Entries from March 2024 ↓

Henry kissed me long ago, Longer than you need to know. Memories of that day gone by, One last wish before I die. When carving letters on my stone, Don’t put, “She lies here all alone.” Don’t put, “Love and marriage missed her.” For my epitaph just put, “HENRY KISSED HER!”

He’s gotten old and grouchy Kids get him all uptight. He says he does love kids As long as they’re kept out of sight. He read a book one night “Childproof your house”, it said. He read how to do it As he lay there in bed. Now he’s childproofed his house; He says that […]

A sestina is a special type of poem. The first six stanzas have six lines each, and the lines end in the same six words, but in a different order in each stanza. In the final stanza are three lines, each containing two of the words. