Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Lifelike? [Senryū]

Posted on March 15, 2025 by B Gourley

lifelike bird sculpture
 doesn’t fool the insect
  that lands on its beak.

Poppy [Haiku]

Posted on March 13, 2025 by B Gourley

cliffside poppy:
 bee shakily alights
  in a mountain breeze.

Clipper [Haiku]

Posted on February 21, 2025 by B Gourley

jungle butterfly
 finds a spotlight
  to warm its back.

Elusive Cicada [Senryū]

Posted on February 19, 2025 by B Gourley

seeking cicada
 that drills my brain,
  I find only a shell.

Moth Flight [Haiku]

Posted on January 30, 2025 by B Gourley

moth falls off wall,
 pulls up erratically, &
  struggles for altitude.

Schrödinger’s Dragonfly [Haiku]

Posted on January 11, 2025 by B Gourley

dragonfly,
 cool autumn morn:
  dead or in thaw?

Grasshoppers [Haiku]

Posted on January 6, 2025 by B Gourley

walking in rice stalk,
 grasshoppers ping forward, 
  plink - plink - CRUNCH - plink...

Asian Weaver Ant [Lyric Poem]

Posted on January 4, 2025 by B Gourley

There once was a wee Asian Weaver Ant
  Who lived on a big banana tree plant.
 When they cut down his tree, a problem arose,
  Moving to a rubber tree would be too on-the-nose.

Brisk Morn [Haiku]

Posted on January 2, 2025 by B Gourley

brisk morn dragonfly:
 too cold to move, or dead?
  unmoved by footfall.

Unsettled [Haiku]

Posted on December 8, 2024 by B Gourley

a butterfly
 lurches flower to flower;
  never settling.

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