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
- Juan In Middle Age by Vernon Scannell
- A MEAN IN OUR MEANS by Robert Herrick
- Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
- Владимир Британишский – Старая Рига
- Владимир Высоцкий – Ох, где был я вчера
- On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- My Daughter by Preeth Nambiar
- Coming and Going by Tony Hoagland
- How to Survive After Losing a Loved One
- Gwaïn Down The Steps Vor Water by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Есть добрая, есть и дурная слава
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
- Николай Гумилев – Маргарита
- The Empty Boats by Vachel Lindsay
- Earliest Spring by William Dean Howells
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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).
