The Aegean
by Maria Luisa Spaziani
This music has lasted since the world began.
A rock was born among the waters
while tiny waves chatted in a soft universal tongue.
The shell of a se-turtle
would not have foretold the guitar.
Your music has always risen to the sky,
green taproot, Mother Sea,
first of all firsts. You enfold us,
nurturing us with music – threat,
fable, hypnosis, lullaby, roar,
omen, myth,
little agonies
of grit, of wreckages, of joys
Copyright ©: translated by Beverly Allen
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Запел петух, таинственный предвестник
- The Statesmen poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Седакова – Вьюга
- Огюст Барбье – Бук
- Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…)
- Владимир Агатов – Бессмертный Ленинград
- The Gift by Rabindranath Tagore
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Early Morning by Victoria Bukofske
- The Other by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- Mohay Apnay Hi Rung Mein poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- An English Breeze by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Leäne by William Barnes
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
