Dante Poems

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 stood brave?
Their minds controlled their souls enslaved

The baneful trumpets sound

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 first love, Beatrice Portinari, so sweet
Went to her grave with

A Nod to Dante's Inferno

A nod to Dante’s Inferno


First: Home to unbaptized and the self-righteous
Retirement home of the afterlife 
Aristotle, is there, in his own way, pious
So, deep talks, CSPAN, and not much strife

Second: The final home of the lecherous 
Anyone controlled by their own hormones
Cleopatra, Helen is there, so adulterous
And, reality tv stars calls it their home 

Third:

DANTE TRANSLATIONS

DANTE TRANSLATIONS

Little sparks may ignite great Infernos.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

In Beatrice I beheld the outer boundaries of blessedness.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

She made my veins and even the pulses within them tremble.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Her sweetness left me intoxicated.—Dante, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Love commands me

A Tale of Dark Angels

                           Expectations high did not pan out                      

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 on follies blanket 
the argot of a fervent plea
omnifarious frivolity

dante

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. 
He awakens spotting the intruder with his one open eye.
A

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 of all

Somewhat cruel. She laughed, at my meat forgotten

 

Then

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 world; 
That (I hadn’t even known)  it was banned

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 unlimited darkness before me
Above that darkness, there was no guiding

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 out 
without A chance of defeat 
You may trap my

Dante' Rossetti

Rossetti, master painter - poet.
   His works inspired by the Bible
       and classic literature.
            Oils of jewel tones
                 suffuse his

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 of hope where faith knows best,
Hell fire enroute purgatory;
Induce the

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 one shouting despair:
“Stop here you who by behavior look
One not

To Dante Alighieri

TO DANTE ALIGHIERI                                                    

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