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
- Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна (Песни жаворонков снова)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Разлука
- Composed on The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere by William Wordsworth
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Rutland Gate
- Kailangan ko’y Yakap by Melissa Sazon Flores
- “Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet. A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paulo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
- One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor
- Олег Бундур – Вид с задней парты
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- Омар Хайям – Люблю вино, ловлю веселья миг
- Федор Сологуб – Словами горькими надменных отрицаний
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).
