Poetry in one of the oldest Chinese scripts

This is a calligraphy of one of my poems, written in oracle bone script (甲骨文), a script that started to evolve in early Shang dynasty (商朝, 1600 – 1046 B.C.E.), approximately 3500 years ago. Writing in this particular script may be challanging at times, as out of 4700 character in total, "merely" 2000 were deciphered by the scientists.

Since the oracle bone script forms of the vast majority of Chinese characters (there are more or less 90,000 of them) simply do not exist., to be able to write this poem in this particular script, I had to create those forms from scratch. It took me nearly half a day of researching of the etymology of some of the radicals of characters in question, their forms in bronze inscriptions (金文 ) and seal script (篆書), but it was a great experience.

Below, you can find the full text of the poem in English and Chinese (translated by Yuki Mori / 由季森)),.

Shade of whisper sneaked upon
Teasing night with silver moon
Depth in eyes reflecting mine
Shy world hidden in cocoon
Drop of nature dipped in bliss
As playful breath on naked skin
Sound of smile brushing lips
I am possessed by wicked sin

耳語輕拂面
明眸照對嫻
寒夜戲銀月
羞怯繭中憐
吾欲盡酣暢
快意任流淌
暖息澤玉膚
罪惡心中響

You may view this calligraphy in larger format in a gallery on this site, here

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