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
- Ольга Седакова – Памяти поэта
- A Florida Ghost. by Sidney Lanier
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bonnie Earl Moray poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Цирк
- Ольга Берггольц – Разведчик
- Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- Projector by Shreekumar Varma
- Владимир Костров – Просыпаюсь от сердечной боли
- Don’t Worry by John Oxenham
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Валерий Брюсов – Филлида
- Paradise Lost: Book 08 poem – John Milton poems
- Creativity Tool – The Five Senses
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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).
