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
- Phantasm
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
- Human Charms
- Владимир Гиппиус – Иначе, как стихами, говорить
- The Copernican System by Thomas Chatterton
- On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Юнкерская молитва
- Man And The Echo by William Butler Yeats
- Reviewing When We Were Slugs!
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- High Talk by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Песня (Дороже почестей и злата)
Some external links:
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).
