Thankful For The Pelican And Ogden Poem by Jim Yerman

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.

Today I an thankful for the pelican
a bird of whom I have always been somewhat smitten
and Ogden Nash for writing a poem much better
than any I could have written.


His poem:

A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill can hold more than this belican…
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week…
And I'll be damned if I see how the helican