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
- THE WHEELS by Satish Verma
- Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
- Mowgli’s Song Against People by Rudyard Kipling
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. by William Cowper
- Алексей Плещеев – Сердцу
- Михаил Лермонтов – Бартеневой
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Любовь, любовь! веселым днем)
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
- At Sea poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Storm by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Vaudois by William Wordsworth
- Expressive Moments by Pamela Griffiths
- kaleidoscopic whorled wide web. by matthew scott harris
- Moonrise poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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