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Octavio Paz
Between Going And Coming - Poem 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.
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between coming and going slight leisure time - this is life/// (Report) Reply
I honestly do not understand this poem. Plz can anyone explain (Report) Reply
when was this poem published (Report) Reply
Nice.... it makes me think of my life and my decisions. (Report) Reply
Beautiful poetry about life.
The light turns the indifferent wall
into a ghostly theater of reflections... is very nice. (Report) Reply
So well articulated! Makes me want to continue my own work! (Report) Reply
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Lovely lines: The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause. (Report) Reply
Nice poem, but it was also chosen as poem of the day on November 17,2012 and November 17,2013.
Poem Hunter, please have some of your humans (if you have any at the website) actually read some of the recent poems and start choosing new ones for poem of the day instead of letting your computers do it. (Report) Reply
The moment scatters motionless.......how beautiful to it read is beyond expression. Great. (Report) Reply
u guys need help omg u sound like shakespier (Report) Reply
Great poem Sad he's a member of the dead poets society I would have liked to have know him. BB (Report) Reply
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
] the whole universe is in it, and I want to stay there for every line. this is something. (Report) Reply
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.
Much to illustrate the alienation. Quiet not hard to uplift ones state of mind at this stage. Poet defining fourth dimension and also showing the way to attain this certain level of truth. Magnificent. Marvelous just to feel eternally....I stay and go: I am a pause......Flag it high.
Pranab k c
10+++ (Report) Reply