{"sf1_id":1936945,"sf2_id":"dmBgBgKn","title":"Damned Poet","author":"Xiamn","words":236,"posted_at":"2022-12-26T16:10:00.000Z","tags":["Dante","Decalyric","Fox","Hell","Petry","Poem","Poet","Vergilious","damned","earth"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1936945-damned-poet","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmBgBgKn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/8b/b9/8bb9867d-3202-433b-842d-e7e9158b6f52","description":"#1 of Decaliyric: Fox\n\nA longer reflexive poem I wrote with the help of the motive of Dante.","content":"Of damned nature your poetry is,  \nYour comedy I oh so much cherish,  \nDescribed as divine and to cause bliss,  \nAmong the ones who seem to perish.  \n  \nYou went thru hell to get above,  \nGuided by the light of a poet in nature,  \nTo reunite with Beatrice, your love,  \nAnd to face the might of our creator.  \n  \nThe descriptions of hell you provide are vivid,  \nImpressive it is, your bravery at display,  \nThe regime of hell is cruel and rigid,  \nYet the beasts there, you manage to dismay.  \n  \nThough hell may not differ from the real world,  \nCovered in crimson, tinted by sins,  \nA mirrored image that is just blurred,  \nOne could assume they are twins.  \n  \nAnd a blind world this one really is,  \nFilled with ones who lack a spine,  \nWhat a sad and tragic story tis,  \nThey know to follow a \"divined\" design.  \n  \nI call upon thee, oh you damned poet,  \nTo guide the spineless, just like Virgilio's did,  \nTo shine upon us light, for you knowest,  \nFrom a straight path, we might skid.  \n  \nMy presence though isn't of divinity,  \nJust because I rebel, doesn't mean I'm safe,  \nFor sin, I too have an affinity,  \nMy lack of spine might be my strafe.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;So, guide me, alongside the wicked,  \nThru the inferno planes, one calls Earth,  \nFor you've gone thru them and been afflicted,  \nBy the realm of pain, that to sin gives birth.\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Decaliyric: Fox","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1936943-helios.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1937722-styx.json"}}