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
- Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Михаил Ломоносов – Богиня, дщерь божеств, науки основавших
- After Long Silence by William Butler Yeats
- Inscriptions For A Seat In The Groves Of Coleorton by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – Светлый пир
- Константин Бальмонт – Далеким близким
- Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel
- Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree by P. K. Page
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Федор Сологуб – Плачет безутешная вдова
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Contusion by Sylvia Plath
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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).
