Did Bosch know the centuries old Divine Comedy?
Appreciation does not require belief,
but painful death was disagreements price.
He could disguise ban views, poke fun with sly art;
clever puns made by paint brush laid to canvas.
There is profiled in his first pannel's grinning,
wink/nudge, distain for all religious fantasies.
Pannel three's outward gaze reveals no dismay
at musical torments for sinners' shaded hell.
Five centuries gone Dali has nothing on him.
Garbless pale figures in dreamscapes make his vision
timeless as consciousness complexities.
Did painting super reality inspire
John Milton's poetry of Paradise Lost?
Was Bosch merely joking in his fifieth year,
reflecting on savage justifications
of a middle age?
These hundredsof years later
that dogma remains in some cultures.
Thankfully our view is larger, the world is smaller.
Not metaphore, but joke.
Humor becomes you, Hieronymus.
We fortunate can now join in your laughter.
Damination is reserved for other blasphemies,
as is paradise with ten thousand virgins.
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