Berniegourley

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• Three Rolling Hill Tanka

  

  I granite domes bubble from the flat lands, earthly zit, or beauty marks written in topography II the foothills spread from the mountains like ripples, echoing... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Information Inflation

  

  What is overproduced under-desired is cheapened. We live in a world that does not want for information. Perhaps, if we had to carve our words into stone - or... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Limerick of Vietnam

  

  There was a bold florist from Vietnam who was graced in great measure with aplomb. There was nothing quite like how she rode motorbikes with eight thousand... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Poetic License

  

  Poetic License... a permit to say strange things in strange ways. It's not quite Bond's License to Kill, but, sometimes - merely by using words - one can deceiv... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Ideas, Old & New

  

  Ideas are like keys, unlocking new versions of you. It needn't be a new thought. It might take twenty-three exposures to an idea before it slips and twists to... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Reader

  

  I tore up your world, remaking it in a style that was my own. I wiped the crown from your King's head, and painted myself on the throne. Your cast kept me good... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen [Ill. by Marjolein Bastin]

  Pride and Prejudice: Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This edition out: March 2, 2021 This is a new... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Insomniac City

  

  Cities pretend to sleep. They fool us. Eyes close. Darkness settles. In the deep of the night, a city is like a kindergartener during nap time - fidgety and... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Money Shot, Vol. 1 by Tim Seeley and Sarah Beattie

  Amazon.in page This graphic novel weds a serious look at a serious problem with a raunchy romp into extraterrestrial porn. [Warning: If the latter part of that... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Snowy Haiku

  

  I snow white mountain orange in the morning sun gray under clouds II a southern cat learns to move through the snow - never to repeat III in the fresh snow a... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Limerick of the United States

  

  There was an old man from America, an expert in weather esoterica, "If you look out your window, and you see a tornado, there's a great chance that you're in... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: An Exercise in Everyday Absurdity [Prose Poem]

  At an optician's office, I was being sold a scratch-proof coating for my new eyeglasses. I usually summarily reject last-minute add-ons designed to squeeze... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Dangers of Going Too Deep

  

  I watched a bee - a rotund buzzy carpenter bee scoot its way into the deep cup of a cornflower blue sky vine blossom, nestling itself within. When it had... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Piscine Metaphysics [Prose Poem]

  

  Looking at the water's surface, seeing the reflection on display, a fuzzy and easily perturbed version of the trees beside and clouds above, I feel the watery... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Sacred Root [Ghazal]

  

  They scribble sacred statements on the wall, and climb the towers, shouting sacred calls. And, swiftly, people come from far and near to gather around at the... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Closed Eye Tanka

  

  I rustling leaves, i hear only chaos; the blind man hears a single leaf fall, hitting others as it drops II the sunshine glows on my eyelids, warms my face; i... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Madness: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Scull

  Madness: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Scull My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This is yet another of the many "Very Short Introduction" books from... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd

  Amazon.in page This graphic novel is set in a fascist, dystopian Britain that grew up in the wake of an apocalypse that left England relatively untouched but... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Riot in the Madhouse

  

  They shut down all the asylums... That's one way of looking at it. Another is that they widened them to admit us all inside. Now with the riots underway, there'... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Midnight Taco Truck

  

  Most nights, there's a rave-roving purveyor of meaty Mexican masterpieces. - cilantro lime on the side - It's drawn to the sweet unhinged by the force and cal... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL