Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on August 7, 2023 by B Gourley

eyes follow stems
 down to water, & further 
  down to sky.

Posted on August 6, 2023 by B Gourley

gray clouds
 over the river
  make silver waters.

Posted on August 6, 2023 by B Gourley

algae-covered pond:
 provides a blank-slate
  for shadow art.

Posted on August 4, 2023 by B Gourley

a sunning frog
 taunts all predators
  to test their weight.

Posted on August 4, 2023 by B Gourley

deer of summer -
 who'd blend with Fall's tawny grass -
  stand out.

Posted on August 4, 2023 by B Gourley

towering temples
 poke clear of the canopy:
  to be seen
 by god above, or not to
 be seen by people below?

Posted on August 3, 2023 by B Gourley

crude tracks weave, merge,
 & part on the pebble beach:
  sober drunkards' walk.

Posted on August 2, 2023 by B Gourley

patches of farmland:
 green & angular; 
  hemmed by desert.

Posted on August 1, 2023 by B Gourley

willow leaves,
 slender and sinuous,
  hang to the river.

Posted on July 31, 2023 by B Gourley

the setting sun
 fires the mountain's Yang-side
  to max contrast.