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Unimpressed [Tanka]

Posted on March 22, 2023 by B Gourley
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a stately building
 stands beside the river,
  commanding the eye.
 but that ancient river
  remains unimpressed.  

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Posted in architecture, City, nature, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged architecture, Budapest, building, Danube, Danube River, Hungarian Parliament, nature, poem, poetry, river, tanka | Leave a reply

Seed Spitting Deity [Tanka]

Posted on March 16, 2023 by B Gourley
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morning offering
 with a melon wedge;
  a bas-relief face
 seems to have bitten a chunk,
  and is prepared to spit seeds.

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Posted in Hindu, Indonesia, Kyōka, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged Bali, Balinese Hindu, Balinese Hindu Temple, Hindu Temple, Kyōka, melon, Offering, poem, poetry, tanka, Temple, watermelon | 1 Reply

Beyond Sight [Kyōka]

Posted on March 13, 2023 by B Gourley
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in the mountains,
 beyond every sightline,
  a potential top...
 but - more likely -
  just more to climb.

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Posted in Hiking, Kyōka, nature, outdoors, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged Hiking, Kyōka, Mountains, nature, poem, poetry, tanka, Trekking | 3 Replies

Skyward [Tanka]

Posted on March 5, 2023 by B Gourley
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i look skyward,
 and others stop to look.
  those who wonder
 why I'm looking up,
   might wonder why they weren't.

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Posted in outdoors, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged outdoors, poem, poetry, Sky, tanka, wonder | 1 Reply

Golden Spotlight [Tanka]

Posted on January 12, 2023 by B Gourley
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early morning 
rays hit the canopy
and fan out
into gold bands of light:
spotlights with no targets

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Posted in Blogs, nature, outdoors, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged Canopy, Light, photos, poetry, Sunlight, Sunrise, tanka, trees | 3 Replies

Monkey Forest [Free Verse]

Posted on January 4, 2023 by B Gourley
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in the monkey forest,
i think of 
Sun Wukong & Hanuman
as a macaque 
steals my sunglasses

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Posted in Animals, Free Verse, nature, poem, Poetry, tanka, wildlife | Tagged Free Verse, Hanuman, macaque, monkey, poem, poetry, Sun Wukong, tanka, Vers Libre | Leave a reply

Rain & Waves [Tanka]

Posted on December 29, 2022 by B Gourley
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waves crashing
on a rain-darkened shore
lull me to sleep,
as pelted boatmen
tug their boats inland

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Posted in Blogs, nature, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged nature, poem, poetry, Rain, shore, tanka, Waves | Leave a reply

Dragonfly [Kyōka]

Posted on November 23, 2022 by B Gourley
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the dragonfly
is still, and I wonder
whether it's dead,
and further wonder whether
anyone has thought that of me

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Posted in Death, insect, Kyōka, poem, Poetry, tanka, wildlife | Tagged Death, dragonfly, insect, Kyōka, poem, poetry, Stillness, tanka, wildlife | Leave a reply

Green City [Tanka]

Posted on July 12, 2022 by B Gourley
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a desert city
stretches green between
the mountains;
do people choose trees,
or do trees co-opt humans?

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Posted in City, nature, poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged city, desert, green, poem, poetry, tanka | 1 Reply

Line of Blindness [Tanka]

Posted on July 7, 2022 by B Gourley
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mountains peek from clouds.
moments before they'd hid well;
i can't help but think
about all those times,
flying through clouds, blindly

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Posted in poem, Poetry, tanka | Tagged Blindness, clouds, flight, Mountains, poem, poetry, Sightlessness, tanka | Leave a reply

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