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
- Peace poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- Our Bog Is Dood by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует 5-й год советской власти, утвердившейся в октябре! (Главполитпросвет №397)
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Love And Madness by Thomas Campbell
- In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Storm
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet
- A Winter Ride poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Who Would Not Die For England! poem – Alfred Austin
- Why England Is Conservative poem – Alfred Austin
- Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
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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).
