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
- For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White
- Robert Burns: Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie:
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты любил, и я тебя любила
- Владимир Костров – Не трогайте жанр
- The First Part: Sonnet 12 – Ah! burning thoughts, now let me take some rest, by William Drummond
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка-представление орлёнком Эдом Атаки Гризли
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ecclefechan:
- I Remember, I Remember by Philip Larkin
- Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems
- A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies
- By Moschus by William Cowper
- The Hospital On The Shore
- After-Thought by William Wordsworth
- Christmas in India by Rudyard Kipling
- A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar
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).
