Into The Night The Evening Goes Poem by Peter S. Quinn

Gilgamesh


Tablet 1

The one who saw all [Sha nagba imuru ]I will declare to the world,
The one who knew all I will tell about
[line missing]
He saw the great Mystery, he knew the Hidden:
He recovered the knowledge of all the times before the Flood.
He journeyed beyond the distant, he journeyed beyond exhaustion,
And then carved his story on stone. [naru: stone tablets ]


Tablet 4

The skies roared with thunder and the earth heaved,
Then came darkness and a stillness like death.
Lightening smashed the ground and fires blazed out;
Death flooded from the skies.
When the heat died and the fires went out,
The plains had turned to ash.

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- Into The Night the Evening Goes -

Into the night the evening goes
Contrasting moods of light
A wave of the deep eternally flows
On to its unknown flight
What have you brought of mystery here?
Recovering knowledge of time
There’s still nescient everywhere
On the meaning of the poets rhyme

Lost from the great past gone ways
Words of the fires and shades
Now it is sciolism that pays
Made with its jagged blades
Knowledge of time is in the stone
Carved in with each lyrical line
Still to its thoughts stands alone
Till there comes wakeful sunshine

Into the distant journeys beyond
Worlds have recovered with truth
Exhausted the tritely donned
With its charisma and eternal youth
The first poems were about love
The light and dark meeting glaze
Something the world hasn't much of
Last call is – love – and its ways