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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: Jama Masjid of Fatehpur Sikri

Taken in October of 2013 in Fatehpur Sikri

 

POEM: Dark Tides

Chase me down ’round the bend
All great men seek amends
When they’re caught red-handed,
&
their clan is disbanded

 

They throw into dark tides
time-wrecked, busted past pride
lost to all foreign shores
like
sand-sunk litter of past wars

DAILY PHOTO: Városháza Toronyórája by Night

Taken in December of 2014 in Pécs, Hungary

DAILY PHOTO: Rooster Under Blue Sky

Taken in April of 2017 in Khonoma, Nagaland

DAILY PHOTO: Ajanta Façades

Taken in November of 2014 at Ajanta

 

DAILY PHOTO: Saint Othmar, Kolonitzplatz

Taken in December of 2016 in Vienna

POEM: Bird’s Life Haiku





hawk’s spiral swoop
snatches a sack skyward
morsels spilling



crow tugs rat carcass
like a combat comrade
cursing pal’s flab



Maribu meeting
looks formal: coat and tie
civil as Congress



POEM: Some Night

you’ll some night die

frost in your beard

you’ll some night die

trudging through snow

you’ll some night die

presaging numbness

you’ll some night die

smelling the smoke

of a cabin unseen

wondering where

that heat source lies

you’ll some night die

one winter night

in life’s autumn 

DAILY PHOTO: Moonlight Pavilion

Taken in October of 2012 in Phnom Penh

DAILY PHOTO: Ruins of St. Augustine’s

Taken in October of 2016 in Old Goa (Velha Goa)