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
- A Death-Day Recalled by Thomas Hardy
- Civil War Songs
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- The Indian Upon God by William Butler Yeats
- In the End by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Books by Mark Olynyk
- Николай Заболоцкий – Слепой
- Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
- Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox by Robert Burns
- Владимир Набоков – Осень
- A New Broom by Witt Wittmann
- Омар Хайям – Меняем реки, страны, города
- By Moschus by William Cowper
- Madonna poem – Alfred Austin
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