Daily Poem: Not Like Dante ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Not Like Dante
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Not like Dante
discovering a commedia
upon the slopes of heaven
I would paint a different kind
of Paradiso
in which the people would be naked
as they always are
in scenes like that
because it is supposed to be
a painting of their souls
but there would be no anxious angels telling them
how heaven is
the perfect picture of
a monarchy
and there would be no fire burning
in the hellish holes below
in which I might have stepped
nor any altars in the sky except
fountains of imagination
