Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on July 21, 2022 by B Gourley

post-quake scaffolds,
on the ancient temples,
teach impermanence

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

warm light strikes
the ruins, and - briefly -
they are new

Posted on July 19, 2022 by B Gourley

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

Posted on July 18, 2022 by B Gourley

thin strip of land
between sprawling waters:
landlubber's nightmare

Posted on July 17, 2022 by B Gourley

a lizard slinks
up to the stone's edge,
turning an eye on me

Posted on July 17, 2022 by B Gourley

in the night forest,
light catches two flowers:
Fuchsia in fuchsia

Posted on July 16, 2022 by B Gourley

an old fig tree, 
gnarled and knotty,
grotesque but strong

Posted on July 16, 2022 by B Gourley

Hanuman stands:
one club hand & one hand of
pacification