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
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
- Terminal by Sylvia Plath
- Godo Is Not Coming by Ndue Ukaj
- Владимир Набоков – Забудешь ты меня, как эту ночь забудешь
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти Н.И. Кульбина
- September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
- The Conjugation of the Paramecium by Muriel Rukeyser
- My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Evening wind by Yosa Buson
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
- Ок Мельникова – Всё будет
- Омар Хайям – Друг, умей от пустой суеты отличать
- An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Symbols by William Butler Yeats
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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).
