Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on July 5, 2023 by B Gourley

a plump heron
 walks on lily pads: my own
  Personal Jesus.

Posted on July 4, 2023 by B Gourley

Passiflora looks like
 space-age technology.

it seems like it should
  pick up signals from
  the far reaches of space...

but I doubt it does.

Posted on July 4, 2023 by B Gourley

a jungle walk
 yields an unexpected scene:
  decrepit ruins

Posted on July 2, 2023 by B Gourley

a snail dangles,
 on a leaf, in its house,
   effortlessly.

Posted on July 1, 2023 by B Gourley

the trees wave
 in pre-rain winds:
  but rain never comes.

Posted on July 1, 2023 by B Gourley

a hive of wasps,
 each one frenetic:
  do they never rest?

Posted on June 30, 2023 by B Gourley

in the contours
 of a stone-relief Ganesh:
  snail & centipedes.

Posted on June 29, 2023 by B Gourley

a gangly stork
 moves swift as a dart
  through the sky.

Posted on June 29, 2023 by B Gourley

blossoms
 in orange & yellow 
  compete for attention

Posted on June 28, 2023 by B Gourley

this Evening Brown 
 is well-named; it’s sluggish 
  in the morning.