, woman,
Form:
Narrative
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll...
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Categories:
dante, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
Categories:
dante, allegory, identity, loneliness,
Form:
Haibun
The Holy Dust of Creation's Seed SownBorn from this ancient dust of creation's seed sown now so true,
Whilst sparkling inside a mystical divine light on this dark night,
I’m nourished from the...
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Categories:
dante, creation, god, heaven, love,
Form:
Terza Rima
Another Year of GraceWith John Wayne snarling at me
from the television screen,
I quickly glance at my watch;
five minutes to the end
of a year’s journey through
what the Psalmist...
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Categories:
dante, philosophy, religious,
Form:
Free verse
nastay'aschi mrakDedicated to Robert Lindley
He is a singer of the dark. This dark
made of the blood he shed over a rhyme;
of the hell's cavities that...
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Categories:
dante, dark, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh, My Beloved "From deep within my heart I always catch
the scent of my Beloved. How can I help but follow that fragrance?"
...
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Categories:
dante, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Pink Pink Pink "Pink Pink Pink"
Cathy and I were fair feathered friends
two femme fatales with similar blends
lying...
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Categories:
dante, sad, christmas, for her,
Form:
Rhyme
dante's divine comedy first canto translationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very...
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Categories:
dante, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Ecstatic Calliope
"Here rise to life again, dead poetry!
Let it, O holy Muses, for I am yours,
And here Calliope, strike a higher key,
Accompanying my song with that...
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Categories:
dante, freedom, identity, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divine Comedy Hell translation Canto VII(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)
Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any...
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Categories:
dante, fantasy, universe,
Form:
Terza Rima
THE IMMIGRANT'S CRYTHE IMMIGRANT'S CRY
They refuse to let me in.
Say its normal to be left out
That I should not protest e'en when no way I see.
Because...
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Categories:
dante, freedom, humanity, immigration, war,
Form:
Free verse
AutumnIn this story the leaves are digressing,
In another, perhaps I shall too
With warm feelings and autumn shades tinting my view
We go along the path at...
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Categories:
dante, seasonsautumn, autumn, , literature,
Form:
Free verse
About the Hell's translationSoupers might have noticed that from about one year I am going on in translating Dante's Hell in english with rhymes. Why I am doing...
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Categories:
dante, poetry,
Form:
Prose
Pom-pom man
Glimpses I caught between the swishing traffic
on that sidewalk in cold rain and colder wind
and a cast-off Cleveland Browns windbreaker: a man
tottering...
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Categories:
dante, imagination, visionary,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Contemporary Ode To A Mother Crying Out To Her Children--2015 Contemporary Ode To A Mother Crying Out
...
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Categories:
dante, africa, allegory, analogy, black
Form:
Ode
The Invisible AfflictionThere's an assumption that torment
was invented by Dante for his Inferno,
it's actually a kind of obsession that
we ourselves battle with like Othello!
Some of us show...
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Categories:
dante, anger, destiny, hilarious, image,
Form:
Rhyme
NEWS
Evening colours
Cast deeper shades;
Moonlight nocturne
~~~~~~~~~
Sitcom drama
Good guy, bag guy;
Gangster hero
~~~~~~~~~
Pen and paper
Doodle ideas;
Birthday party menu
~~~~~~~~~
May oozes away
Finite days gone;
Scent of June waltzes
~~~~~~~~~
Kitchen bench
Ripe bananas wait;
Hunger...
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Categories:
dante, change,
Form:
Haiku
The Last Supper of Hope
The Last Supper of Hope
Grief has exhausted itself
And pain has abandoned the heart;
Emptiness now lives where joy
Once called home.
Our streets have become cisterns
Of blood—death quenching...
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Categories:
dante, allegory, analogy, black african
Form:
Prose Poetry
IN THE FIRED FURNACE OF CALI IN THE FIRED FURNACE OF CALI
(APROPOS THE ANNUAL RUNNING OF FIRE AND MUD)
Roaring radiant raging...
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Categories:
dante, earth, fire, grief, memory,
Form:
Alliteration
Dance of the Black Flame
It was the most unnatural fire
rising from the ancient pit of souls
It ascended from the deepest abyss
Flickering images of unspeakable woes
To say it was not...
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Categories:
dante, fear, horror, science fiction,
Form:
Dramatic Verse