Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Imagination Tree

  

  Under blue skies, the live oaks were just trees - hearty and expansive trees. But in the feeble light of waning days or the frequent forays of morning fog, the... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Wandering Off to Die

  

  And when the darkness looms we wander on our way deep into the forest and from the path we stray. A lonely way to go? I'm not sure I agree. No lonelier than a... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Psi-Lords by Fred Van Lente

  Amazon.in page Out: December 2, 2020 Four individuals find themselves with autobiographical amnesia and superpowers in an unfamiliar deep-space world. Over the... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• A Trio of Tanka

  

  I beware the wolf wearing sheep's clothing, but - more likely - you'll meet sheep wearing wolf attire while talking shit II light green leaves, in early amber... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Ethereal Hoarder [Prose Poem]

  

  Straight out of college, my first job involved strolling into the homes of strangers. This is when I learned about hoarding. Turns out, you don't have to ventur... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Czech Limerick

  

  There was a writer from the Czech Republic who only got a few of his works published. But for bleak, bureaucratic crimes he was way ahead of his times - who kne... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Voiceless Birdie Told Me

  

  Notions whispered into my mind - unheard. They're just hot-injected scraps of feeling. I seek a source in floor, wall, and ceiling, but I know that can only be... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Inferno [a.k.a. Hell] by Henri Barbusse

  Amazon.in page This is a translation of the French novel, L'Enfer, which is alternatively entitled Hell or The Inferno in various English language editions. It'... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Manga Classics Frankenstein Adapted by M Chandler

  Manga Classics Frankenstein by Mary Shelly My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: November 10, 2020 This is Mary Shelly's story adapted into a manga-style... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Spillover by David Quammen

  Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page SPILLOVER is a fascinating and in-depth... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Zen Garden Haiku

  

  I evergreens, twisted and bent to gnarled beauty II arched bridge forms a wide eye with water's mirror III the garden designed, aligned, and kempt - nature,... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Saved by the Breath [a Rondeau]

  

  My mind curls up into a Breath to wait out wild and weary thoughts about who catches and who's caught and what is scarier than Death. A toothless youth... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Beauty

  

  People prefer a face that can launch a thousand ships to one that can stop a clock. But did the clock-stopping face break the clockwork mechanism or halt the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Higher Dimensional Human Zoo

  

  The doorless door was painted on a vacant building's wall. It stood cartoonish and shabby, crooked, and far too small. I peered around the vacant room behind... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Cold Night Haiku

  

  I a winter moon is seen clearly between breath fog plumes II starry skies, through the tent flap, herald cold's bite III cold slinks in once sleep has taken... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

  Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Project Gutenberg page This is Shakespeare's telling of the tragic love... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

  The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book was written to explore the intriguing cross-cultural... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Sunday Morning Sounds

  

  Rainy morning pitter-patter sounds like a distant sizzle. Caws come from down the street. Did they drag out a bloated rat - a chubby, urban-fed beast unable to... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg

  The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: November 10, 2020 Not to be confused with the poetry... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Paradox

  

  I found myself in a space that felt, at once, claustrophobic and distressingly vast. But the experience was like viewing a necker cube - those diagrams drawn... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL