Tiger Riding for Beginners

Traveling Poet Philosopher & Occasional Wiseacre

Posted on July 24, 2022 by B Gourley

snowy mountains
stand above a trickling stream,
too cold to drip

Posted on July 22, 2022 by B Gourley

silver moonlight
glints off the mid-winter thaw --
shining coldly

Posted on July 20, 2022 by B Gourley

drab winter forest.
all is in earth tones,
but one orange lump

Posted on July 10, 2022 by B Gourley

winter: stone sculpture
of snuggled infant & mother;
my bones grow cold

Posted on July 9, 2022 by B Gourley

ice-glazed branches,
stiff in the winter calm:
can they flex with wind?

Posted on July 1, 2022 by B Gourley

icicles dangle
over a rushing stream;
by noon, only stream

Posted on March 10, 2022 by B Gourley

Posted on March 10, 2022 by B Gourley

breath billows
in the cold, evening air --
a child amused

Posted on March 2, 2022 by B Gourley

a snowy park.
chubby birds flit about
in search of seed

in winter,
frangipanis stand bare,
bracketing the shrine