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
- To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- Landowners by Sylvia Plath
- The Wolf and the Dog by William Somervile
- We Astronomers by Rebecca Elson
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- Blank Joy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени — копенгаген 1969
- Яков Полонский – Поэт и гражданин, он призван был учить
- Different World Views of Art
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ о Климе, купившем заем, и Прове, не подумавшем о счастье своем
- Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Kyrenaikos
- Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
- Dance To It by Shel Silverstein
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).
