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
- I’ll go and be a Sodger by Robert Burns
- Blue Moles by Sylvia Plath
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- Виктор Калитин – Фиалка
- How Am I? by Matt Bohart
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Major Logan:
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не хочу, чтоб свет узнал
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Иван Бунин – Балагула
- days of quiet by Raj Arumugam
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- softly… in wingless dream by Steve Troyanovich
- Oblivion by Satish Verma
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
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