Forgotten Lore: A Poem

You probably noticed from a few blog posts how I put stock in the idea that phonetics that show up in languages clustered together indicate an older human history or culture. I include a poem I wrote in this post because every word came from an Indonesian dictionary. Every word included the phonetic: -ak. Once examined those words form a narative in the form of a poem - or perhaps it is a song. The story of a family of radish farmers taken by pirates and sold into slavery to build the great structures of a far away civilization only for it to end in a slave revolt.

A Poem 

Father 

Mother 

Child 

Uncle 

Sibling 

Blood relatives 

Hut 

Cattle 

Plough 

To cultivate 

Radish 

Muddy 

Footprint 

Crow 

To scream 

Pirate 

To attack 

To thrash 

To threaten 

To intimidate 

To March 

Deck of ship 

Waves 

To deficate 

Musty 

Sound of sleep 

To drop off 

Bald 

Slave 

To spear 

rhinoceros 

To tan 

Stained 

To sieve 

To stamp 

To powder 

To extract 

Mica 

Silver 

To measure 

Radius 

Wedge 

To crack 

To move 

To erect 

To dam 

To incite 

Revolt 

To overthrow 

To pull down 

To destroy 

To laugh out loud 

Cheering 

To scatter 

A Poem.

Sean Robert Meaney 

January 2014