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Tag Archives: Purgatory
Left Behind
Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Dante – The Divine Comedy, Canto XXX
In Canto XXX of The Divine Comedy, Dante and Virgil have survived the depths of hell and ascend to the Mountain of Purgatory which is on a displaced rock that resulted from Satan’s fall creating Hell. The mountain’s seven terraces correspond … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Dante, Harvard Classics, Purgatory, Sins, Terraces, The Divine Comedy
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Self Inflicted Purgatory (Day 15)
Going back over this past weekend’s challenges in writing at least a poem a day, I find that the day 15 challenge for NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo is to write something regarding the middle. Which middle? Apparently, any middle will do. I picked … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Empty Mind, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Philosophy, Purgatory, Stuck In the Middle With You, Themes
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