POETRY
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Poems by Eric:

• A large number of poems I wrote at ages six and seven (1963)

• A poem for Sunday school, age 11 (1967)

• Poems in German (with translations) from my senior year of high school (1973)

• Poems for AP English from my senior year of high school (1974)

• A poem I submitted for a word-game contest in a magazine (1981)

• A few cryptic-crossword clues in the form of rhyming verses (1981–present)

• Two poems to a San Antonio Symphony friend and colleague, Terry Stolow (1991)

• A birthday poem to a San Antonio Symphony friend and colleague, Andrew Ehrlich (1991)

• A birthday-card poem to my young niece (1994)

• An assortment of poems to April on various occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, etc.) (1995–present)

• To a recent houseguest, Andrew Ehrlich (1996 and 1998)

• A number of thank-you poems to my in-laws for meals, presents, etc., on various occasions (1997–2013)

• Newer limericks (2000–2022)

• A huge number (more than 600) of National Puzzlers' League-style word puzzles in verse (2003–present)

• A short verse in which the letters of each word are in alphabetical order (c. 2008?)

• A self-description ("About You") for my Facebook page (2008)

• Some verses I contributed to a San Antonio Symphony musicians' Facebook page discussion thread (2009)

• My haiku response to The New York Times featuring "found haiku" within its text (2021)

• My haiku response to Donald Trump's declared intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico (2025)



Poems by April:

• Dawn, written by April at age 17, which was published in her high-school newspaper (1970)

• An assortment of poems to Eric on various occasions (birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, etc.) (1995–present)

• To a recent houseguest, Andrew Ehrlich (1996)

• A rainbow poem (2004)



Poems by Eric in collaboration with April:

• For a meeting of San Antonio music teachers (1996)

• A thank-you poem to Eric's mother (1999)

• Song lyrics for a retiring musician colleague (2004)



Poem by Eric in collaboration with persons other than April:

• Carpool Limerick (1991)



Poems by Muriel Silberman Brahinsky, Eric's mother:

• Childhood poems (1934–c. 1940)

• Henry: In Memoriam (2001)

• In Loving Memory of Martin David Brahinsky (2011)