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
Yin and Yang © 2018 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com writersclass.net As do the Yin and Yang, The black and white Of that ancient Asian dichotomy, The antipodes of Human Nature Revolve in nauseating monotony: Sumos exchanging brooding glares before the lunge. The meth-addicted darkness Rolls its empty sockets at the creative surge of… Read More Poetry | The Yin and Yang
Boulder © 2010, 2016, 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Quirky, busy little Boulder With its sprawling, yellow brick university And Nineteenth Centry business district, Spread out at the foot of the Flatirons. Those jutting stone slabs seem to grow out of Boulder Not visa-versa. They thrust upward beckoning the hikers, Promising untold vistas higher up… Read More Travels | Boulder
