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Branka Babic

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INSTANTS by Jorge Luis Borges
3/11/2010 12:29:26 AM



Instants


If I could live again my life,
In the next - I'll try,
- to make more mistakes,
I won't try to be so perfect,
I'll be more relaxed,
I'll be more full - than I am now,
In fact, I'll take fewer things seriously,
I'll be less hygenic,
I'll take more risks,
I'll take more trips,
I'll watch more sunsets,
I'll climb more mountains,
I'll swim more rivers,
I'll go to more places - I've never been,
I'll eat more ice creams and less (lime) beans,
I'll have more real problems - and less imaginary
ones,
I was one of those people who live
prudent and prolific lives -
each minute of his life,
Offcourse that I had moments of joy - but,
if I could go back I'll try to have only good moments,

If you don't know - thats what life is made of,
Don't lose the now!

I was one of those who never goes anywhere
without a thermometer,
without a hot-water bottle,
and without an umberella and without a parachute,

If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I'll ride more carts,
I'll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,
- and I know that I am dying ...

Jorge Luis Borges
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RE: INSTANTS by Jorge Luis Borges
3/11/2010 12:40:54 AM

Hey Hey Branka!

So True My Friend... A Great Poem... Thanks for sharing!

Hugs and Blessings,

Alain

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Branka Babic

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RE: INSTANTS by Jorge Luis Borges
3/11/2010 1:24:00 AM
Hi Alain,

Borges is one of those geniuses to whom I ... simply belong. Look at next poem :


History of the Night

Throughout the course of th generations
men constructed the night.
At first she was blindness;
thorns raking bare feet,
fear of wolves.
We shall never know who forged the word
for the interval of shadow
dividing the two twilights;
we shall never know in what age it came to mean
the starry hours.
Others created the myth.
They made her the mother of the unruffled Fates
that spin our destiny,
thev sacrificed black ewes to her, and the cock
who crows his own death.
The Chaldeans assigned to her twelve houses;
to Zeno, infinite words.
She took shape from Latin hexameters
and the terror of Pascal.
Luis de Leon saw in her the homeland
of his stricken soul.
Now we feel her to be inexhuastible
like an ancient wine
and no one can gaze on her without vertigo
and time has charged her with eternity.


And to think that she wouldn't exist
except for those fragile instruments, the eyes.

Jorge Luis Borges


And now when think a little better, he is so very much deserved for my (truly sobering) approach to the Gods.
What are Gods?

Our beliefs.
Or as J.L.Borges stated here :

"Throughout the course of th generations
men constructed the night..."

Hugs,

B.
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Branka Babic

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RE: INSTANTS by Jorge Luis Borges
3/11/2010 1:29:11 AM
For this poem I couldn`t find English translation. For those who do not understand, maybe our very own Miguel can help (I know he is always too busy).


The young writer is photographed outdoors.

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El Instante


Dónde estarán los siglos, dónde el sueño
de espadas que los tártaros soñaron,
dónde los fuertes muros que allanaron,
dónde el Árbol de Adán y el otro Leño?
El presente está solo. La memoria
erige el tiempo. Sucesión y engaño
es la rutina del reloj. El año
no es menos vano que la vana historia.
Entre el alba y la noche hay un abismo
de agonías, de luces, de cuidados;
el rostro que se mira en los gastados
espejos de la noche no es el mismo.
El hoy fugaz es tenue y es eterno;
otro Cielo no esperes, ni otro Infierno.

Jorge Luis Borges
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RE: INSTANTS by Jorge Luis Borges
3/11/2010 2:42:04 AM

Yes Branka!

The Power of the Mind... of Thoughts to Create!

Hugs,

Alain

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