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
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- With All Thy Gifts. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Плещеев – По чувствам братья мы с тобой
- First Light
- Gazebo
- Жан де Лафонтен – Две Козы
- An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare
- Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 2 by William Somervile
- Константин Бальмонт – Надгробные цветы
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam
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).
