Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Harvest on the Farm [Ottava Rima]

  

  My memories of autumn are clearest - the harvest time, when fields had turned amber, with desiccated stalks - devoid of spirits. And in the grain, we children... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Figure

  

  little nubs in a rounded spine, subtle hollows between muscles; we lazily build with sharp corners - corners that don't exist in the backbones of beauty as we... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Epistemic Hungry Ghost

  

  blocks of knowledge sit in rubble piles, having been coveted, hunted, and horded, they sit in rubble piles the Epistemic Hungry Ghost is too busy gathering... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Visiting Dystopia [Triolet]

  

  I opened up a book to a strange land. A storied portal let me travel through, and I looked down an unknown city's strand. I'd opened up a book to a strange land... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Ballistic Art

  

  Nothing redraws itself like a desert. From day to day, the dunes are ever changed. Those shifting sands won't ever revert; they wander without aim, as if... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Confessions of a Closet Luddite

  

  Some people dream of shoving a boss in front of an inbound train. My own fantasies run to the smashing of computers and phones into a fine - if toxic - dust. I... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Fairy Tale Canyon

  

  Down in the Fairy Tale Canyon hides a dragonesque companion. Its spine plates jut from rusty sands in this ill-known Silk Route badlands. If you see the ground... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Contrarian Bear

  

  There once was a bear named Jerry, and - like the nursery rhyme Mary - Jerry Bear was quite contrary. "Those salmon should not swim upstream." "The people I bit... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Kyōka of Animal Aggression

  

  I three monkeys look down from a high branch; one throws a pit; a tourist dodges left, right into the pit's path II a goose struts, then wheels about - wings... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Raging Canyon [Virelai]

  

  The scrub and tumble weed are scant against colorful sands. The burning heat will ensure rants while crossing desert lands. The heat is felt, and rage... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Coming Down the Mountain

  

  every heavy step an act of resistance against the indefatigable force of gravity - hell on the knees - why does everyone think coming down the mountain is bette... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Sprawl

  

  cities grow outward like angry amoeba - false-feet stretching down the motorway corridors, and developing tumors that will metastasize into cities of their... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: House of M by Brian Bendis

  Amazon.in page This book pics up in the wake of a tragedy triggered by Wanda Maximoff's (a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch) descent into madness. Normally, a losing one'... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Neil Gaiman Library, Vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman

  The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 3 by Neil Gaiman My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: June 1, 2021 This series collects short fiction of Neil Gaiman and... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Adrenaline Spike

  

  a hot spike of adrenaline sluices into my blood not a shot, a squirt, or a drip, but an adamant flood if you can find someone who gives you that kind of... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Cabin Trap [Sonnet]

  

  I snatch a coat from hook on my way out. The gusting winds are rattling the panes. The sad line of tracks, when I wheel about, suggests I've made little by way... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Teaching Artfully by Meghan Parker

  Amazon.in page Out: May 4, 2021 in India (It may be out already where you live.) While I'm not an art teacher and this book is clearly directed at art... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Range by David Epstein

  Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page The human world has been shaped in large part by... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Cliffside Dwarf Tree

  

  From out a rocky mountainside juts a sinewy limb. Its existence appears brutal and its future ever grim. It hangs on by roots pinned in rock dangling over the... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• ESSAY: This I Believe [Including My Views on Unicorns]

  Occasionally, I'm asked whether I BELIEVE some idea or BELIEVE in X [i.e. fill in the person, place, thing, or concept.] If I were to answer these questions... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL