Best Kern Poems

You’re not real deep as rivers go
You’re really not that wide
When it comes to my feelings of you
They’re feelings I just can’t hide

Through giant boulders you descend 
Winding through canyon walls
Inside you many have met their end
As rapidly as your water falls

Merle Haggard wrote a...

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Most of us think of rivers as women-
ever changing like their moods,
but mine was a man - a lover - a friend,
The Mighty Kern.

Like the rapids-
his life, his pain, his love rushed through my veins
and had the power to change
the boulders of hurt into tiny...

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