Writing in Sumerian cuneiform, Princess Enheduanna’s poetry was celebrated a 1000 years before Homer. Five of her works survive. Modern poets are copying her style!
Temple hymn:
O house
jeweled lapis herbs fleck the shining bed
heart-soothing place of the Lady of the Steppe
Emush brickwork glistening and pure
its burnished clay placed firmly (on the earth)
your sky-rising wall sprawls over the high plain
for the one who tends the ewes…
C. T. Suddeth 
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