This book is part of the series of apocalyptic science fiction novels called "The Broken and the Dead". It is being offered to give new insight into the culture and language of the Da-Nah, a space faring race whose knowledge of genetic manipulation has allowed them to focus on those things they find beautiful, what perspectives they hold most dear, what they find to be Da-Nah. There are eleven examples of what the Da-Nah call "beautiful speaking words" or for the humans among us: Poems. Each is presented in syntactical Da-Nah and an English language translation is provided. A small commentary accompanies each of the poems in an attempt to explain why the poems are culturally relevant even after a minimum of twenty thousand years. The Da-Nah are a fascinating people, full of subtleties and nuance and this is reflected by the words they use. I hope that you have as much fun interpreting the poems as I did in translating them from the original Da-Nah script.