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
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Christmas Trees by Robert Frost
- Mummy, mummy who invented school? by Raj Arumugam
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Стихи не на тему
- Владимир Орлов – Ковровые дорожки
- Николай Гумилев – О, если я весь мир постиг
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Wolf and the Dog by William Somervile
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- Gravity Suspended
- In Tempore Senectutis poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- Robert Burns: Tragic Fragment:
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