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
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Развалины
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell poem – John Keats poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – Гусь и змия
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman
- Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги”
- Among Children by Philip Levine
- The Wheel by William Butler Yeats
- Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
- Ольга Седакова – Преданья о подвижниках похожи
Some external links:
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).
