Between going and staying
the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
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Profound poem chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Modern Poem Of The Day. Full marks
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.
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
Excellent! My favourite lines: All is visible and all elusive/all is near and can't be touched.
'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!
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
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;
Found this poem has been selected as the modern poem of the poem of the day for second time. Congratulations.
Beautiful! So refreshingly reflective and eloquent in its expressions. Between come and go we are a pause.......
Beautiful words that illuminate the poet's theatre of the mind...Thank you for sharing.
This is superb a poem of such expressiveness yes the pause the between states great write from a great poet.
This is very outstanding so brilliantly crafted I am speechless 10++++
Awesome Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their names
To and fro! ! ! The day wavers along. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
The moment scatters, Motionless I stay and go, I am a pause" . Excellent expression deserving modern poem of the Day.
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
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.
The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause...... amazing concluding. Beautiful poem.