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
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Heritage by Siegfried Sassoon
- True Love by Robert Penn Warren
- Владимир Корнилов – Музыка для себя
- Rainbow Hues by Suchi Gaur
- Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Годы в былом
- The Basset-Table : An Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Григорьев – Кресло рассохлось
- Юнна Мориц – Это да, это нет
- Владимир Вишневский – Она идёт – как Восток алеет
- Convalescent poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
- Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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