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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: Statues of St. Stephen’s Basilica

PROMPT: Residence

What do you love about where you live?

There’s always something going on in Bangalore — plenty of opportunities to learn. And yet it’s not a hellhole like many mega-cities.

DAILY PHOTO: Frankel Leo Street Synagogue

The small building dates to 1888, and the apartment block was built around it in the 1920’s by the local Jewish community both to shelter the synagogue and to support building the community.

PROMPT: Emotion

What positive emotion do you feel most often?

Contentment: the most sustainable of feelings.

DAILY PHOTO: Hungarian Parliament w/ Blue Sky

Taken in August of 2023 in Budapest

Retrograde [Haiku]

once stately mansion,
weedy & paint peeling:
entropy incarnate.

Summer Sunset [Haiku]

a shaft of sunlight
sneaks past a blocking cloud:
summer sunset.

DAILY PHOTO: Postapalota, Budapest

DAILY PHOTO: Széll Kálmán tér [formerly Moscow Square]

Sky Above [Haiku]

bounded by city:
look up to boundless sky,
& the mind soars.