Jim Yerman Poems

It's selected off the store shelf.
It brings security and joy.
It takes its place among the family…
when it becomes a child's toy.
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Men,
It is International Women's day…
a chance for fools like me and you,
to celebrate and marvel
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May we be blessed to acknowledge all the wonders in our life
that have, for us, thus far accrued…
and to begin each day with a word of thanks…
and thoughts of gratitude.
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Ava's mom, her dad, two of her brothers, a soon-to-be sister in law
her cousin with his girlfriend and Nana and I all came….
to watch Ava (her team's goalie) play this season's last soccer game.
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Carl Jung was the founder of analytical psychology
He's also the man who coined the term synchronicity.

You're thinking about a person and they phone, or they appear.
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I was straightening the bookstore the other day, before we opened...all alone
When it hit me how every person in this world is like a novel of their own.

An ongoing and unfinished novel that too our happiness or dismay
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As I was making pancakes in the shapes of olives for Aden's birthday the other day
I remembered how I used to make them for our children on Saturdays.

And as I was pouring out the shapes on the griddle, adding colors, I could see
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When I look into the mirror I’m appalled at what I see
I do not recognize that person who is looking back at me.
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This Christmas Ali and her family gave Deborah and I a gift we thought was splendid
A framed photograph of Deborah and I at a recent wedding we attended.
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Have you ever experienced Heaven on Earth, I imagine everyone has
It could be a walk on the beach, a beautiful sunset, or perhaps a little jazz.

The point is Heaven on Earth is individual, it’s different for you and me
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