Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Insight: Or, The Benefits of Meditation

  

  Once, tsunami waves crashed ashore, catching me off-guard. In wonder of just what'd hit me, I'd sit - soaked and scarred. The more I'd sit, watching my world,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Alien Stories by E.C. Osondu

  Amazon.in page Out: May 11, 2021 This collection of short stories by Nigerian author, E.C. Osondu, examines the alien life. While many of the pieces use... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Best Fairy Stories of the World Ed. by Marcus Clapham

  Best Fairy Stories of the World by Marcus Clapham My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book collects sixty-two well-known fairy and folk tales. While... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Challenge of Self-Knowing

  

  some swans think themselves ducks some ducks think themselves swans some fawns think themselves bucks some gold thinks itself bronze the static thinks itself... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Clear Skies & Cold Water [Haibun]

  

  Crisp air and clear skies freshen the senses, injecting one into a world more real than one has felt before. Cerulean skies, free of contrails, feel close at... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Where Breath Isn’t Free

  

  Woe is the place where breath isn't free - underwater, metaphorically or literally. A cement-shoe walk through the pond, looking up to the blurred and shimmerin... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Teachings of the Buddha Ed. by Jack Kornfield

  Teachings of the Buddha: Revised and Expanded Edition by Jack Kornfield My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This is a collection of excerpts and short... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Life Behind the Veil

  

  Those who wished to see but not be seen would sit and see the world through carved screens, taking in the thriving market scenes, watching hunched women sweep... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Kindred Spirits [Prose Poem]

  

  Sitting with my wife at the breakfast table this morning, I was struck by the realization that human beings and seedless watermelons have something important... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Turvy Town [Sonnet]

  

  In our town, soundless sounds abound. The right are wrong; the sighted, blind. The king is fired, and peasants crowned. The waters plowed; the sky is... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Black Skies [Rondeau Quatrain]

  

  I saw the black skies up ahead, but hoped they'd clear as I approached. I hoped they'd clear as I approached. I saw those black skies up ahead. And from the... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Mountain Trail Tanka

  

  I yellow flowers, along the trailside, wave in the breeze; butterflies flit with random purpose II grazing livestock trim the trail corridor golf course neat;... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Intolerable Status Quo

  

  They say that every story begins with an intolerable status quo. Who it's intolerable for is an open question. Maybe it's the protagonist... Maybe not. [Some... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Hyperqueryitis

  

  When I was a young boy, earlier than I can remember, I caught hyperqueryitis - a permanent affliction denoted by a propensity to ask "too many damned... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Fall, Vol. 1 by Jared Muralt

  Amazon.in page Out: March 17, 2021 I'm really curious about how this book will do. On the one hand, the writer / artist does an incredible job of creating a... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Marvel’s Black Panther: Sins of the King by Ira Madison III, Et. Al.

  Marvel's Black Panther: Sins of the King by Ira Madison III My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: January 28, 2021 The edition that I'm reviewing... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: I, Ghost

  

  cobble stones lonely roads built before I was born i walk them - not seeing the ghosts, and thus feeling that I'm the ghost - a hot-future injected menace... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A 100 Word Sentence on the Risks of High Speed Karma

  

  Mikey stole a motorbike, a high-revving rice rocket, weaving through traffic, leaning this way and that, quickly dodging the slow and the still, riding toward a... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth

  Amazon.in page This novella is sold independently, but is also included with "Zuckerman Bound," a collected trilogy of books written by Philip Roth that... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Disaster Inc. #1 by Joe Harris

  Amazon.in page Out: February 24, 2021 This story revolves around the practice of dark tourism, visiting edgy sights - disaster zones, crime-ridden areas, war... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL