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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.

PROMPT: Autobiography

Daily writing prompt
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?

“And that’s how you do that!”

(I’m told that in medias res is the ideal narrative approach for memoirs.)

Winter Springs [Haiku]

Photograph of the Beitou hot springs outside of Taipei.
an eerie fog
weaves through the trees:
Winter hot springs.

DAILY PHOTO: Beitou Park

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A photograph of Beitou, Taiwan with Beitou Park in the foreground.

Night Sun [Haiku]

a full moon glows:
its color, pale yellow —
posing as the sun.

Where Trees End [Senryū]

where the trees end,
a colony grows in a
cancerous fashion.

PROMPT: Couldn’t Live Without

Daily writing prompt
What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

Digestible non-toxic protein, digestible non-toxic fats, and digestible non-toxic carbohydrates.

Also, water and air, but they are non-commoditized (to a large extent, anyhow.)

Also, certain vitamins and minerals, but they would be subsumed in a good mix of the aforementioned three.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

Photograph taken in the Toroko Gorge, Taiwan.
toward day's end,
the shadowlands creep
down the valley.

Trickling Creek [Haiku]

creek that trickles
through a stark winterscape —
days from riverhood.

DAILY PHOTO: Atlanta Skyline from Grant Park

Hidden Spring [Haiku]

Photograph of a bare branch and small cloud taken in Grant Park of Atlanta.
branches aren't budding,
but shoots are sprouting
under dead leaves.