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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: Fortifications of Leh Palace

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To Walk or Not to Walk? [Haiku]

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an egret saunters
 with purpose as the insect
  stands stock still.

Overgrown [Haiku]

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a building's corner
 shows like the edge of a face,
  under a tree's coif

DAILY PHOTO: Anjuna Beach

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Tree as Totem [Haiku]

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the world beyond
 the nearest tree
  often feels suspect.

Jolie Laide [Common Meter]

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I've seen in ordinary eyes
  a special twinkling glow.
 In rough and sinewy muscle
  I've seen a grace in throe.

From rotund torsos, I have seen
  a lithesome prance or strut.
 I've seen a thing called character,
  in schnozzes that kink or jut.

If beauty below the surface,
  it finds you splendor-blind.
 Then defect 's not in the object
   but in the viewer's mind.

DAILY PHOTO: Funerary Mosque, Bidar

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Nom de Polis [Blank Verse]

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This town has known many a name
 of ancient, medieval, and modern kind.
It's known more slurs than names, by far,
 and yet this people place remains.