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
- Sonnet 07
- Robert Burns: O Wat Ye Wha’s In Yon Town:
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
- Федор Тютчев – Князю Суворову
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Огюст Барбье – Жертвы
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- Father by Philip Levine
- Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee: With an Impression of the Author’s Portrait.
- Владимир Маяковский – День в маевочку мою… (Главполитпросвет №151)
- Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
- Владимир Набоков – Есть в одиночестве свобода
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
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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).
