Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on June 11, 2023 by B Gourley

ringed by city,
 a green oasis
  hides slyly.

Posted on June 11, 2023 by B Gourley

ginger blossom
 looks cleaner before
  the rain.

Posted on June 10, 2023 by B Gourley

the big red bug
 attracts attention 
  it doesn’t want.

Posted on June 10, 2023 by B Gourley

dead roots:
 sinuous as a river,
  luxuriant as hair.

Posted on June 9, 2023 by B Gourley

hazy morning.
 my bleary eye and tired mind
  locks on a Kolam.

Posted on June 9, 2023 by B Gourley

dusk has come.
 bats head out to hunt.
  black against dark sky.

Posted on June 8, 2023 by B Gourley

solo donkey:
 so lonely that it might
  be human with us.

Posted on June 8, 2023 by B Gourley

foraging geese,
 with heads down, honk to 
  prevent collision.

Posted on June 7, 2023 by B Gourley

my breath mingles
 with a bright white moon, on a
  cold winter night.

Posted on June 6, 2023 by B Gourley

squall line coming:
 the rains will freshen the fort,
  those walls grown green.