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
- Epitaph by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
- Two Sisters Of Persephone by Sylvia Plath
- Иннокентий Анненский – Идеал
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня дочери
- Rainbow Hues by Suchi Gaur
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бивак
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry:
- PROGNOSIS by Satish Verma
- March Evening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation] poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell:
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
- Feelings of A French Royalist, On The Disinterment Of The Remains Of The Duke D’Enghien by William Wordsworth
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