Short Dante Poems

Visiting my face 
A monster-angel
Leads me the way to Dante....

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

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Rossetti Dante Gabriel
as both painter/poet rings a bell
But upon him morbity did sit
witness his 'Orchard Pit'...

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Rosetti forename Dante Gabriel
knew the tenets of PRB so well
His interest though was short-lived
love of his models never did...

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The 'I am' Giotto of Poliziano
a monument to the artist ego
He claimed his art equalled poet Dante
only recitation & contemplation can say...

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D-edication
A-pplies
N-ame
T-o
E-mploy

B-irthday
R-emembrance
U-sing
L-ines

Topic: Birthday of Bro. Dante Brul (December 20) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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F-ine
E-xpression
L-ets
I-ts
X factor

D-enote
A-crostic
N-ame
T-ill
E-xcellent

B-rilliant
R-eader
U-nderstands
L-ine

Topic: Birthday of Felix Dante C. Brul (April 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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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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D-evotion
A-pplies
N-uptial
T-houghts
E-mploying

&

M-atrimony's
Y-early
R-emembrance
A-s

C-ouple
I-s
L-etting
L-ove
A-ssure
N-ice
O-ccasion

Topic: Anniversary of Dante & Myra Cillano (April 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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                      Rodin
                      Rodin
         Dante inspired that kiss

               The truth be told
             half this earth has
                felt those soft
                       yet
               lamentable lips...

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F-or
E-very
L-ife on earth, 
I-t's a long road, 
X-factor is the help of the true God.

D-epend not on the strength of the human, 
A-im to trust God, 
N-ever fail
T-ill the
E-nd.

Topic: Birthday and Graduation of Felix Dante Brul (April 25) 
Form: Acrostic Tetractys...

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The talented Christina Rossetti
wrote carols and much poetry.
Married love elluded her,I'm afraid,
the poor lass dying as a spinster maid

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
a Victorian pre - raphelite ,you see,
with his true love,buried his poetry
but later ....could not let them be....

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti famed for his femme fatales
some of whom were more than just his 'pals'

Frederick Leighton also adept@ art politic&diplomacy
nothwithstanding his  'ladies' portrayed so temptingly

Nathaniel Bacon posed vegetables artistically
alongside a 'model' so erotically...

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(A weary voice whispers)

Like a slave to love
I once looked for true completeness 

But like Beatrice and Dante, 
There was always a great barrier 

Between us

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

Foundation.

Does society, peer pressure, family or religion, hinder many when searching for love?...

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Florence, the perfect city.
Oh great David.
How you toppled a giant.
Oh Dante, the greatest there ever was,
Or ever will be.
Through sin you rose to the highest heavens.
Domed brilliance, catching the morning sun.
Swift Arno flowing through you.

But then alas the evening train-
Must carry me away....

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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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Milton, Dante, Pope,
Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare
Just to name a few
(Reader, I hope no Umbrage taken);
They Reach for Stars and Fly 
The Milky Way, Touch Universes
They are Poets!
Me – just a man of rhymes
(At least I try)
Crawling Earth,
Sometimes under, to share information
Which I deem important,
Without any regards to Rules;
Then, just get out....

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The silent house
That sits by the sea
Is quite Dante but
You can hear the waves
Pounding against the rocks
Over and over again
As if it’s trying to
Make a statement
As it pounds you can smell
The crisp air’s freshness and 
Strange sounds that seem to spread 
Through the walls of the silent house
Bringing in a creepy feeling
That comes from the sea 





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Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton and Klein*  

Wished to post poems on Soup that thought fine

They worked all night and all day

Taking care of what to say

Prayed their work the Soupers wouldn't decline!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
       18 July 2019



*Abraham Moses Klein, one of Canada's greatest poets,
from Montreal Canada, were I lived for almost 20 years!...

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A-d'ncer finesse pr'nser d'ys aw'y amidst herbs,
Ode of gold'n birds b'hold th'ir tale b'told,
Persuas'ons pleasure illus'ons ed't'ons;
Cr'ssed the fr'zen ember field,
A-S'nday sl'mbered t'ssle wake,
Wh't will it cost D'nte's ice tre'ts,
Hop'ful wh'n Spring forg'ts,
And Summer st'lls an Ind'an s'ts,
Oh P ' ' r Jack Fr'st, Fall f'rg't,
Dante er'pts, never give'p.

*What's on the line is: More Per the Merrier...

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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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It isn’t a coincidence
That hell’s perceived as hot
For as for being in a boiling place,
I’d rather not.

The limits to my comfort zone
Where summer is concerned
Do not require that my skin
Turn red or crisp and burned.

It’s also not dependent on
The pouring out of sweat,
Although that’s as uncomfortable
As I am like to get.

No, all it takes ‘til I become
Dante in his Inferno
Is 90’s plus humidity – 
From outside, I adjourn-o!...

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Oh' you scared,persecuted square.
Dante melts my suffering skin.
Darkness falls in limbo as a curse to me.
I'm a gluttonous fraud.
Spitting in tune they say-''We spare not the tears of weakness.''
Rage fuels the hatred,as twas my acute demise.

Anoint thy soul heavenly father.
I was once tired.
Now given the gift of imminent strength.
Blessed by a prominent light.
I've surrendered my body.
Feel no pain,agony escapes me.


PD~Poet Destroyer contest~...

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MOLAR AND THE TOOTH FAIRY
It's like I was sucking on a Sugar Baby
caramel delicacy oozing
between my bicuspids and incisors,
sweetness of the gods 
how much pleasure can a mortal woman
survive? 
Dante in my lap
Oh divine madness
Sugar Baby come to me
and she did
like a razor blade splitting my molar
right down the middle
all the way to the nerve.
What rhymes with "Aggghhhhhh?"

compliments of my friend Mattress Mary in Winter Park Florida...

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