Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• BOOK REVIEW: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

  Amazon page The story of "Twelfth Night" (a.k.a. "What You Will") revolves around several men in the city of Illyria vying for the hand of Olivia, a woman both... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Philosophical Questions Life Forces You to Answer

  

  Like it or not, life makes philosophers of us all. You may hate philosophy, but you can't escape it. You can - as many people do - outsource how you answer thes... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: False Awakening

  I wake up in a world I've never tread before. Standing in a forest, before an oaken door. The door opens with a screeching, shuddering creak. I walk into a... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unhinged

  

  a moon-made shadow sweeps, wind-borne tree branch tines race across the courtyard but trees, moons, and shadows do not race and, so, my mind time must have... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Halloween

  

  Welcome to the Masquerade! There's no reason to be afraid. Twenty belles, but just one Ball, but behind ten masks creatures trawl [a harbor called Bad... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Yeti in Shangri-La

  

  You wonder how anyone could believe in Shangri-La, like it must take damage to one's neurons or ganglia. But if there's a place I would search for Yeti high... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• My Year of Discovering How Weird the Mind Gets, Pt. X [Free Movement]

  

  This is month ten in my year of studying altered states of consciousness, and this post will be on movement and the mind. There are many downsides to being... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Truth & Beauty

  Philosophers speak of truth and beauty in the same sentence. The only connection I see is that neither can be seized tightly. Beauty blanches or crumples under... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Poetic Question

  Is a poem like a painting, a blank canvas layered with colors to form an image? Or, is a poem like a sculpture, a lump of potential carved until only that... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Terra Cognita

  I thought I knew the brick-and-mortar world, the thrill of smashing things one knew were real. But all that smashed was an electric feel projected in a... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Rocky Coast

  

  Rocky stumps jut from cold, mute seas. Land's jagged defenders. From craggy pits gnarled bonsai sprout, show of nature's splendors. Did land break up, thrust... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Haiku of Ecstatic Experience

  

  time may flow but i'm tethered to now - one feeling masterless puppet of infinite strings, tied to all music plays and I ebb and swell with no mind calm ... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Kool-Aid Gets A Bad Rap

  They say, "Don't drink the Kool-Aid!" It's because the 919 people at Jonestown who did so died of cyanide poisoning. Except they didn't. Well, they definitely... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Tree Power

  

  The Buddha became enlightened under an old fig tree Jesus prayed in Gethsemane under an olive tree Isaac Newton's epiphany came under an apple tree If you... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Pondy

  

  Brightly colored bougainvillea, topping the stuccoed walls. A sea breeze blows in from the Bay, and through the market stalls From Auroville down to the back-... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Summertime Haiku

  

  sun shimmer, flashing off the waves, summer drifts tall grass, from green to tawny, summer's span shady creek between pines and pasture: sun escape desolate:... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Notes on Being an Introvert: Or, Weird

  

  Most people turn a spigot to control the flow of the informational self. Opening the valve at will, and adjusting the flow as the pipe diameter allows. I have... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: As You Like It by William Shakespeare

  Amazon page This play tells the tale of Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled Duke whose dominion was usurped by his brother, Fredrick. Rosalind goes into the... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Legacy

  i blacked out on the launch pad so, if you came to see me soar sorry you had to hear me snore i'll not, today, become the fad i remember my dear, old dad he... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Nonsense

  pounding out a soul song read it right, don't get it wrong wait for cops to come along and move me back to my cell there is an iron kind of hell i heard the... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL