Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on April 8, 2025 by B Gourley

I came across a turbinate shell
   While walking forest, glade, and dell.
 With fingernail, I gave a tap
   To learn if its tenant was in nap.

snail stretches
 to view the beautiful house -
  too close to see.

Oh my! I am so very awed
  by this mighty l’il gastropod.
 Its moves make taiji masters seem rushed,
 but it lugs a house without being crushed.

Posted on May 24, 2024 by B Gourley

it's a seller's market
 for snail housing, based
  on that cramped shell.

this odd little shrub
 grows snails like seed pods:
  or so it seems.

Posted on August 8, 2023 by B Gourley

the curious child 
 remains unbaffled by the
  complexities
 of snail amore:
 thinking the lead a tow-snail.

Posted on July 2, 2023 by B Gourley

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

a snail hangs
on a banana leaf,
effortlessly

in a tree hollow,
snails multiply as far
as the eye can see

Posted on July 27, 2022 by B Gourley

snail on a stone wall
remains still for hours on end;
on my next pass, gone