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Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
(March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998 / Mexico City)
Poems by Octavio Paz : 4 / 16
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.
Poems by Octavio Paz : 4 / 16
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Poem Submitted: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Poem Edited: Thursday, November 3, 2011
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To and fro! ! ! The day wavers along.
Thanks for sharing this poem with us.(Report)Reply
The moment scatters, Motionless
I stay and go, I am a pause" .
Excellent expression deserving modern poem of the Day.(Report)Reply
First, since Paz wrote in Spanish, the translator should be credited. As to what’s posted here, I never had a notion to represent a pause, and if I did, I don’t know that much of what I would choose would resemble what Paz uses. But I find his images appealing and most relate to the last two stanzas. -GK(Report)Reply
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.......psychologically sound. A beautiful poem is amazingly shared. It is nice that this poem has been selected as modern poem thrice of the poem of the day.(Report)Reply
everything is
in nothing! ! !
again
nothing is
in everything! ! !
illusion
delusion
born from dead; dies on birth!(Report)Reply
absolutely loving the imagery and depth of this poem(Report)Reply
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.
great wrote
great 10++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++(Report)Reply
Beautiful poem.well penned I stay and go I am a pause.... marvelous!(Report)Reply
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