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
- Владимир Британишский – Куда ты уйдешь
- Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы
- Sonet 34 by William Alexander
- Tonic For Victory
- Сергей Михалков – Приехавшей из Африки девчушке
- Love of the heart by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- The Island by Milton Acorn
- Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Николай Огарев – В прогулке поздней видел я
- On An Eclipse Of The Moon by Walter Savage Landor
- My Friends by W. S. Merwin
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats
- Conscripts by Siegfried Sassoon
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
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).
