Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: In Praise of Mortal Enemies

  

  If you want to rewire your brain nothing beats an arch foe. If you can drop the stone between the thought and when you throw, then you can learn to keep the... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Sri Lanka Limerick

  

  There was a clever salesman from Sri Lanka who tried to decide on a corporate lingua franca. "Not Tamil," Helas said... "No Sinhala," Tamil's pled... "English? ... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Poems by Jonathan F. S. Post

  Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Today, Shakespeare is known as a... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Rejection

  

  I washed up on the same shore from which I had tried to swim. I breathed so hard, but couldn't recoup a face that wasn't grim. The currents toyed with me, but... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Aster of Pan by Merwan

  Amazon.in page Out: Individual issues are available now, but this edition comes out on February 16, 2021. This is one of the most compelling graphic novels... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill

  Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction by Malcolm Gaskill My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Witches, like ninja, so excite the popular imagination that... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris

  Introducing Joyce: A Graphic Guide by David Norris My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This guide provides a concise overview of the life and work of James... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Crow in a Combative Stance

  

  metallic beak - rough striations worn smooth like rough iron, burnished feet planted wide- one fore one back, in a combative stance head low - beak pointed... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Raptor Rising [Sonnet]

  

  A raptor climbs: it spirals higher and higher, and what a chunk of world it must now see. What's it like to be that vanishing flyer? Does it feel fear, or does... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: No Offense, Mr. Mosquito

  Hey there, Mr. Mosquito, 'fraid to say, you've gotta go. Sure, Black Death is on the flea, but you've bought us fevers: Yellow, Nile, and Dengue. And that's jus... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Ekstasis of a Warm Bed [in a Cold, Snowy Land]

  

  -To watch powder cling to sill and muntin through the frosted panes, but not be chilled by that crisp whiteness -To slacken on the back of spastic release -... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Plummeting Arrow [Triolet]

  

  That arrow can't be meant for me though it plummets toward my chest. This is no time to turn and flee - that arrow can't be meant for me. If I ran now, who woul... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Richard II by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page This is a dramatization of the last couple years of the deposed King's life. It is written entirely in verse, which is not the norm for... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Vision #1 by Tom King

  Amazon.in page This issue imagines a family of superpowered androids moving into suburban Washington DC, into a neighborhood where the denizens are the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Lulled into the End Times

  

  The criers are calling, "The End is nigh!" as boats are languidly rolling offshore. Their sway, it sings a kind of lullaby, and by rocket glare, I begin to... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Ugly Kyōka

  

  I a gnarled branch twists its sinewy limb from a crag; its grotesque beauty reminds me of me II reflections on the rice paddies show the sky in an angry gray,... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unsuspecting: Or, Lucretia’s Plight

  He sits outside and tells the tale, but never lets her know the story features future her, and hopes for a hero. She'll play the lover and the mother made wise... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Song on the Wind

  

  hope is a song on the wind that never makes an echo it climbs to where the air is thin that's where it lets the song go it rains to earth in tonks and tinks no... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Art of Impossible by Steven Kotler

  The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer by Steven Kotler My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: January 19, 2021 Steven Kotler's new book, "The Ar... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Synesthesia

  

  cool patterns radiate off the back wall sunshine screams through the transom i cringe at the taste of red #4, but don't know whether it's red's stench or the... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2021 SOCIETY, TRAVEL