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
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- A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander
- Олег Бундур – Колыбельная для мамы
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте
- Омар Хайям – Лучше пить и веселых красавиц ласкать
- Astigmatism by Satish Verma
- The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Verses Left by Mr. Pope poem – Alexander Pope
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- Алексей Плещеев – Песня
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
- There Pass the Careless People poem – A. E. Housman
- Aubade by William Shakespeare
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