The following poem is an attempt to present a modern rendition of Gilgamesh - as it relates to Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, Psychology, throughout many generations up through the modern day. I have also attempted to present the poem here in Poetic Edda style.

I now write as "Honorary Dean, Faculty of Comparative Religion" Bari Shah Latif International University
and
Ambassador of Peace and Good Will, in relation with said International University - and the Global Faith Forum.

I am also a world renown Etymologist, Linguist, and theologian in the study of Thele-phonetics reflected through the nature of letters used within scriptural Runes, Hebrew, and Greek - with some contemplation of Arabic. I am the author of the Qur'an Bible Blog on Facebook, combining the Allegorical cognition between many historical divinely inspired books - as recognized within humanity.

Gilgamesh I

By Rick Sjaardema
May 31, 2013

1. A coalification Phileo - Sophia's ancient of days

The travels of GilGalilee - pooling of mind and heart sways
Two thirds we're essence of God - caught in the flesh of a man
Epics of shepherds and sheepfolds - which ore our time space span

2. Gifted of Name and I-nanny - Tar-Torah's playpens of treasure

A spirit who walked on his wall - like a soul peers over its pleasure
Now dazed the sheep hear his voice - this Kingdom his peak has no rival
Thus the earth has grown tense - concerned for its very survival

3. Heaven created an equal - to quest Macho's Tyrannical reign

Blessed with the Eros of thunder - yet becoming a primate foreign
Bewildered by wilderness heather - High Father offered Son sage
Win your beloved through gnosis - open the leaves of your age

4. Thus divining the hidden - a harlot controlling events
Hypocrisy lured the youth - with wisdom's ecstatic incense
Changing a name giving honor - sinner now learned to speak
Domesticating the human - A Sham Kat serpent staff tweak

5. Now having risen in stature - God granted a vision to sew

Faith is borne with a mission - take up your crossbow and go
From birth till the season of man - the arch of the sun grows high
Approaching the call of our life - the heat of our summer draws nigh

6. As Moses was called to Egypt - or Jesus arch-Eros Salem

Love thee thy enemy tested - rather than curse Ham or Shem
The axe of Zayin had fallen - the rib of Adam God gave
Sibyl woman given a hunter - a sky bolt from Anu to save

http://youtu.be/w-4Dtexj_-E

"These Bloodied Thresholds"

Gilgamesh II
Poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 2, 2013

1. Adversity fallen to earth - cornerstone like a Kabah

Assembly the sole of god's mirth - filling our ravenous caw
This nurture of Mother all things - a paring of cells right and left
A righteous man bearing a sword - a word in our head board cleft

2. Sun's noon shone on Gilgames' face - wisdom aroused wicked hordes

Come let us worship together - let us go to the houses of lords
Wolves with the roars of the lions - wedding the shepherds of sheep
These rear the chosen in pews - such vengeance with-in-laws creep

3. Weaned from the wilderness' milk - warrior's now worship a Christ

Bread of Creation's life broken - Wine blood Gab's Thanks' Eucharist
Like Samson the honey of lions - Enkidu a Pole-Ish judge
Sheepfold protector of fortress - sectarian haven of sludge

4. Open the mind of the people - prepare ye to feast on the lamb

Armies on heaven's white horses - vultures partake of the ram
Fill ceremonial table - impregnate the destined house wife
Foaming God's cup for a nation - later the husband serf's strife

5. This werewolf donned in sheep's clothing - now he entered the city

Gilgamesh one time Gigolo - compared, appeared not as pretty
A spiritual wrath of confusion - a politic this verses that
Baptismal fire flood version - adversarial intelligent cat

6. In six eras god had created - the seventh a saber toothed shame

A Joseph a lion of Judah - blood spattered doorpost and frame
God's wrath a confusion of Babel - men's Eros like corn fed grain
Passover's Queen of the veil - bridegroom of earth's unloved vein

"The Priestly Firewall"

