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...

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I'll be waiting here
wading through the seasons 
Seems I can't recall the
      reasons you aren't here with me 

As I...

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The stars will fade again this morning
They died a million years ago
As if to give a little warning...
you've lost your way back home

You left me...

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[Inspired by the melody: 'Pastel Reflections' by Kevin Kern]
www.last.fm/music/Kevin Kern/_/Pastel ReflectionsCached
[A 25 sec introduction precedes the Lyrics.]

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I called out your name, but I got no...

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Today I was thinking
About my first kiss
It’s really hard for me
Because it was so long ago
And to be brutally honest
Drugs 
   Have taken...

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If ever you're feeling afraid or alone
whatever the reason may be
I hope you will call me.  Just pick up the phone.
Just a call, ……...

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Now as I hold you
Here in my memories
Lost in all the times we've shared together
Once when forever
Held dreams we treasured
Dreams, that through time we would...

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Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt

Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong

Skyrocketed spiritually 
By Kern and Carmichael
Porter, Gershwin and...

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The first thing I remember hearing 
Was a car radio with a country song playing
A man singing while my mom was steering 
A song about...

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How can a stranger standing at the corner,
leave me breathless, in a trance...   I ask you?…
What are the chances, in such a moment,
one...

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As each morning goes, I shall remember you,
when life was beautiful and simply unvarnished

I shall remember you when each day unwinds,
with memories of dances among...

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(lyrics set to the melody: Kevin Kern/I'm Always Right Here/youtube)



The first time I saw you I knew in my heart     ...

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A tea totaler was she, until her first glass of Kvass.
Beer, Eastern European rye, did her in to her chagrin. 
A prim kickie-wickie to a...

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I'M ALWAYS RIGHT HERE---

(iNTRO)
Going, gone going, gone you've went away, I'm now found in such dismay;

(verse 1)
I am always, I'm always, I am always right...

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Galaxy of stars supplies
signal event in dark skies.
Tall straight pines birthed as light poles
heavens hallow grown-up roles.

Mirrored in the brook below
current venue ceases flow.
Trees denuded...

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