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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.

DAILY PHOTO: Kolkata Pandals

DAILY PHOTO: Fishing in the Rain

Datta River; Sundarbans, West Bengal

Crocodile Hunter [Senryū]

at mangrove’s edge:
a croc, mouth agape.
lazy hunter?

DAILY PHOTO: Boat in the Light of the Setting Sun

Datta River, Sundarbans, West Bengal

PROMPT: Don’t Know

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Some people who know me (and most people who don’t) might not know that I would never announce something on a public forum that the people who know me don’t already know. I’m strangely private that way.

Tiger Stripe [Free Verse]

When setting sunlight warms 
silvery tree trunks &
mangrove reeds,
and they alternate with
deep shadows,
I finally understand
the tiger’s camouflage.

DAILY PHOTO: Forum Atmosphere, Kolkata

Jade Hills [Haiku]

clouds lift
to reveal jade hills:
Tah-Dahhhh!

DAILY PHOTO: Shravanbelagola

Five Wise Lines from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature, a complete impossibility!

Algernon

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn’t read.

ALgernon

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don’t mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

Algernon

One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

Algernon; [fyi: “Bunburying” is the use of appointments with ficticious individuals to get out of one’s duties and obligations.]

One should always eat muffins quite calmly.

Algernon