Gilgamesh III

Poem by Rick Sjaardema

June 5, 2013

1. As Jacob had wrestled a man - as opposites attract one another

These poles of magnetic force - enjoining men brother to brother

Their enmity demolished the house - reflecting his families' horn

Warrior would go before king - Joab's prayer of Jabez borne

2. Faith that wished to move mountains - Messiah of this rolling sea

Father A noon sun this Spirit - Humbaba this YHWH of me

Our strength had been challenged once - ego had now been humbled

Was our God an idolatry - bleating like sheep we'd assembled

3. Who hath caused this our enmity - who hath created our rival

Who have we wrestled in life - concerned for our very survival

Asherahs of this forest grove - roots like a garden of weeds

Spirits of Gabriel's fire - flooding our purging with seeds

4. To keep the Kingdom safe - from the Seven's Spiritual throne

The Queen appointed the warrior - his friendship with Gilgal shone

Do not fear death through oblation - Service the Kingdom at hand

Craftsmen created their weapons - to forge through the dragon's land

5. Show us the creature of heaven - who's name echoes age to age

The elders within the kingdom - mocked Gilgamesh' childish rage

A journey towards seventh heaven - pure mortal indeed shall fail

Gilgamesh looked and he smiled - prepare thee my ship to sail

6. Enkidu, forged from the mountain - Galilee of Spiritual whim

Trust not your own understanding - in all ways acknowledge him

A priest or prophetic voice - outside this womb an oblation

Friar of enchanted forest - assume this man a relation

"Horror of Great Darkness"

Genesis 15:12 (Shamash)

Gilgamesh IV

By Rick Sjaardema

June 6, 2013

1. By day they traveled by sun - at noon they ate their round

As Shamash was going down - at night they made their mound

Within this circle, free from woe - Gilgamesh like men did sleep

Terror roused him in a dream - The shepherd would calm the sheep

2. Three times this process continued - three times his flesh would crawl

The wind would speak of a devil - darkness would speak of the fall

Yet Samuel spoke to Elijah - Shamash would also rise

Enkidu would interpret a blessing - Their skin of water, their eyes

3. This moat surrounding this mountain - Oh Lord this my fortress be

This fellowship bread of earths' dust - this campfire smoke set me free

Yet nephilim overcame daylight - storm clouds this fire they hemmed

Back to the desert they wandered - these Sethians, first born, these Shemmed

4. When pill gramming spiritual realm - we dare not travel alone

The hallowed, she likes to tease - like throwing the dogmas a bone

When traversing these mountain paths - travel in two or three strands

Even Alma Mater's Lion - some day leaves life to the grands

5. Stones of the earth thus engraved - smoothed become lost to time

Sending unclear messages - interpretations, not even a rhyme

Fire sparks into the night - dark clouds billow by day

Fogs of dead pines in the door - confusing the best seer's way

6. Words formed for nations' covens - Enkidu now failed to hone

Their pathway seemed impossible - his arms were still like stone

The king, he offered the fragrance - to lift oblation's spirit

Paralysis turned to confidence - they met heaven's forest with grit

"Wild Wild - Wild"
Gilgamesh V
By Rick Sjaardema
June 7, 2013

1. Tall cedars of Syria/Lebanon - undergrowth entangling great pines

The wisdom of Yaw's Shalom men - desire homes of worship and signs
Shaded in nests of these Asherahs - happiness winged this forest
Overgrown, virtuously darkened - blackened by names sun's rays blessed

2. The ogre spit grammar's fury - look at you puny and small

Your beloved you ride like a donkey - Goliath three hundred feet tall
Like mirages, your days are like women - their breast milk dries with old age
Yet here you are with Thor's hammer - the garment of decipherers' rage

3. Thus wind stoked Gomorrah's fire - Milky's edict's seeds split the earth

The Mother of Nature explained it - a series of death and rebirth
Now... behold me my children - these birds and these lions I've named
Yet ego had welled up within them - If you be our God then be shamed

4. Gilgamesh struck at her tree trunks - Enkidu tore out her roots

Israel massacred Canaan - their knowledge of evil borne fruits
These wolfhounds, the cry of the hunter - carried the faith of the nation
Worshipping stone of memorial - Children to Molech their ration

