Jim Yerman Poems

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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Today we celebrate the letter E.
The most common letter in our alphabet….
If our alphabet was a band
E would be its majorette!
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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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Alcohol effects our brains and our bodies as a whole
It depresses our central nervous system which leads to a loss of self control.

Knowing drinking causes symptoms like the ones I just described
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You may not find this on the calendar but today is special anyway
June 7th every year is known as Drawing Day.

For anyone whose ever drawn and animal, a tree, a bus
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I just completed reading Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea
And will now relate a similar battle that transpired...regarding me.

In case you’re unfamiliar, the story’s about an old fisherman from long ago
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While waiting for Bryan at the airport I felt glad to be alive
As I watched two young girls wait expectantly for their grandma to arrive.

Their parents tried to calm them, but their attempts were all in vain
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