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Anonymous Asian

I lived from 1-1950.

who wrote it? Who knows?
The names fell from the pages,
Lost and never
To return to where
The eyes of the reader
Might ever see them.
I am no one,
Constructing eternity so
I can live forever.

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  • My body, in its withering
    My body, in its withering, may become a lovely swallow.
    Under the eaves of my loved one's home I'll build my nest of twigs.
    3 lines, 6 comments
  • Eightfold Fence.
    Eightfold rising clouds
    build an eightfold fence
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • A drum beats
    A drum beats in the far temple; I think it's in the clouds.
    Is it above the meadow and hill, perhaps below the sky?
    3 lines, 5 comments
  • If this were a world
    If this were a world
    in which there were no such thing
    6 lines, 3 comments
  • Enuma Elish (When on high)
    When on high the heaven had not been named,
    Firm ground below had not been called by name,
    179 lines
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet I
    He who has seen everything, I will make known (?) to the lands.
    I will teach (?) about him who experienced all things,
    279 lines
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet V
    ... They stood at the forest's edge,
    gazing at the top of the Cedar Tree,
    141 lines
  • Others have told me
    Others have told me
    quiet pools are to be found
    6 lines, 2 comments
  • Less profitable
    Less profitable
    than writing on the waters
    6 lines
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablet VI
    He washed out his marred hair and cleaned up his equipment(?),
    shaking out his locks down over his back,
    173 lines
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