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
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- Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams. Томас Мур.
- A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
- A Prayer
- The Beam In Grenley Church by William Barnes
- Ballade Made In The Hot Weather by William Ernest Henley
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Mary’s Song by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: O May, Thy Morn:
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope
- Степан Щипачев – Ладонь
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Chipmunk by R. L. Karlowsky
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