My Attempts at Creativity

Here are a couple of my poems. I'll put up a few of my drawings if/when I get them scanned. Take my link below to my favorite poems of famous authors/poets.

exerpt from Dante's "The Inferno"

• "Love, which in gentlest hearts will soonest bloom
• seized my lover with passion for that sweet body
• from which I was torn unshriven to my doom.
• Love, which permits no loved one not to love,
• took me so strongly with delight in him
• that we are one in Hell, as we were above.
• Love led us to one death. In the depths of Hell
• Caina waits for him who took our lives."
• This was the piteous tale they stopped to tell.
• And when I had heard those world-offended lovers
• I bowed my head. At last the poet spoke:
• "What painful thoughts are these your lowered brow covers?"
• When at length I answered, I began: "Alas!
• What sweetest thoughts, what green and young desire
• led these two lovers to this sorry pass..."
• The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.
• As for these souls, though they can never soar
• to true perfection, still in the new time
• they will be nearer it than they were before.

Links

Robert Frost
Dylan Thomas
Some of my Poems
From Where I Am
Unicorn Poem