Friday, October 24, 2014

Between Going And Coming Comments

Rating: 3.9

Between going and staying
the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
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Octavio Paz
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Kumarmani Mahakul 12 June 2024

The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause...... amazing concluding. Beautiful poem.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 May 2024

Profound poem chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Modern Poem Of The Day. Full marks

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 May 2024

CONT: and emphasizes the tension between perception and reality. Unlike Paz's grand themes in other works, this poem stands out for its condensed and introspective nature.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 19 May 2024

The poem revolves around stillness, introspection, and the interplay between inner and outer worlds. Through vivid imagery, the poem captures the fleeting nature of time

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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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Mahtab Bangalee 03 September 2020

All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can’t be touched. .... Time throbbing in my temples repeats the same unchanging syllable of bIood.....Ow fantastically crafted the pure feelings of life, death, earth, time and peoples mental condition;

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Kumarmani Mahakul 03 September 2020

Found this poem has been selected as the modern poem of the poem of the day for second time. Congratulations.

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Savita Tyagi 03 September 2020

Beautiful! So refreshingly reflective and eloquent in its expressions. Between come and go we are a pause.......

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Kenneth Maswabi 03 September 2020

Beautiful words that illuminate the poet's theatre of the mind...Thank you for sharing.

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Paul Brookes 03 September 2020

This is superb a poem of such expressiveness yes the pause the between states great write from a great poet.

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Deepak Kumar Pattanayak 03 September 2020

This is very outstanding so brilliantly crafted I am speechless 10++++

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Poetic Sky 28 August 2020

Awesome Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their names

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Edward Kofi Louis 03 September 2019

To and fro! ! ! The day wavers along. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Ratnakar Mandlik 03 September 2019

The moment scatters, Motionless I stay and go, I am a pause" . Excellent expression deserving modern poem of the Day.

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Glen Kappy 03 September 2019

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

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Kumarmani Mahakul 03 September 2019

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.

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