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
- Epigram on Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Аля Кудряшева – И кстати, еще бывает уездный гор
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Lament For The Makers By William Dunbar
- Hyperion. Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – Даже с самой прекрасной из милых подруг
- Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
- At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Joy In Martyrdom by William Cowper
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Иду я среди голодный
- Of Love and All by Raja Mannar
- Олег Григорьев – Дружба
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
- On His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
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