Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• Poem: Waking

  

  Waking up - but uncertain from what... -awaking from sleep? -awaking from wakefulness? -awaking from life? -awaking from death? All one knows is that a threshol... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Yoga

  

  The moment when you're everything and are, at once, nothing. Time exists, but is lost to you - no lagging, nor rushing. Space is the world that expands and... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Breathing Haiku

  

  I the mountain sets my mind on each breath - thin-air teacher II air rushes in, but the sinuous seedpod merits no gasp III in the stillness, my body skips... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Day’s End Dance

  

  Patches of pink on army green - the rhododendrons bloom. In the hills of Himalaya - gone the sad winter gloom. Gone the weight of weary sinew - the soul begins... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Bone-joy Resonance

  

  A sage, throughout his cave days, whiles away the summer nights in a darkness within darkness. The tomb-like silence fades into a faint resonance. Musty... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Modernity Killed the Monster

  

  In ancient days, the monsters spoke, but were no less scary. We've made pitiful things of the unicorn and fairy. No proud, strong beast of horn and hoof - No... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEMS: Worlds, Real & Imagined

  

  People die from skin cancer - freaking out about nuclear power plants - but not freaked out about the sun enough to slather on some sunscreen. A plane crashes,... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Haiku of Bamboo

  

  old bamboo creaks, claps, and rattles new bamboo... once bats hung on swaying bamboo now cut down clustered bamboo, a dark hiding spot on sunny days flex like... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Death & Nature

  

  Don't bother to bury or burn my body - just let my bones bleach white. Throw me in a hole in the jungle - food for wild dogs, worms, and germs. Nature's truth... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage by Grant Morrison

  Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage by Grant Morrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page I'd never heard of Doom Patrol until I recently saw a... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This is one of Shakespeare's most famous works, if not the most famous love... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul

  Sins of the Cities of the Plain by Jack Saul My rating: 4 of 5 stars Project Gutenberg page This is a short work of Victorian erotica that describes the sexual... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: 30 Days of Night, Vol. 3: Run Alice Run by Steve Niles

  30 Days of Night Vol. 3: Run Alice Run by Steve Niles My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This volume picks up at the end of the vampire raid on the Los... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: 30 Days of Night, Vol. 2 by Steve Niles

  Amazon.in page [Note: this isn't the Vol. 2 that follows immediately from the original book.] I enjoyed the original three-issue "30 Days of Night" series.... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Reading Courageously

  

  If you've never been incensed, challenged, or nauseous - your reading is too safe, puny, and far, far too cautious. Reading should be a courageous act that... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Paradise Unknown

  

  In a meadow, amid a dark forest grows a grass so green it glows. Never sets foot a pilgrim or tourist. Where it lies, only an old local knows. Plus, the... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Tree Haiku

  

  two live oaks stretch toward each other - a faux hug eucalyptus, silver trunks glow warm in setting sunlight one tree field, its canopy echoes floating... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Baudrillard’s World

  What's it take to turn a symbol into something which is something [rather than symbolic of something?] Treasuries turn high-rag paper and indelible ink into... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Fantastical Forest

  

  Rounding a mountain forest trail from lee to the wet side, I walk amid mossy branches draped thick enough to hide an ogre, troll, or a dark elf - let 'lone the... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Locusts Gone Biblical

  Locusts, you were supposed to come after the hail-fire storm.The winged-buses got ambitious in their desire to swarm. Of course, pestilence of livestock... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL