with trees bare, one sees
what Spring won't reveal:
monkeys don't care.
Winter View [Senryū]
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Author Archives: B Gourley
DAILY PHOTO: Holy Lords Transfiguration Convent, Tbilisi
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Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]
PROMPT: Goals
Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?
In playing football, I find telling linebackers “no” is not beneficial. Words are strange things, at once infinitely powerful or powerless, depending upon context and will.
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Muddy Bottom [Free Verse]
Sinuous channels
cut through the
river's muddy
bottom,
carrying clear water
ever downward
- ever onward.
From fortress walls
it's all been seen --
drought and flood,
but something always
trickled through.
As it was before those
stones were stacked.
As it will be when the
last rubble crumbles
into uncut
dust & rock.
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Two Ways to Go [Haiku]
highway parts landscape;
butterflies jink and loiter
as cars speed through.
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DAILY PHOTO: Holy Trinity Cathedral, Tbilisi
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Nomad [Free Verse]
One who doesn't feel
a lot at home anywhere
Begins to feel a little
at home everywhere.
He sees not strangeness
in strangers --
No more than he sees
in himself.
Any one place is not
greater nor lesser
than anywhere else.
Lands of gold and riches
are as likely devoid of
authenticity - of soul -
as impoverished places
are dripping with it.
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PROMPT: Secret Skill
“Secret?” To quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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Stony Ground [Haiku]
wildflowers bloom
-- sheltered by boulders --
on stony ground.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 