Jim Yerman Poems

The young man noticed the older couple walking toward him at a slow and labored pace
The older man clinging to the older woman…his arm around her waist.

They stopped along the water's edge…he gave her an embrace.
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He was about to become a father…yes, a child he would beget!
So he browsed through countless bookstores…and he surfed the internet.

He was searching for a book on parenting…because he didn't have a clue…
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The sky was filled with clouds today they hugged the mountains…hanging low…
As a breeze picked up and the leaves were falling…I stopped to enjoy the show.

As I watched the clouds move across the sky…sometimes independently…sometimes intertwined…
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How wondrous is our heart…it performs a Herculean feat
by bringing us to life…when it begins to beat.

How enduring is the heart...it keeps beating even when we're asleep.
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There is so much that is wrong with the United States…
and even though our founders were farsighted
the country they created
Is far from one united.
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The poetry of an artist is in how her paints rhyme.
She's blessed with the ability to lift…
and freeze a moment we see in time…
This is the artist's gift…
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Two rivers flowing independently…their waters fast and wide
Two rivers flowing freely across the countryside…

Two rivers come together…two rivers forming one.
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He saw sadness in her eyes…this saddened him as well…
and he wondered if there was a way…her sadness he could quell.

But her sorrowfulness ran deep…as sorrow often will.
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After being together many years…one day she became distraught
when looking at him sitting there…she had an awful thought.

"Have you been happy? " she asked him…"Or would you rather have been free? "
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I had so many plans when I was just a boy…
plans that would bring me fame and wealth…happiness and joy…

I planned to be a pilot…I planned that I would fly…
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