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 Perch by Seamus Heaney
- Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
- On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Поляки-крестьяне, чтоб вольными быть…
- How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Федор Сологуб – Краем прибережной кручи
- A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Epigram From Homer by William Cowper
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Runagate Runagate by Robert Hayden
- Xai Kou
- Complaint by William Carlos Williams
- A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army by William Topaz McGonagall
- Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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