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
- Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan
- The Farmer Of Tilsbury Vale by William Wordsworth
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- Владимир Бенедиктов – При иллюминации
- The Birth Of Love by William Wordsworth
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray
- One Viceroy Resigns by Rudyard Kipling
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Степанов – Гном (Буква Г)
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Testing The Bomb by Shel Silverstein
- Константин Бальмонт – Мы шли в золотистом тумане
- Life Of a Broke Person by Russell James
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
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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).
