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
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Free Men Of God by John Oxenham
- Shut Not Your Doors, &c. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Что сделать, чтоб Всероссийский съезд Советов… (РОСТА №662)
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Ballade Of The Midnight Forest poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- Lover’s Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven by Rabindranath Tagore
- do you believe in always by Steve Troyanovich
- Николай Гербель – Зной
- Владислав Крапивин – Было все хорошо до недавней поры
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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).
