mountain hermit
looks over the city…
turns, walks back to hut.
Hermit [Senryū]
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Author Archives: B Gourley
DAILY PHOTO: Three Views of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi
Crimson Fig [Haiku]
sunbeams pass through
a reddened Sacred Fig:
one hundred warm hues.
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Forgotten Mountains [Haiku]
socked in for weeks:
clouds dissipate to reveal
forgotten mountains.
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“Lethe” by Walter de la Mare [w/ Audio]
Only the Blessed of Lethe's dews
May stoop to drink. And yet,
Were their Elysium mine to lose,
Could I, sans all repining, choose
Life's sorrows to forget?
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Slow Fire [Lyric Poem]
Explosion in slow motion
Rocks the boats that line the ocean:
Swaying, swaying, they swing to and fro!
Metronomic masts set to tempo, s l o w.
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DAILY PHOTO: Sevan Lake, Armenia
Let it Float [Lyric Poem]
Sans fear of dying,
The angst of trying
Is felt and left
To float.
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PROMPT: For a Day
Daily writing prompt
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why?
A Buddha / Bodhisattva (if there’s one about these days.) Why? To feel how his (or her) subjective experience compares to my own.
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“The Bustle in a House” (1108) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
The Bustle in a House
The Morning after Death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted opon Earth --
The Sweeping up the Heart
And putting Love away
We shall not want to use again
Until Eternity --
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