Humanity
A World Culture Coalescing ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted to Twtter as a rough draft on 9/3/2021 A few millennia ago, Earth was a like a planet of virtual human-habituated islands, separated by vast distances, sprinkled across a great global ocean. We humans had
Depression
More on Gratitude ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Orignally posted as a rough draft to Twitter on 8/18/2021 FirstCuppaJoe for 8/18/21 A Tweeter asked, “the key to happiness is__ , no restriction on word count.” I answered in one word. #gratitude It even propelled me
Humanity
(c) 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com We are ALL lucky in one respect: As upsetting and hopeless as it seems, we have been “blessed” to be present to witness the greatest upheaval of social, religious, economic and political strife in the history of Humanity. No previous age compares
Happiness
Gratitude ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Yesterday, a guy I follow on Twitter asked a challenging question: “The secret of happiness is__” (no restriction on word count.) Yet, I immediately thought of one word that covers it. Gratitude. That’s it. Without gratitude there can be no happiness.
Agnosticism
An Argument with God © 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Dear God, If You are there, I’ll just call You, ” God,” because I don’t want to adopt potentially man-made labels for You. Also, If you don’t mind, until I am inspired otherwise, I will not address
Government
Humanity’s Greatest Need: A Secular Morality ©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net Today’s world is a world of deception. Politicians promise to bring Utopia if elected, fully knowing they cannot deliver. Once in office, they lie, pull dirty tricks or just vegetate — collecting a handsome
Humanity
© 2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com This is the third iteration of “Fluidics” The reader can use our Search feature to see how the poem has evolved. VMK Fluidics III Ego, Power, Political Influence, Hedonism, Flow inward To be absorbed, And then to rot — In the stench of the grave.
Humanity
An Open Letter from God This is a copy of text read by Paul Harvey on a radio broadcast clear back in 1998. This says it all. When I read it I was shocked that it mirrored a lot of my writings on this blog and on my Twitter feed
Agnosticism
Certitude ©2018 Vernon Miles Kerr Certitude is the anodyne of a muddled mind. And, aren’t all our minds a mess without it? As entropy collapses the Universe around our ears Our mystery-averse minds piteously flail Like drowning men ‘round a ruptured ship, Grabbing even hopeless bits of flotsam to
Holocaust
Yin and Yang Revisited © 2018 Vernon Miles Kerr I thought it might be time to revisit my 2014 poem, “Yin and Yang,” given the ensuing four years of world and personal events. The poem, rather “dashed-off” in a flash of inspiration and never really forged and honed, as it should
Government
More on Morality © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr A regular reader of this blog has probably figured me out by now; near three-quarters of a century on this planet and still agonizing over the big questions: Is there a God (with a capital “g”)? Are the “Holy” books of the world
Alexander the Great
What Makes a ‘Great Man?’ © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr You Too, Can Be a Great Man My memories of the curriculum in the California Public School System during the very early 1950s include a grade-level-spanning—almost obsessive—focus on creating “Great Men” (or Great Women.) It seems like this obsession
Humanity
Internecine © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr Are all families dysfunctional? Are any not? Thanksgiving beckons. Love draws, but fear impedes. We go anyway, Putting away ancient hurts And hoping for the best — Hugs and howdies. The mashed-potatoes go ’round, Cranberries and turkey too. We hold our tongues Until alcohol loosens them
Aging
(c) 2016 Vernon Miles Kerr That Shadow on the Wall, It just now jumped From over there to here— I must have dozed, Or maybe I had a brain fart, As they say. I know that the old CPU Ain’t what it used to be– Ain’t what it
Life
Cycles © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr Up That poem needs work… but What’s happening on Twitter… Mail? This early? Never heard of ‘em. Probably spam…but Ohhh… a new type of pruning saw… Might be good for the shaping our Maple needs.. Nah…I need to focus on the poem.
Ecology
Life Is… © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr Life is a flute of champagne. We are the twinkling bubbles Streaming upward, Spattering into oblivion at the top. We are born, We rise through life’s events Then we burst. Gone. Nothing. But new bubbles always replace us, For the moment. Life is