3 Poems - Borges
For my ongoing course titled 'Labyrinthine Dreams' on Jorge Luis Borges's stories and poetry, we're reading three poems for class discussion.
Here are the poems: Rubaiyat, Someone and The Enigmas.
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The Lay of the Three
A word game and an image game. A word game of creating portmanteaus of Greek origin words suffixed with phobia. An image game of finding these phobias in imaginary tales. We live our lives in fear or in search of fear. We look for them in other people and in
I Am All
I am all. And all is me. This street in an ancient town has killed many and saved many. Don't look for order and justice and goodness. Look only for the dim yellow light.
Svabhava
I was travelling to Konya in late winter on a clear morning. The fields on the sides of the road were light brown. And far off on the horizon, a little house, barely visible. Perhaps, the house of the farmer tending to these fields.
We, The Condemned
I took the image of the semazen (in the cover) during a sublime performance in a caravanserai.