Jim Yerman Poems

Two stray cats went exploring out in the world one day
One found it much too boring the other bright and gay.
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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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Yesterday I told a story about Bryan, it mentioned the Olympic torch...and sweat
Suddenly I realized I hadn’t embarrassed our other two children yet...
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Our city is golf cart friendly and now that we’re retired we thought, “Hey”
There’s a green way to get around and I can take it to work each day.”

So we drove to the golf cart showroom thinking, ‘How expensive can they be? ’
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In honor of National Peanut Butter and Jelly day I have my words arrayed
To pay homage and allegiance to the best sandwich ever made.
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You can have your Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter or Thanksgiving holiday
But, in my mind nothing, holds a candle to today...it's Donut Day!

It is celebrated on the first Friday in June...every year without delay.
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Bryan’s torch story is finished as is Ali’s blue hair tale of woe.
But we have three children which means we still have one to go.
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The French painter Henri Matisse, one day, was talking about his vocation
When he was asked the question, "Henri, what is your inspiration? "

Matisse walked the questioner out to his garden and said, "I grow artichokes!
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Humans tend to think we are better and intrinsically have more worth
Than all the other animals who co-habitate this Earth.

We think because we have a brain or so we all surmise
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I once knew a person who seemed angry all the time.
I did not know the reason- couldn't figure out the rhyme.

I never knew why she allowed her anger to surround her
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