5. Now Priest tis within your power - to advise your king to stand down

Enkidu advised Gil to slay her - to grasp her memorial crown
After the rockets red glare - the Lewis and Clarke Expedition
Gold rush and Otter's revenge - the Gods had completed their mission

6. Obligation now offered to heaven - the wood of the forest pine

Purgatory received a new gateway - an altar for horn fed swine
Creation now floated down river - the righteous, they washed their hair
Mordecai rode Easter's Chariot - Gilgamesh ascended the stair

"Kingdoms and Holocausts"

Gilgamesh VI
Poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 9, 2013

1. Groomed in royal robes with a sash - Marduk now stood in Gil's gate

Him wearing new royal crown - Ishtar now tempted man's fate
The Merkabah of heaven now yours - Humanity hangs in the gallows
I shall betroth you this day - enemies pillaged like fallows

2. Gilgamesh heard heaven laugh - perceiving the temptress of power

'Possess now all you can see - You are my Son of the hour'
'Esther... pride of the herdsmen - who holocaust lambs every day
Yet, dogma's tear at their haunches - now get thee behind me away

3. Pasteurized Alma which bore me - Mater's great baker of bread

Yet your temptation of power - has led to dishonor and dread
Blood mixed with saints in your dungeon - Spiritual dragon like frogs'
Ishtar, now filled with resentment - promised to raise up the gogs

4. El Yawnu heard her frustration - and offered his bull of right hand

As crimson's tide flooded the living - strophe orchestrated the band
Death now immortalized living - baptismal promise of Jordan
Valiant's hall of the martyrs - the sacred show bread unleaven

5. Gilgamesh, like butcher heroic - plunged his sword deep between horns

Dividing the spiritual Sheol - prostrated to new Sja-birthed morns
Arranged, this meat on this altar - ravenous vultures o'er flew
Ishtar, her harlot's mirages - Abra-Am's relegionist's stew

6. Korah's Qur'ans of the earth - warriors now swallowed in dust

Enkidu survived Ishtar's curse - 'Gilgal's pallor worship you must'
Kingdom made merry with goblets - this man more radiant than wife
Then lay they them down to dream - the heavens were planning their strife

http://youtu.be/x3kP9F6sPXE

 
At Death's Doorway
Gilgamesh VII (Contemporary rewrite)
A poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 10, 2013

1. As morning dawned, the prophet spoke - He shared his vision of night

Heaven and earth had held converse - their anger established his fright
They'd slain Huyawa who guarded trees - they'd slain the bull of the sky
Sun and wind established their course - yet now Gil's seer must die

2. Enkidu lifted up his voice - Justifying his pine wood door

He'd built Gil's temple for this son - tall ceilings from Lebanon's floor
Gil had listened to his friend - his lips had buzzed like flies
A legacy left for the grieving - a friend who had once been wise

3. Flowing with water before the sun - earth watered the hunters of men

He then remembered his harlot - in wisdom's garden of Jinn
The idol Gilgamesh had made - did not ease Enkidu's scorn
Righteousness left the priest empty - wishing he'd never been borne

4. A voice then roared from heaven - why do you curse and throw stones

Sheepfolds en-temple my harlot - kingdom children disciple my clones
I gave you your wine to drink - in robes magnificently clothed
Men shall remember you fondly - for things in this life you've loathed

5. Then curses, he turned into blessings - His love for Shamkat heartfelt

Herdsmen shall not hold back from you - in shrines shall undo their belt
Listen my friend, I had a dream - between earth and heaven I stood
I've met the Lion and the Eagle - where gods collect crowns for good

6. Enkidu now lay at death's door - his brother unable to save

King for his Priest now wept - sorrow where once he'd felt brave
My friend, my strength is near gone - into death's forest you'll leave
Within this life you've led me - your spiritual memory I'll cleave

"Weaving Our Sheol"

Gilgamesh VIII (Time/Space rewrite)
A poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 11, 2013

1. When first light of dawn had appeared - Gilgamesh spoke to his friend

Within the herds of free spirit - your youth the ungodly did tend
Your mother a graceful gazelle - your Father a prized mustang
Heaven and earth now shall weep - as they hear how your death toll rang

2. Now hear me shepherds of sheepfolds - our Prophet was a noxious Ash

He rose like a thief in the night - and robbed me my youth and my sash
Our friend was the hunted mule - as lions we scaled rugged hills
Demolished enchantment's keeper - Now held by Masonic skills

3. Dressed we in robes of refinement - placed in his coffin with care

Grieving as great lions do - our eyes mist meets the dawn's aire
Our sheepfolds this memory shall follow - tithes, we bestow thee our ware
Together we establish a ceremony - as a sign we shall shear our hair

4. Shamash shines on your Asherah - within Shem's line be your name

Our shrines be filled with your stories - weapons for sacrifice and shame
Granted to underworld's guardians - this coven's ark made for Ishtar
Mankind's quick sands now begotten - as forests of tombstones prone are

5. Cedars behold the white of the moon - Saraiah's cherished Elammaku

Only the best wood shall house thee - perfection for thee Enkidu
In land's of Milky Way's honey - breakfast had now been prepared
For kings, their Knights of sound fables - Angelic tables now shared

6. Pastured gravestones still shall run smooth - Creations' first love now waits

Like trees we're grown by the rivers - remembering fruits of death's dates
The living now caught up in chains - like this our old king Gilgamesh
Memorializing dead who've passed on - become like a Hebrew fetish

"Engraving Our Truth"

Gilgamesh IX (travels through theological history)
A poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 18, 2013

1. The light of the gods was Sin - identity caught up in faith

Gil experienced emotion - tugging his heartstrings like wraith
Now out roaming the wilderness - he reached mountain passes at night
Through prayer he'd carved names for gods - to reduce their lion like fright

2. As mountains now rose from his sea - between earth and heaven firm

Gilima carved destinies' stones - salting Tiamat's worms so they squirm
Temples nippling sun swept hills - wet nursing a scorpion core
Seraph's baptismal fire by day - flashing nights' children at war

3. Along this journey seeking truth - covenants distinguished horizons

Psyche, Noah, Atrahasis - blessed by these flood weapon's scions
Good and evil enter to play - eternal life now seemed doomed
Cherubim still guard heaven's garden - divisions of man thus assumed

4. Gilgamesh spoke of first life - as Hebrew's snake of first sin

Scorpions in earth's Yggdrasil - like Anak or Metatron's Qin
To fortress of firewalls scaled - angel now egged Gilgamesh on
Chase after the path of Shamash - from dusk till early morn's dawn

5. Through first nine legs he travailed - Cogs broke ahead and behind

Travel through Nut's realm of darkness - gnashing of teeth as though blind
Mastema's tenth raiment now tithed - dawn's shadows fled from Shamash
Thorn bush, fruit tree of knowledge - pearly gates seen through ray's flash

6. Escaping forests of Pine groves - fortressed by banded agate

Crowned by brambles of thorn bush - King Gilgamesh bore he this weight
Turkish delight with the devil - raiment of truth thus assails me
Visiting Siduri the alewife - who bartends the shores of this sea

http://youtu.be/RY_SsLIyQCE

 
Gilgamesh (X)
"Bread of Heaven"
A poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 21, 2013

1. The sea is the Lord's foaming cup - dividing continence of man

This wine of divided body - throughout chronological span
Grief now brought a gale lion skinned - Siduri now bolted her door
Winds now storm tossed the sea waves - threatening to strip her barred shore

2. Darkness of death haunted this King - Priest Enkidu he'd loved so much

They'd suffered the fate of mankind - Gil's wolf skin, the pain of faith's crutch
Shamash alone had crossed this sea - to America, lost to the winds
Find the boat's man of the flood - now sail towards Atlantis' sins

3. Outside the charred realm of Herod - there's weeping and gnashing of teeth

Tis better housed with the sacred - with blood spattered lamb slaughtered wreath
Now cut logs with sure shine Abbey - As you seek for eternal life
Desire to eat, drink, be merry - within Ark cause covenant strife

