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
- To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
- Evening wind by Yosa Buson
- Mutability by William Wordsworth
- Moonrise poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Beast and Man in India by Rudyard Kipling
- Омар Хайям – Нет ни рая, ни ада, о сердце моё
- Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough
- Владимир Высоцкий – Невидимка
- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Tezcotzinco
- The Thraldom
- The Road to Avignon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- About The Nightingale by Samuel Coleridge
- Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика
- The Golden Age poem – Alfred Austin
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