Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Information Madness

  Metainformation is information about information [or, sometimes, about metainformational information,] and it colors the insanity. Humanity was infected by a... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Marsh Elephants

  

  fragile herd, living in the space between Kilimanjaro's broad shoulders [too broad to see without a panning view] on an oasis of glacial melt runoff that grows ... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: I Surrender

  

  i'm free - because i know not of what i need to be freed. Is it a god? Is it a program? Is it meaninglessness? Is it a make-believe conception of... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Bangalore: A Graphic Novel by Jai Undurti, Et. Al.

  Bangalore: A Graphic Novel: Every City is a Story by Jai Undurti My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book collects nine stories communicated via comic... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: In the Dark, Soft Earth by Frank Watson

  Amazon.in page Watson's collection seizes one's senses. Much of the poetry takes an imagist approach, using free verse poems with spare language to generate... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

  The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page Out: October 6, 2020 As Homer did for the... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Shakespeare’s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction by Bart Van Es

  Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction by Bart van Es My rating: 5 of 5 stars I picked up this guide because I recently finished reading through a... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Hate by Wire

  Hate scuttles down a wire. It was sent hatefully, and received angrily. But wire knows neither hate nor love - nor does circuitry. Electrons don't. Hardware... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Haiku That Move

  

  a little rain on a little slope races seaward the world blurs, my brain strains to track its motion in stillness one loses the world's steady spin i throw mysel... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Lost @ Sea

  

  rum-dumb sailor, bobbing in the horse latitudes - dying dryly - parched, in a fluid universe he prays to the holy mother of Time - prays that she have the... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Questions of The Night Watch

  

  What creates more and bigger monsters... fear or drink? boredom or loneliness? Hell or High Water? And when the Captain points the way... How does one know... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Burdened Words

  

  Some words are words; some words are garbage trucks. They carry steaming piles of dumpster lumps, and all the rained refuse the dim can chuck. Becoming too lade... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: I Participated in Wallenberg’s Rescue Operation by Paul Marer

  

  I Participated in Wallenberg's Rescue Operations by Paul Marer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Inquiries about purchasing the book can be made here. In 1944, the Nazis... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare

  The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page King Creon of Thebes is a jerk. The play opens with three Queens... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Introducing Literary Criticism by Owen Holland

  Introducing Literary Criticism: A Graphic Guide by Owen Holland My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amazon.in page As the title and subtitle suggest, this book is an... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: White Light

  

  blinding white light, followed by: ice cream brain freeze - like a red-hot poker boring toward the pineal gland some reveled in that feeling others thought... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Hibernation’s End Haiku

  

  yellow light of the setting sun warms high branches city unlocked, birds and beasts return to the background crow perches on a cast iron railing -... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Scenes from a Park Bench

  

  In days before hell swallowed, I'd sit on a bench reading news, and watching how lead ducks followed while marching down in ones and twos. They went into shallo... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Literally, the Dumbest Poem Ever

  He held half-baked ideas in his twice-baked brain. He'd grab his umbrella when they shouted, "Make it rain!" -the umbrella he should have left for a friend stuc... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishan

  Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon.in page This book gathers twenty-eight pieces of short fiction, poetry, and creative... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL