Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Excuse! Who Uses This Loo?

  

  I hate to be among the few who don't use the new and improved, but I've been seeing public toilets with three glass walls - only the wet wall is tiled. True,... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: To Meet Or Greet Grendel

  

  In ancient days, men followed monsters home, and knocked on doors to netherworld chambers - went kicking over the beast's garden gnomes, went barging around bac... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

  Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Project Gutenberg page DON QUIXOTE is among the earliest novels, and -... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Places Lost and Found Ed. Ronald Koury

  Places Lost and Found: Travel Essays from the Hudson Review by Ronald Koury My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: September 30, 2020 If good travel writin... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Changing Times

  

  A city lies under the sea, from unknown tragedy. Ancient pillars stand still and tall. Could we lose a city? If we did, there'd be no sign; it'd be washed to... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Rocketed by Book

  

  I donned this book like sunglasses to tweak my old worldview, but that intent was overshot and I saw all anew. I peered at the page and there saw another... Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Scrapping Labels

  The brain wants to slap a label on everything it comes in contact with - good... bad pleasurable... painful smart... dumb naughty... nice Having reached the tim... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Kyōka

  

  I the post-perched bird remains still, but for its eyes, which dart about - below, fish shoot and jink, thinking the post oddly shaped II the mountains reflect... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the T’ang Poet Han-Shan

  Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan by Hanshan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This brief collection gathers one hundred poems... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford

  Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Mumford My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Metaphysics is a subject that gets complicated quickly. Like... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Boys, Vol. 1: The Name of the Game by Garth Ennis

  The Boys, Volume 1: The Name of the Game by Garth Ennis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page If you weren't familiar with this comic book, you've probably at... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody

  Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, author, and critic, and... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Painted River

  

  I walked beside that gray river; fog blurred the trees of the far bank. The grass and ground were wetted down as if the clouds had crashed that night and... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Seeking Union

  

  The dangling vine curls at its end - a hook in search of hold. The breezes bounce and sway that hook - 't looks blindly pushed and pulled. But that creeper 's... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Rainy Day Rambling Brain

  

  Sitting on the balcony, watching the rain, I see spreading concentric rings ping into each other in the puddles below. The expanding rings of big drops swamp... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Cataract Haiku

  

  I thundering falls sing a mind into trance - timeless sound II nearing the falls, the grand spectacle becomes a fog wall III yamabushi sit under the cascade -... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

  Amazon.in page Out: November 3, 2020 I'm a sucker for down-the-rabbit-hole alternative world fiction. Kingfisher's version is eerie and dark, as opposed to the... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Dracula, Motherf**ker by Alex De Campi

  Amazon.in page This short story in graphic novelized form imagines a Dracula who has been trapped in his coffin since the post-Bram Stoker story time period... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: An Exercise in Walking Blindly

  I walked up to the window - eyes closed. The explosions of irregular shapes settled into an even sheet of orange - a warm and comforting hue. It became more... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: One Tree

  

  In this land of tropical green, there is one tree timed to north lands. Its leaves turn red from deepest green, and fall as if to season's plans. They fall not... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL