2400 BC was the start of writing in cuneiform on clay or tone tablets, Ton - Klang. The first ever poetry, scribed by En-hedu-anna. The poetess was a high priestess in Ur and the daughter of King Sargon. In her giparu, the sanctuary for the moon divinity, Sum. Inanna, Akk. Sin or Ishtar, she lay on a luminous, fertile, blooming couch, surrounded by lapislazuli plants. Once En-hedu-anna was banished for a time to the desert, where she wrote ‘My mouth is no longer full of honey. Everything has now crumbled to dust’