Between Going And Coming Poem by Octavio Paz

Between Going And Coming

Rating: 3.8


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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Wabi Sabi 17 November 2012

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.

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M Asim Nehal 30 September 2015

Lovely lines: The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause.

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Pranab K Chakraborty 17 November 2012

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+++

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The moment scatters motionless.......how beautiful to it read is beyond expression. Great.

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Kim Barney 17 November 2014

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.

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Dr Dillip K Swain 19 February 2024

Excellent! My favourite lines: All is visible and all elusive/all is near and can't be touched.

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Kesav Venkat Easwaran 13 February 2023

closes his poem in great style. Absolute truth

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Chinedu Dike 24 January 2022

A beautiful rendition of words............

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Khairul Ahsan 03 September 2020

'The Modern Poem of the Day' - this poem certainly deserves the honor! Congratulations to the poet, posthumously! 'I find myself in the middle of an eye, watching myself in its blank stare.' - These two lines cannot have a parallel. Outstanding! 'The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause.' - What a beautiful end to the poem! A masterly mark!

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Mahtab Bangalee 03 September 2020

to this earth everyone comes and goes, everyone does everything according to own mind satisfaction- maybe someone unable to do accordingly. But this is the life where sometimes this feelings come that it's a recycling circle of this whole universe; greatly written this poem

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