Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: The Zen of the High Mountain Pass

  

  Each step through the scree field must be judged on: angle, stability, slipperiness - but the flat, dry, and robust rock is the one that will roll on you -... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Veil

  

  They call it the Veil - an invisible world scaffolded against our own. The thin space between is as a two-way mirror - from the Veil we can be seen with... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: One Flower, the Sunflower

  

  If you can keep a heavy head high, and facing that bright sun - you'll be able to lose, but still feel, in a way, you've won. Sunny, still, when the clouds craw... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Landscape, Ancient & Alien

  

  It was an alien landscape, in red-brown Martian hues, but built of boulders older than the skies have known the blues - or so the locals always said. But no... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Dracula: Son of the Dragon by Mark Sable

  Amazon.in page There is a vast amount of vampiric fiction available today, and no small amount of it focuses on the character of Dracula. This graphic novel set... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Power of Mesmerism by Anonymous

  Amazon.in page Occasionally, a book comes along that is so ill-named that one needs to first discuss what the book is and isn't. If one only read this work's... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Photographer of Mauthausen by Salva Rubio

  The Photographer of Mauthausen by Salva Rubio My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Due out: September 30, 2020 This "graphic novel" tells the story of a... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Othello by William Shakespeare

  Amazon.in page "Othello" is Shakespeare's tragic take on a plot device he uses in comedies such as "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Cymbeline," and "The Winter's... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Medicine Man [Prose Poem]

  

  He was unkempt and disheveled, even by the standards of those primitive living people of the tribe. If you could find a translator to speak with his tribes-folk... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Hour of the Sun

  

  Like muscle-bounce bouncers, the twin mountains stood - ominous imposing. An hour of light per day squeezed between those broad shoulders. One hour of sunligh... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Three Tanka

  I plucking strings the player feels each note, his eyes closed he lets himself be surprised by vibrations of bone or soul II the butterfly splays its wings and... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Killing Fields

  In the last days that stony ground gave life, those great, green gifts were gained by thrust of knife. As the blood puddle spread, so went the green - trumped b... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Ouroboros of Life & Death

  

  The forest floor - strewn with damp leaf litter slightly twisted twin-pronged needles. Fungal fruiting bodies, caps sprinkled with grit, stand sentry over... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Traveler’s Senryu

  

  I hold travel plans like a stinky diaper - not like a crowbar II the mountaintop is always farther than it looks III sorry Mr. Frost, the less traveled road is ... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: What Country for Old Men? [Ottava Rima]

  

  There's more than one undiscovered country. Hamlet's is no place for old men to aim. I urge a fight for foreign shores, bluntly. Don't let false gods go... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Nature’s Spotlight [a Haibun]

  

  Under cottony clouds, my gaze fell upon the borehole by which slanted shafts of light found the ground. A divine spotlight that shone only on the liquid metal... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Sins & Skyscrapers

  

  Once mankind invented the building, we needed to see how huge one could be built - how broad how tall. If there was a Babel Tower, it's testament to the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Mountain, River, Or Mirage

  

  What is this world: mountain, river, or mirage? When one arrives at the mountain one finds a fixed collection of matter. Sure, it's slowly changing its... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Scream

  

  The scream that shears souls off like tear-away suits. On the gasp, those souls are sucked inside that wide mouth. So hot does the heat grow that it glows like ... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unfamiliar Neighbors

  

  In ancient days, it came this way, and now it's living among us. What's more, it seems, it's here to stay. It's sunk its flag and worn its ruts. It built its... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL