Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Ancients

  

  They chiseled temples out of mountains - all removed but what they found sacred, featuring figures svelte and naked. Those stones know chants loud and... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Freiheit! by Andrea Grosso Ciponte

  Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: March 4, 2021 This tragic story tells the tale of... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: King John by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page King John is one of Shakespeare's earliest histories (if not his first,) but is not among his better-known plays. That said, it mixes comedy and... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Clerihew of American Literary Greats

  

  I Edgar Allan Poe always lacked for dough. Still, he always strived to not be buried alive. II Emily Dickinson lived a bit like a nun, but her verse was... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The World According to a Reader

  I've built cities in my brain, cities that no one would recognize. I've danced around Dublin with Dedalus and Bloom, but no Dubliner would recognize his fair... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Five Tiny Haiku

  

  I the forest, seen from a child's height, shares secrets II lifting leaves, I find a pale, sad sprout ready to rise III sunflower seed: carried across the... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Faces & Places of My Dreams

  

  I once read that one never dreams: -a place one hasn't been, or -a face one hasn't seen. This is either false, or I've been a lot of places: -of which I've no... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: An Incomplete List of Names by Michael Torres

  An Incomplete List of Names: Poems by Michael Torres My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This collection consists of autobiographical free verse poetry. Abou... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Poems to Night by Rainer Maria Rilke [Trans. Will Stone]

  Amazon.in page Out: March 2, 2021 This is a new English translation of Rilke's 1916 collection of poems themed around the night. It includes the twenty-two poem... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Flood [a Triolet]

  

  The pounding rain will ease, but still the flood follows. The gale becomes a breeze. That pounding rain will ease! And stillness tames the trees while runoff... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Creeping Colonization

  

  The tender end of a creeper - whip thin, light-green, and curling - cantilevers itself across a chasm, reaching toward our balustrade. It pretends to be blown b... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: An Angelic Take on Time

  

  "We, who move through this world, have varied gifts," said the angelic figure who saw the world without time. She could hold infinite temporal cross-sections... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page Caius Marcius Coriolanus is a brilliant General, and when war is afoot, he's beloved by his Roman countrymen. However, in times of peace, he's... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: iZOMBIE, VOL. 1: DEAD TO THE WORLD by Chris Roberson

  iZombie, Vol. 1: Dead to the World by Chris Roberson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page "iZombie" is the story of Gwen, a zombie who works as a... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Cut Worm

  

  Blake said, "The cut worm forgives the plow." This might make me wonder whether the plowman gains the same grace, but I don't think one can comprehend... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Kink Ed. by R.O. Kwon & Garth Greenwell

  Amazon.in page Out: February 9, 2021 This is a collection of fourteen erotic short stories with a common theme of asymmetric power dynamics. [That's an... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Travel by Undertow

  

  Welcome to the undertow! There're eight ways to freedom, but only one that you can go. It's down, down - while spinning 'round, feeling the stretch in the... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Silent Forest

  

  What's leached the life from these lands? Winter snuck in. True enough. But that doesn't mean a bird can't hoot, caw, screech, or titter. We may be too deep in... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

  Amazon.in page This is an oldie (originally published in 1989,) but I just got to it and must say that it's one of the most skillfully crafted novels I've read... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Boys, Vol. 2: Get Some by Garth Ennis

  The Boys, Volume 2: Get Some by Garth Ennis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This volume continues the Garth Ennis series that takes as its premise that... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL