It Ain’t Poetry © 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com – Posted to Twitter in rough-draft on 11/28/2021 I write a daily “column” on twitter under the hashtag “#FirstCuppaJoe”. These are a report on my caffein-aided meditations each morning. What you might find each day is kind of “pot-luck” — Forrest Gump’s “box ’a… Read More Opinion | It Ain’t Poetry
©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com The Word In OUR beginning was the Word As without it, nothing in our Reality-of-Words could exist. What is real is what we say. We communicate our thoughts with Words And because our thoughts are chaotic, So are the Words, And the disease of chaos Goes virulent and spreads… Read More Poetry | The Word
Across the Mountains ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com 1949 Over the years, Mom and Pop had tried California, but something always drew them back East. Maybe they pined for that slower pace, a less crowded place. But when I was six, back they came, Spanning the Continental Divide, Several mountain ranges, And a boring… Read More Poetry | Across the Mountains
© 2010-2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com BOSTON For the Californian, San Francisco comes to mind . But not so hilly, Walkable. But bricks, bricks, red bricks. Omnipresent. We’d have ‘em too except for ours Being shattered and culled in epic quakes. And so many Irish Pubs And other old stuff. “Benjamin Franklin was… Read More Poetry | Boston
The Width, Depth and Breadth ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net The width, depth and breadth of America — Of American hearts — is unplumbable and unspanable. Her edges may be rocky and tempest-tossed, Clubbed and shattered by angry political waves, But the hearts are pure, as the plains are vast, And the highways… Read More Poetry | The Width, Depth and Breadth
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