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
- The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- София Парнок – В земле бесплодной не взойти зерну
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- Иван Мятлев – Сельское хозяйство
- Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
- Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
- In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Юнна Мориц – Мой подвал
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- Faces. by Walt Whitman
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- Аля Кудряшева – Ночное
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).
