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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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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We have a duty to the children of the world from the moment of their births
A duty to make them feel safe and happy on this planet we call Earth.

A duty to teach them right from wrong, to respect the plants and birds
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One never knows where our lessons will arise, we should always be on our guard
They crop up in the strangest places, like out in our own back yard...

We have some beautiful palm trees which need a little care
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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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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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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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