Life
Time Is Not a Stream ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Time is not a stream But many streams, Eternally branching rivulets of lava On the volcano of History. Time is not a dimension, It cannot be used for measuring. It is too flakey — changing with Velocity or
Humanity
The Big Picture ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Is Human Life Futile? During my furious writing activity, especially after retirement, my thinking on the “big picture” has evolved. I wrote the following poem in 2009 as a despondent cry, when I realized that my own life and
History
C a l i f o r n i a ! ©2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Once a Wilderness Cherished and groomed By Indigenous, Later stomping-ground of The Spanish. Who with Cowboy help, Stompped-down The indigenous. Immigration magnet, World economic power. World purveyor of progressive thought, Whose problems,
Life
You, Fickle Elixir of Hope © 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Bitterly delicious blower-away of morning groggy, Elixir, layering hope upon hopeless thoughts, Possiblities upon a sea of doubts: Why do you not stay longer? Would that medical science Create a timed-release version of you So that my
Humanity
Yin and Yang ©2014, 2018, 2023 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com As do the Yin and Yang, The black and white, Of that ancient Asian dichotomy, So, also the antipodes of Human Nature Revolve in nauseating monotony: Sumos exchanging brooding glares before the lunge. The meth-addicted darkness Rolls
Agnosticism
Questions ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com In human life, Oxymoron and cognitive-dissonance abound — Every mystery solved yields more. When did we awake from a contented existence of mere subsistence To a wondering annoyance of puzzlement over the overhead? Why didn't we stay focused on the
Ecology
The Heavenly Vintner ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Old Mother Earth is a Prime Vintage Having aged in the black dark cellar of space For billions of years, undisturbed, Except for ocasional riddling by asteroids and comets. At some long-planned moment the Vintner opened the bung And
Agnosticism
A New Genesis ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Introduction Caveat: This speculative narrative assumes, merely from personal logic, that there is a supreme, over-arching, dynamic, intelligence powering the Universe. Tthis is not an anti-religious, anti-Christian, anti-Islam, nor anti-Anything book. As a matter of fact it is a
American Government
#AMERICA ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com #AMERICA Her land is gorgeous Beyond comprehension. Her people are generous, Casual, & witty. But her politics are bombastic Self important and ugly. Her government—conceived A comforting facilitator, Creator of opportunites— Has become a hovering Dreaded, slavemaster.
Philosophy
Time ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Time is a construct of the human mind. The present does not really exist: it is merely the impossibly thin, hurtling cursor that creates revealed reality. There is no future, except in human imagination: what is out beyond the cursor’s
Humanity
Humanity, the Gamut ©2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Good-hearted nurturing people abound, As do parasitic thieving scoundrels. While mothers caress and coo, Whores flaunt their wares downtown. A caring physician, strokes a fevered brow While a Drug Lord in a storied mansion On a storied estate Shouts
Poetry
Give ‘Em What They Want (c) 2022 by Vernon Miles Kerr and VernonMilesKerr.com Perhaps the world was always thus, Like sweet and sour pork, Or flaming dog turds on a porch, Or things of that import. The air up there must be sublime, Where one does what he pleases,
Poetry
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
Poetry
Scolding ©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Scolding isn’t instructing Neither is it mentoring, No matter how needful The recipient. Scolding doesn’t inspire But secretly infuriates; It constipates growth, Withers self-worth. Scolding’s intonation is downward, Like the one for alarm: “Look out!” “STOP!” “You asshole!” “You
Japan
Tokyo ©2010,2016,2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com She is more than huge, she is blatantly contradictory. She’s American-ish, but Japanesey; Familiar but exotic; Traditional but wildly avant garde.; Savoring but guzzling; Giddily young but staidly elderly. Near Shinjuku station it’s girls in blue jeans And tiny
Mortality
Turn Around ©2019 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com “Turn around, and you’re two, Turn around and you’re four, Turn around and you’re a young man, Going out of my door…” 1. We try to measure Time by watching growing-things Like kids and trees and patches of peeling