Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on July 29, 2022 by B Gourley

a crow alights
upon a flowery branch --
beak pointing at me

Posted on July 27, 2022 by B Gourley

snail on a stone wall
remains still for hours on end;
on my next pass, gone

Posted on July 25, 2022 by B Gourley

shapeless darkness
erupts in blinding form
for an instant

Posted on July 24, 2022 by B Gourley

snowy mountains
stand above a trickling stream,
too cold to drip

Posted on July 24, 2022 by B Gourley

Posted on July 23, 2022 by B Gourley

gothic cathedral:
vault crumbled, floors moss green;
nature reclaims

Posted on July 22, 2022 by B Gourley

silver moonlight
glints off the mid-winter thaw --
shining coldly

Posted on July 20, 2022 by B Gourley

drab winter forest.
all is in earth tones,
but one orange lump

Posted on July 20, 2022 by B Gourley

tracks in sand
stretch dune after dune;
no life in sight

Posted on July 19, 2022 by B Gourley

mother bleats a cloud,
standing over its dead lamb --
ringed by a murder