Jim Yerman Poems

A friend posted a link on Facebook the other day, and just where did that link go?
To a web site that asked the question, ‘Can you be happy 100 days in a row? ”

It challenged us in this fast paced world to join the happiness craze.
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Happy Cinco de Mayo, a day to party while clad in red and white and green
To drink Coronas and eat Mexican rice with a side of refried beans.

You could drink a Margarita, or around a glass of Dos Equis your hand might be curled
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OK it’s official people...from Key West to the city of Gnome
If I go by the number of likes I received...3 martini’s is my most popular poem.
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The year was 1992, Deborah’s mother had recently passed
She was taken from us too soon...her life over much too fast.
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One of the joys of our daily walks is passing the same things every day.
It makes the walk more intimate knowing what to expect along the way.

You stop being an observer when you walk the same paths repeatedly
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When you walk in silence in the morning...
you hear the wind whisper to the trees...
As the syncopation of the crickets
Floats upon the breeze.
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I love traditions, but we learned long ago with our blended family
We needed to look at our traditions with more objectivity.

With so many relatives to be considered and only so much time in any holiday
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In the past year I've written poems about many items we drink and eat
I've posted them to Facebook, they've even shown up in my Tweets.

Whatever I've said about other foods, today all seems so lame
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When you think about the following quote...what Emily Dickinson said,
It's ironic most of her poetry was published after she was dead

‘A word is dead when it is said, some say.
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I’m no mathematician...I don’t know Pythagoras’s theorem from that simple ratio Pi
But after spending a few days with the grandchildren I know numbers do not lie.

Yes numbers play an important role as we travel down life’s path
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