Rubaiyat

Follow the circle plan of Baghdad.
The same for Darabgird
and Ecbatana
repeated again at Firuzabad.

The laws came from Shamash.
The journey by Gilgamesh.
Rules, a quest for immortality, creation—
When above—Enuma Elish.1

Geomancy is a proportional art
giving back to nature some heart.
A warning from the past,
learn the lesson or destroy the start.

Ancient cosmology
Babylon’s astrology.
The tower of Babel
imposes on biology.

1 “When on high…” The Enuma Elish is a 12th century Babylonian poem, based on the Sumerian creation myth.