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  • Before Poetry Had Authors: How Civilizations Remembered Through Form

    Before Poetry Had Authors: How Civilizations Remembered Through Form

    Before poetry became personal expression, it served a far older purpose: preservation. In early civilizations, poems were not authored, owned, or improvised. They were repeated with precision, shaped by rhythm and structure to survive across generations without writing. This essay explores how form—not authorship—once carried memory, belief, and identity, and what we may have lost…

  • Lost Echoes: Extinct Ancient Poetry Forms and the Dawn of Human Verse

    Lost Echoes: Extinct Ancient Poetry Forms and the Dawn of Human Verse

    Discover vanished ancient poetry forms from Sumerian balags to Hurrian hymns, exploring how the earliest civilizations like Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Vedic India mastered verse through oral mnemonics, rituals, and cuneiform innovation before they faded into extinction. #AncientPoetry #ExtinctForms #SumerianLiterature #VedicHymns #LostVerses