020619c

words of a moon priestess
outlive her civilization
outlive worship of the moon
read by those
who can never know her world
who can never know her moon
but they can know her words

020519c

the first poet,
Mesopotamian priestess,
but what of the gatherers, who,
playing with sounds,
invented alliteration
and all that stuff,
millennia before?


A somewhat superficial account of the world's earliest known poet:

World's first poet: https://lithub.com/why-has-no-one-ever-heard-of-the-worlds-first-poet/

More about Enheduanna, the world's earliest known poet, with translations of some of her poems:

http://www.transoxiana.org/0108/roberts-enheduanna.html