The more they stay the same. Here are three ancient Egyptian poems from the World poetry anthology. You know, poetry hasn't really gotten any better in the last 3,000 years.
Federico at Home
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Because he was a gardenerSprawling with his love deep in the night Where he
raised the autumn hillsOf Andalusia, scented with duende And pruned the old
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I have that anthology, too. For some reason I'd placed a marker on "Six Love Poems" by Ono no Komachi (p 275), but I can't remember why.
I don't mean to imply that poetry has gotten any worse. Ono no Komachi's poems are as good as anything in the anthology (though I prefer the versions that Jane Hirshfield did in The Ink Dark Moon).
I'll get right on that.
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