under the bridge
rain's chaos doesn't vanish:
ripples spread; drips plop.
Under the Bridge [Haiku]
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Cloudy Sky [Haiku]
look up: cloudy skies
from the upper story,
blot green yard from mind.
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Yellow Blossom [Haiku]
yellow blossoms
herald the Spring:
fragrance spreads the news.
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Ships at Anchor [Haiku]
ships in harbor,
anchored fore and aft,
await the typhoon.
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The Temple That Never Closes [Haiku]
the streets are dark --
even streetlamps rest -- but
light spills from the temple.
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Red Maple [Tanka]
early Spring seed pods
of Red Maple hold tight
- patiently —
til one day in late Spring:
they’ll drop, spin, and fly.
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Fogless Fog [Haiku]
white blossoms
seen through still bare trees:
looks like fog, sans fog.
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Alone in the Cold [Haiku]
Illusory [Free Verse]
Nothing is what it seems,
or as it feels it should be.
The world is full of
smoke & mirrors --
neither here nor there...
And yet everywhere...
& everywhen.
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Vagabond [Lyric]
![Photograph of a statue of a young vagabond taken at Fo Guang Shan [佛光山,] near Kaohsiung, Taiwan.](https://berniegourley.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/img_0378.jpg)
Each Soul contains its Vagabond
- Who yearns to travel light & free -
But they load too much baggage on,
Then tether him to a big tree.
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