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 Wife Of Usher’s Well poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Among The Sandhills
- A Lyric to Mirth by Robert Herrick
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare:
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Crowned poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Вани перед студентами
- Владимир Маяковский – По городам Союза
- Sepukku
- From Afar by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Flight by Rudyard Kipling
- Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Седакова – Болезнь
- love growing by Raj Arumugam
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