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
- Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- A HYMN TO BACCHUS by Robert Herrick
- Ольга Повещенко – Фотограф смотрит в объектив
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
- Владимир Британишский – Богаевский
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Зеленая птичка
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- Among The Sandhills
- Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns
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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).
