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About B Gourley

Bernie Gourley is a writer living in Bangalore, India. His poetry collection, Poems of the Introverted Yogi is now available on Amazon. He teaches yoga, with a specialization in pranayama, and holds a RYT500 certification. For most of his adult life, he practiced martial arts, including: Kobudo, Muay Thai, Kalaripayattu, and Taiji. He is a world traveler, having visited more than 40 countries around the globe.

A Sun Within [Haiku]

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Photograph of purple and yellow water lilies taken in Hanoi, Vietnam.
purple lilies
 open to reveal
  a Sun within.

DAILY PHOTO: Mountain Pasture

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Photograph taken in the countryside near Sapa, Vietnam.
Photograph taken outside Sapa, Vietnam on the QL4D highway on the road to Lao Cai.

Mountain Mist [Haiku]

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hot summer day,
 sitting downwind of cascade:
   misted by spatter.

PROMPT: Tattoo

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Daily writing prompt
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
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I would not like a tattoo. 
 I would not like one - old or new. 
 I wouldn't like one in a Zoo. 
 I wouldn't like one in a canoe. 
 I would not like one, 
   Ham though I am, 
 I would not like any body-spam.

Chasing Grandeur [Free Verse]

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Photograph of mountain looming over the city, taken at Sapa, Vietnam.
I saw the mountaintop, 
   but by the time I climbed 
       the mountain,
 I was in the clouds and 
   could not see back to
       where I'd been.

God’s Eye [Senryū]

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Photograph of God's Eye Mountain in the Cao Bang Province of Vietnam.
hiked halfway around
 the God's Eye Mountain before
  its name made sense.

DAILY PHOTO: Uttari Betta

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Photograph taken at Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India on a cloudy monsoon season day.
Photograph taken atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India with the farmland far below in the background.
Photograph of precariously positioned rocks atop Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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Photograph of a tree on the granite hill named Uttari Betta in Karnataka, India. 
roots grow down
 through stony ground -- still,
  Spring brings deep green.

PROMPT: One Word

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What is one word that describes you?
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Ornery.

Troubled Bridge [Free Verse]

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Photograph of a railway bridge over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Iron skeleton
   spans the water.

Weeds sprout from ties, 
   rust eats its way under 
       flaking paint & over
            rivet heads.
       
I remember the whistle's blow,
    a long, long time ago.