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

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Ode To A Low Key God of Mischief

Ode To A Low Key God of Mischiefby Michael DoyleSinister plans thicken the plotAllusions to brutality are too often soughtThere in the hinterland outside of timeIn a spit shot that feels less than sublimeAbsorbing the heart of stars outshinedInto the … Continue reading

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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

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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

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