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
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes
- Николай Некрасов – Дни идут… всё так же воздух душен
- Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Гумилев – Живала Ниагара
- Through Liberty To Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
- First Sight by Philip Larkin
- Омар Хайям – Кто розу нежную любви привил
- Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Monody on a Lady, famed for her Caprice by Robert Burns
- Витя, Витенка, Витюша
- Владимир Корнилов – Боль
- To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, чтоб праздник перешел и в будни
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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).
