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 Fragrance of life by Preeth Nambiar
- Myself by Robert Creeley
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Self-Care for Creative Artists: 10 Reasons To Care About It
- Степан Щипачев – Голос
- A Death-Day Recalled by Thomas Hardy
- “Give me a roof where Wisdom dwells” poem – Alfred Austin
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Eidólons. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Воспоминание
- The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь материальную базу
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
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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).
