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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: One Day

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If you could relive one day from your past, which day would it be and why?
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I’ll take any of those pre-Arthritic days in which I was brimming with energy all the time.

DAILY PHOTO: Sign Much, Tokyo?

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Photograph of a sign-laden street in Shibuya, Tokyo.
Photograph of a sign-laden street in Akihabara, Tokyo.

PROMPT: Cry

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What’s the last movie that made you cry?
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Tropic Thunder. Laughed myself to tears.

DAILY PHOTO: Köktöbe Ferris Wheel

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Photograph featuring a Ferris wheel taken at Köktöbe (Blue Hill) on the edge of Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Photograph featuring a Ferris wheel taken at Köktöbe (Blue Hill) on the edge of Almaty, Kazakhstan.

PROMPT: History

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If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
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The Teapot Dome Scandal. Because of the way History is taught (or was in my day) I have this name indelibly etched in my brain (taking up valuable — i.e. limited — real estate) that has no significance because I have no idea what said event was. Was it about teapots? Was it about domes? Was it about both? If so, what’s a “teapot dome?” The curved part at the top? How big of a teapot related scandal could there be, really.

Ephemeral View [Haiku]

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in a one step span
 reflected flowers come
  in and out of view.

DAILY PHOTO: Line of Elephants on Barren Earth

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Photograph taken in Amboseli National Park in Kenya of a line of elephants traipsing out of the shelter of trees across bare soil.

PROMPT: Conspiracy

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What’s a conspiracy theory you actually find believable?
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I used to think any conspiracy of three or more was doomed to someone talking, but now I’m pretty sure there’s a bipartisan cabal of billionaires who get together and laugh and laugh about how they can get with absolutely every American underaged daughter if they just keep people scrolling material that paints an opposition as lunatics void of all humanity, such that a pack of horny dimwitted robber-barons seem positively electable by comparison.

Summer Gust [Haiku]

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malformed tree 
 stands rigid against
  a Summer gust.

Caterpillars [Haiku]

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caterpillars
 on each branch;
  leaves, but memories.