Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Vanishing Time

  

  It's mid-month. But how? Where are all those days? Once upon a time, days were shoved neatly into rows - like tiles in a perfect pattern... weren't they? Now,... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: 100 Things to Do in the Forest by Jennifer Davis

  100 Things to Do in a Forest by Jennifer Davis My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page I'm a big fan of any book that works to get people to experience nature.... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Gospel in Dickens Ed. by Gina Dalfonzo

  The Gospel in Dickens: Selections from His Works by Charles Dickens My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book captured my attention because (I must... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Escape Velocity

  

  The need for new experience burns brightly gummed into these walls daily and nightly. I think back to my great escapes first road-trip blown interstate - like... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Hero’s Journey Through Memory

  I crossed into the long-lost land of my youthful mind, seeking a boon - missed amid youthful buffoonery, or lodged within the machinery. But I tripped into so... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Marooned

  

  wracked shattered - crawling ashore sputtering coughing - clawing the sand i roll like the detritus lapped by waves, but more spastically - not with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

  

  Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Project Gutenberg page This is a tragic take on a premise similar to that of "The... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Temple Red

  

  The walls were painted temple red. This dream was just that kind of dream. I saw no feeders nor the fed, but my deep mind followed that stream of color from... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Fragile & Ephemeral Haiku

  

  I a breeze tousles branches then, in stillness, red leaves cascade downward II hawk and half-moon in one blue, morning sky then clouds come III pine tree tips... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Leaf in the Light

  

  i see a leaf amid leaves the tree is covered in creepers these leaves churn out power - silently - each leaf making miniscule food, but there are so many - and... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Terror Háza Múzeum, Budapest

  This museum, located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, was used by both the Arrow Cross Militia (i.e. the Hungarian fascists during WWII) and the ÁV... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Timely Tempest?

  

  Savage winds hit like a ramming shoulder. Pelting rains sting like sand-blast on pink skin. Dipping ships drop from sight of their beholders. Soft sounds compil... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Five [More] City Limericks

  

  There was a worker from Detroit who - in his job - was quite adroit. They said he had powers - a thousand nuts an hour, but it's not like he could enjoy't. Ther... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: What Is This Thing Called Beauty?

  

  We see beauty in nature, but we see more in nature reigned in - kept in check by the hand of man. Why should a fresh-cut patch of grass please the eye more... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Rainforest Haiku

  

  clouds crawl in, hiding whole mountains - i await, "Ta-Da!" sun comes out, flash-boiling droplets - steam breathing life abounds, it's max. occupancy living;... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want

  Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This volume is part of a large series of guides that are put ou... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Spine

  

  Flex forward and a row of rounded, fleshy knobs form in that muscled valley - straight and evenly-spaced. Chest up shoulders back and the knobs shrink,... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Claustrophobic Shores [Blank Verse Sonnet]

  

  The rain bands slant across the narrow track between the leaden clouds and churning seas. The vastness, standing before ocean's edge, is boxed by rain, low... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unceasing Jungle

  

  The jungle paints the ruins green - brown blocks are made verdant. So, you can't see its ordered shape 'til you part the curtain of palms and vines and mammoth... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mind Floater

  An idea drifts in my mind's periphery. It's the mental version of an eye squiggly - those translucent, sinuous shapes that... -barely register in one's field... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL