She has not yet been born:
she is music and word,
and therefore the untorn,
fabric of what is stirred.
Silent the ocean breathes.
Madly day-s glitter roams.
Spray of pale lilac foams,
in a bowl of grey-blue leaves.
May my lips rehearse
the primordial silence,
like a note of crystal clearness,
sounding, pure from birth!
Stay as foam Aphrodite - Art -
and return, Word, where music begins:
and, fused with life-s origins,
be ashamed heart, of heart!
Silentium
Osip Emilevich Mandelstam
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Poem topics: birth, life, ocean, silence, blue, stay, return, pure, silent, aphrodite, Valentine's Day, crystal, heart, music, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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