Some of the most vivid poems in the world are written on a huge rock in a remote forest in Sri Lanka. I have continued to be fascinated by them, by mankind’s endless inventiveness and imagination which yields such strange beauty. It is certainly too late for me now but if I had more than one lifetime that is a place I would want to visit.
The original of these poems were written during the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries on the curving wall half-way up the rock fortress of
