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
- America by Walter William Safar
- Faith by John Oxenham
- Ballade Of The Dead Cities poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Winter Ride poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- ambiguities of absence by Steve Troyanovich
- Михаил Лермонтов – Желанье
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ночь близ Якац
- Poll’s Jack-Daw by William Barnes
- A Grace before Dinner by Robert Burns
- An Evening Song. by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Маяковский – Рифмованные лозунги
- A Sunrise Song. by Sidney Lanier
- In Measures by Shaunna Harper
- Юрий Калугин – Счастье любит тишину
- Алексей Плещеев – Она и он
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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).
