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
- Bury Me In My Shades by Shel Silverstein
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Шекспир – А это смерть – Сонет 64
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Рожь
- Алексей Толстой – Ты знаешь, я люблю
- Epitaph on William Muir by Robert Burns
- The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Beautiful City poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки
- Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true by William Shakespeare
- София Парнок – Рондель
- “`Shepherd swains that feed your flocks” poem – Alfred Austin
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