Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on March 7, 2022 by B Gourley

buffalo graze
beside the river
with aimless purpose

Posted on March 6, 2022 by B Gourley

hydrangeas
bloom in dense clusters,
feuding to open

Posted on March 6, 2022 by B Gourley

tree at the fore;
cascades across the chasm,
and my eye wanders

Posted on March 6, 2022 by B Gourley

an earth tone orchid
spits out a tongue of purple,
bucking disguise

Posted on March 5, 2022 by B Gourley

sand dunes 
textured with snaky furrows:
dunes upon dunes

Posted on March 5, 2022 by B Gourley

the early trail
is bare and well-defined; 
the deep trail hides

Posted on March 2, 2022 by B Gourley

a snowy park.
chubby birds flit about
in search of seed

watching monkeys 
watch humans, watching monkeys;
ad infinitum

one monkey minds
its own business; the other
has mischief in mind

a farmer surveys
his new stretch of sea,
mulling careers