Muddy Water Tanka

Posted on May 28, 2021 by B Gourley

pristine flower
blooms in muddy water;
its fragrance
drowns out the scent of rot
until it feeds the mud

POEM: Ripples & Stillness

Posted on May 15, 2021 by B Gourley

ripples expand
from some unseen center
where a fish feeds,
and when stillness returns
i welcome its short life

Posted on May 9, 2021 by B Gourley

boulder churned
water sloshes to mist,
sunlit white --
its milky glow rounds
the gentle riverbend

Posted on April 16, 2021 by B Gourley

under spring skies,
the evergreen - thick
with new needles -
echoes the tune sung
by hardwood neighbors

Posted on April 12, 2021 by B Gourley

panting, i sit
on a rock, beside the trail,
watching porters pass 
loaded with logs and plywood --
followed by cows, and goats, and...

Posted on March 31, 2021 by B Gourley

flags flapping,
twisting on a line,
colors bright
on the arid mountain --
desolation décor

Posted on March 29, 2021 by B Gourley

the cone looms
as the city's backdrop,
drawing the eye --
some things are prettier
in death than in action

Posted on March 25, 2021 by B Gourley

Posted on March 13, 2021 by B Gourley

smooth boulders
dragged ever so slowly,
tumbling in floods,
sitting so far from the river
that they seem untouchable

Posted on March 12, 2021 by B Gourley

I
a gray day,
low dreary clouds hang down;
smoky air
clings to the earth —
all is close; nothing moves

II
tall puffy clouds
drift across the sky
like ship’s bridges,
moving in armada
through skies, calm & blue

III
a blue dome,
unblemished by clouds
if not for birds
looking to the sky
would stop the world