4. Those first stones you cut from the mount - still golden, salvation's rule

Yet, your star descended to earth - you broke those stones like a fool
Now, build your ark from the forest - to sail o'er your fellowman
Ascend the steps of your altar - your grief of Seth's drama your fan

5. Why should my heart not be wretched - nor grief my innermost being

Face like a long distance trav'ler - Axe in my right hand now swinging
My Priest was the mustang's prize stud - a lion of great mountain pass
My friend, whom I cleaved into death - now formed into clay is his mass

6. Scion, why do you grieve your priest - Zion, why do you fight for God

If Gilgamesh cares for Temple - then be a caretaker of sod
Death is the fate of all mankind - though they be flesh of the heavens
Dragons fly over the rivers - Bakers may now add their leavens

"Catastrophic Baptismal Rebirth"

Gilgamesh XI (Contemporary rewrite)

A poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 22, 2013

1. Serpent tongues of philosophy - King's genie so logically staffed

Gilgamesh with Ut-NH-Phisht-im - discussed NoaH's flood weapon craft
Sheepfold by river Euphrates - their father with counselor El
Rejected to search out the living - such natives in worship to fell

2. Now Masons created my craft - we sacrificed sheep so to say

With oil, with new wine, and beer - we feasted like New Year's Day
Thus morning, clouded by darkness - by evening's heaviness of wheat
A storm cloud rose from our valley - (Nin)urta established our feat

3. Gods feared such wrath of confusion - no people distinguished in death

Ishtar, god's mistress was wailing - like Eve through the bearing of Seth
Her temple had spoken of evil - believers now turning to clay
For six days the tempest now raged - awaiting the next Sabbath day

4. Santa Marias, moored on names - founding Jubilee's distant shores

Returning comes the dove of peace - fating destinies' raven's lores
Like Muhammad I set to pray - the gods like great flies buzzed my head
The warrior Ellil saw my ark - wishing to Yah I'd been dead

5. Who other than Yah would have saved - now punish this sinner for sin

Place him as a bow in the sky - to aim flaming arrows at kin
Gilgamesh now slept seven days - Jerusalem's garments renewed
Memory of grief swept away - blind loss of their cognizance skewed

6. Let me reveal guarded matter - let me tell the secrets of God

Haunting words place thorns in your crown - like nails in your hands and feet shod
Consider Judas crucified - despised and rejected by men
The tongue in this earth steals the thorn - as humans rebirth scaly skin

http://youtu.be/e1wpbCbPP7U

 
"Scrounging Wormy Manna"
Gilgamesh XII (Contemporary rewrite)
A Poem by Rick Sjaardema
June 23, 2013

1. My heart and my mind are of God - Maker of earth and of heaven

Through carpentry welled up in Soul - unto these counselors seven
Gil had loved the daughters of men - Enkidu prepared to retrieve
advised to not wake the waters - or heart wrenched the heavens would grieve

2. Yet Enkidu created ties - his spirit thrown dogmas a bone

Domesticated and perfumed - the natives surrounded his throne
He chose to love those whom he loved - and he struck those whom he hated
The church like a virgin asleep - now caught like a new moon sated

3. Having caught the name of this son - whom the earth so readily donned

Gilgal lamented his servant - whom in heaven he'd been so fond
Father El nor Sin had held him - Earth's reverence his Spirit did seize
Now create a hole in ozone - to release his spiritual breeze

4. Together again in heaven - these brothers now spoke of earth's tone

They wept over Gilgal's sheepfold - through garment her nakedness shone
Her children you held in your lap - in fox holes like worms in the dust
Scribes who were once open minded - now worship in fear cause they must

5. Through lives, they honor their nation - with Patriarchs heads on a pole

Jihadists, Crusaders their rags - honoring the friends of their soul
Now they lament Alma Mater - lest heaven remove her tent pegs
They look to the Christ of their cross - perishing through promised land dregs

6. I see them once slain in battle - storied nights told round this table

Their bodies strewn for the vultures - corpses of Cain and Abel
I saw them, these Christs crucified - whom the tear of every age greets
We feed from leftover manna - heavens bread crumbs lining our streets