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
- Wisdom by William Butler Yeats
- Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan.
- Gray Dawn by Satish Verma
- Dream Girl by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Люцерн
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
- Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
- Robert Burns: The Calf: To the Rev. James Steven, on his text, Malachi, ch. iv. vers. 2. “And ye shall go forth, and grow up, as Calves of the stall.”
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение это
- Омар Хайям – Если гурия страстно целует в уста
- Омар Хайям – Будь все добро мое кирпич один, в кружало
- Владимир Маяковский – ПОДХОДИ, ТОВАРИЩ, СМОТРИ ЛУЧШЕ… (Главполитпросвет №69)
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
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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).
