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A Homage To Borges ~

{To Pramod} 

From the solitary Library Of Babel
Where the infinite libraries fuse together
Radiating into primordial architectures
I unearthed your rare treasures ~
Now that I have
They turn our common heritage
Our ageless pages of The Book Of Sand ~

Achilles and tortoises tentatively resolve
Zeno’s paradoxes of yonder breezing through
The stormy spider mizmazes
In the mystery universes of infinitesimals
Concealed in the magic of point references
Concealed in the linear nature of terruvial time ~
Cretan’s paradox of self-reference
Retains its primal paradoxical nature
Parodying Itself ~
The primal semantics is inevitably
A self-evident self-parody ~ a sacred tautological silence ~

We will evade infinitely regressing arguments
Of the dream within a dream within a dream ~~~~~
From the Raamaayana and The Arabian Nights
And the two ageless mirrors facing each other for ever
Proceed in the timeless faith
Of the key sound-word-cadence
That knows it All resolves it All ~

Sometimes
Wandering through these Circular Ruins
Through the Garden Of Forking Paths
I suffer Funes’s agonizing memory ~
Protean Golem drifts from tale to tale
Freshly disguised every new day ~
All the mythologies parables cosmologies fables are
This moment of no-reference ~
God Bless this point Of Infinite Imaginings ~

I may never see Buenos Aires
Yet Buenos Aires now is part of my vast fable ~
I have re-cognized strange labyrinths of Tlon
Through your non-seeing eyes
Discovering the stars mirrors and roses anew
Discovering the dubious topology of a one–sided coin
Discovering the arithmetic irony of the Babylonian lottery
Sensing a rare geometric smell of the word
Through your chaste etymological meanderings ~

Before I move away
Into another Cosmic Envelope
Into another primeval ecological niche
Become another Imaginary Being
In the book of infinite beings of imaginations
[which I am sure all Beings do]
I must thank my friend
For leading me to your quiet shelf
In The Library Of Babel ~

Honestly I do not possess
A copy of The Book Of Sand ~
If I really did
Why should I wander through
these never ending corridors
of The Library Of Babel ~

Here lies completed
Another inevitable page
In the Book Of Sand ~
I wonder where it rests
Safely in the Library Of Babel ~
Here!?

Circa 1991 ~

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Notes ~

This poem written was a surprise to me because there were
about 25 references to Borges’s works and life in this one
~ I had read Borges-Stories many years ago and his
wonderful poetry came in as a great later surprise for me ~
I read poems in the “Selected Poems” ~ There were many poems on other poets and people too ~ This inspired me to try a few poems on people and writers I admired ~ But This One on Borges Himself is my favourite ~ To Borges fans my notes are superfluous ~ But to one who is unfamiliar Borgesian Literature it may give some hints ~


Jorge Luis Borges ~[1899-199?] Argentine Scholar Genius Short Story Writer Poet Orator Conversationalist!! Blind for most latter part of his life ~ Amazing Scholar ~ Librarian ~ Wrote Mostly in Spanish ~ A few English poems were also written by him ~

“Library Of Babel “ ~ A Short Story By Borges ~
“The Book Of Sand” ~ A Short Story By Borges [The Book That Contains All The Books]
“The Babylonian Lottery” ~ A Short Story By Borges
“The Garden Of Forking Paths” ~ A Short Story By Borges
“The Circular Ruins” ~ A Short Story By Borges


“Tlon” refers to a Borges short story "Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius" where the external world is what everybody wants it to be! A great Story ~
“Funes” refers to another Borges short story "Funes The Memorious" where Funes has Infinite memory ~
“One-sided coin” too is from another Borges Short story ~
“Golem” “stars” “mirrors” “Zeno’s paradoxes” are Borgesian Obsessions which I also share ~
“Book Of Imaginary Beings” is the name of a book by Borges ~

These notes are made from memory ~ Exact year of Borges’s Death is not in my memory ~ 199? ~ I wish Borges read this poem on Borges!

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