I CHING

author: Chi Wu                           
ethnicity of author: Tartar
nation: Empire of Red Devil
descendant nations: Korea, Mongolia, China, Tibet, Laos, Vietnam, Burma
language/alphabet: trigrams       
year of composition: 2700 BC

syllables per line: 6-25                
alliteration: yes
lines per stanza: 2                                    
internal rhyming: yes
end rhyming: yes                                      
end rhyming scheme: couplets or varied
section translated: Canto 1               

significance: oracular runes on bones and turtle shells are East Asia’s earliest writings first inscribed by King Chi Wu of Korea upon conquering and unifying all of East Asia west to Tibet and south to Burma a 400 year dynasty whose territory will not be matched until Kublai Khan’s Mongol Empire 4000 years later

Chen: Creativity of Heaven

Creativity simile symphony sublime love rhymes
Powerful progress as patience perseveres Sun shines

Heaven moves with ooze of power
Likewise right minds are strong for long hours

Nine the first time is a rancid cry
From hidden dragon forbidden passion dies

Nine the second time is a dragon wading through wine of wash
Then rolling onto golden grass next to olden man tan and posh

Nine the third time is the hardest artist on target
Starves and carves stars even deep in sleep yet smartest

Nine the fourth time is impossible flight
Over depths of bottomless fear without light

Nine the fifth time is a crowned dragon soaring
In the heavens seven clouds a loud roaring

Nine the sixth time is the prideful dragon spiteful much resented
Who sighing repented as flying headless dragons endless luck augmented