My Advice Poem by Jim Yerman

As I've watch people give and take advice here is something I've perceived…
Advice needs to be sincere when it is given and humble when it's received.

I believe advice should cascade from ones lips like a snowfall to the young
Drifting gently from above so they can catch some flakes upon their tongue.

I create these little poems each day… I let them soar as each day dawns
and sometimes I am pleasantly surprised how far these rhymes have gone.

I recently received a comment from South Africa…a request to be precise
from a little boy who wants to be a poet… and who asked for my advice.

I wanted my advice to be, for him, both useful and appealing
So I told him poetry is when you paint with words
to express what you are feeling.

I told him to keep a notebook by his side
and when something elicits in him a smile or a frown
To take it out…open it up and write that feeling down.

And then I told him just to write…to write religiously…
The words that pour from out his heart…will be is his poetry.

He wrote back to say ‘thank you'
and I wondered in one so young…
how many of my words drifted down
and landed on his tongue.