Between going and staying the day wavers
by Octavio Paz
Between going and staying the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.
All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can’t be touched.
Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.
Time throbbing in my temples repeats
the same unchanging syllable of blood.
The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections.
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Fareweel To A’Our Scottish Fame by Robert Burns
- Жан де Лафонтен – Врачи
- Limbo Under the Westway poem – André Rostant poems
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- The Tame Bird Was In A Cage by Rabindranath Tagore
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь
- The Callous Statues by Shahida Latif
- A CANTICLE TO APOLLO by Robert Herrick
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Жан де Лафонтен – Война Крыс и Ласок
- A Toast To Nations
- Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
- All-Accomplished Rover by William Somervile
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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).
