WAIT A MINUTE.
DON'T FORGET
WE'RE DIFFERENT.
DON'T FORGET
WE'RE DIFFERENT.
Poem for Today - Tuesday, June 17, 2014
WIND, WATER, STONE
Water hollows stone,
wind scatters water,
stone stops the wind.
Water, wind, stone.
Wind carves stone,
stone’s a cup of water,
water escapes and is wind.
Stone, wind, water.
Stone, wind, water.
Wind sings in its whirling,
water murmurs going by,
unmoving stone keeps still.
Wind, water, stone.
Each is another and no other:
crossing and vanishing
through their empty names:
Water, stone, wind.
© Octavio Paz
For Rober Caillois
Pages 504-505 in
The Collected Poems
of Octavio Paz
1957-1987
VIENTO, AQUA, PIEDRA
El agua horada la piedra,
el viento dispersa el agua,
la piedra detiene al viento.
Agua, viento, piedra.
El viento esculpe la piedra,
la piedra e scopa del agua,
el agua escapa y es viento.
Piedra, viento, agua.
El viento en sus giros canta,
el agua al andar murmura,
la piedra inmovil se calla.
Viento, agua, piedra.
Uno es otro y es niguno:
entre sus nombres vacios
pasan y se desvanecen
agua, piedra, viento.
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