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… But to retell the good discovered there, Canto I found myself within a shadowed forest …. Canto I'll also tell the other things I saw. Canto 1.009
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THE DIVINE COMEDYDante’s Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Abandon all hope ye
who enter
here.
Canto 3.009
Dante:When I had journeyed half of our life's way, Canto 1.001
… But to retell the good discovered there, Canto 1.008
I found myself within a shadowed forest …. Canto 1.003
I'll also tell the other things I saw. Canto 1.009
THROUGH ME THE WAY INTO THE SUFFERING CITY, THROUGH ME THE WAY TO THE ETERNAL PAIN,
THROUGH ME THE WAY THAT RUNS AMONG THE LOST. Canto 3.003
DARK FOREST
I had no regard for my eternal future this is a journey, for my soul’s sake, it must endure.In effort of redemption, His intentions sincere, my pilgrimage through this hellish nightmare
Here Light and Love hide, remain aloofhere darkness invades these souls to their roots
trapped here in Limbo, wretched inferno the devil’s nine layers of hell
2nd CIRCLE
Lust
The lusty and carnal who betrayed reason for pleasure,are caught up in this tempest of sensual displeasure.Here, there, up, down, whirling, they whirl, they strain,With not a hope of release, but even of less pain.
Lust
Lust
3rd CIRCLE
GLUTTONY
Those in circle three did nothing with their lives.Gluttonous incontinence consumed their appetites.They howl like dogs in pain in hell’s freezing rain,as ice, slush, and hailstones plummet upon their frames.
Gluttony
4th CIRCLE HOARDERS
&WASTERS
The fourth sphere contains those who in their liveswere squint-eyed, miserly, skewed in their minds.Their love of money supersede all reason.They lost their identity, this was their treason.
4th CIRCLE Hoarders & Wasters
Forced to roll stones in opposite bands of a circleTill they meet and crash, rendezvous, in unending cycles.One screams, “Why do you hoard? The other, “Why do you waste?Eternally they crash and meet, eternally their fate.
4th CIRCLE ANGRY
&SULLEN
Trapped in circle five, the sludge of the StyxLie souls of the wrathful, violent, and wretchedClimbing, then sinking, they scramble and smotherDoomed to spend eternity pulverizing one another
Wrathful
And here, too, you’ll find the depressed and sad-chokedIn the glory of His shining their hearts poured a bitter smokeThey said, “Once in the air made sweet by the sun”Sullen are we here, but “sullen were we begun.”
Sullen, Depressed
He governs everywhere, but rules from there; there is His city, His high capital: o happy those He chooses to be there!"
He governs everywhere, but rules from there; there is His city, His high capital: o happy those He chooses to be there!"
He governs everywhere, but rules from there; there is His city, His high capital: o happy those He chooses to be there!"
He governs everywhere, but rules from there; there is His city, His high capital: o happy those He chooses to be there!"