Short Alighieri Poems

Dante Alighieri
Wrote a poem quite scary.
But all ended well.
After a descent through hell....

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surely
as i was
going to hell

i must have
skipped
a level

where the boiling
was maybe six
minutes or

a little more
Alighieri
don't you

like 
your
pasta

to 
be al
dante...

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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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Here’s a flash of infernal news
that will no condemned soul amuse.
Tortures long in practice but antiquated
have now all been newly updated.
The mastermind and torturer? Who else
but the master Dante Alighieri himself
and who well beyond a bungling apprentice
proved he was the master of his practice....

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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 'The Supreme Poet'
Shining like a bright star....

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„Per me si va nella città dolente…”
Dante Alighieri

You haven’t forgotten
you won’t forget…
In ices is swelling
the river again and trawling
roots and weeds,
and foam.
It leaves the shores bent,
mirrors,
swamps and frost.
But on the day
it kindles a glow.
With movements
spiral of
the hands,
I’m folding the air
after the beasts –
to that one threshold
(what does it say
no, I don’t know.

And the death ones leave....

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