Berniegourley

LATEST ARTICLES ( 3743 )

• POEM: Missed Message

  I heard the Buddha from the banks of a river gently flowing. Long before throngs swelled his ranks, in the days of heaven knowing. I sought the ferryman to... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Mile of Murder

  

  On a moonlit midnight - between the bands of rain - stretched a mile of murder. Marched through the night to keep day roads clear for troops, Fascists sought... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: A Mile of Murder

  

  On a moonlit midnight - between the bands of rain - stretched a mile of murder. Marched through the night to keep day roads clear for troops, Fascists sought... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Coitus Chronicles by Olive Persimmon

  

  The Coitus Chronicles: My Quest for Sex, Love, and Orgasms by Olive B. Persimmon My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page In the midst of a five-year dry spell of... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Traveling Companion

  

  On mountain trails, the sound of running water - burbling or rushing - is a stalwart companion. Even the rushing water, rushes lazily, having surrendered to... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Momentary Stillness

  

  My mind 's a leaf swept on mud brown waters. Calm water, swift water, running to the sea. Twisting, sliding, nudged, bumped, and hung up. Dipping, gliding, but... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• My Year of Discovering How Weird the Mind Gets, Part VI [Breathwork]

  

  This month's post will explore breath as an influence on one's state of consciousness. My apologies for getting into the weeds at the start with a long... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• 5 Posthumous Gods of Literature; And, How to Become One

  

  There have been many poets and authors who - for various reasons - never attracted a fandom while alive, but who came to be considered among the greats of... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal

  

  Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page The provocative title of thi... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Burning Man

  

  Pile my sins up over that fire, and singe the sins you find most soft. Though I'll not hop upon your pyre, but sin the sin I sinned most oft. Burn me like an... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Unfortunate Resting Place

  

  Spanish moss drapes the live oaks, nightly fog creeps from the sea, ghosting graves of ancient folk. The fateful dead, who speak to me: "We didn't choose this... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Lonesome Road

  

  I'll not sing down that lonesome road. Who knows what haunts the ditch down there. So, I'll walk down the middle line, listening through still ringing... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk

  

  Flights by Olga Tokarczuk My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This book's unifying theme is broader than the title would suggest. I would argue that it's even... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

  

  The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This story hinges on the (now proverbial) pound of flesh. Bassanio is a poor... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

  

  Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page What will it mean when there are other entities that (who) are intelligent on a human scal... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Church Across a Lawn, Atlanta

  This entry was posted in America, Georgia, photographs, Photos, pictures, Tourism, travel, United States and tagged America, Atlanta, Atlanta First United... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Falling

  Oh, I can feel the force of your allure. It tugs my chest, and I am leaning fore. Have you bent space and time to your contour? For I fall into you, not down... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Animal Observations

  

  sitting on a stone -grassless -hopless and you call yourself a grasshopper! I know I shouldn't, but I anthropomorphize. I can't see this orangutan without... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Neighborhood Rhythm

  Hear the "schwoop-CLACK-schwoop-CLACK" of an automated loom playing in steady, relentless repetition. It's an iron machine, but listen to those wooden parts cla... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Crossing

  

  Walking into the river, sliding chin deep in the waters, pulled, thrashing, toward the channel, riding the rim of an undertow - like astronauts slingshot... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2019 SOCIETY, TRAVEL