Best Borges Poems

dreamlike blue tiger
casts shadow onto grey sand –
marengo color

Inspired by "Blue Tigers" (“Tigres azules”) story by Jorge Luis Borges.

12.07.2019
Haiku-Hue Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Rodrigues
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Sitting outside with loose papers on my lap,
a gust blew the top two pages away.
It was a poem that contained some creatures
and the usual clouds and mists
and how fossils feel about mountains.
Like a Borges story, it contained the past and future
and how time distorts yet...

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Faceless head of coal
Below him arms swing legs steam
Over the apex of a highway bridge

The spooky figure
Cross-country skis on the concrete
Glides right to left across the frost of my windshield

Aura of sky behind this silhouette
An April rust under the rain of sunrise

I approach closer
Hope
Its face...

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