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
- Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
- Insect039s Nest
- Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam
- Out from Behind this Mask. by Walt Whitman
- How to Increase Your Faith
- Олег Бундур – 1 сентября
- Childhood by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ode To Psyche poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – Для тех, кто умирает
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- The Rendezvous
- There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Contradictions poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 04 poem – John Milton poems
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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).
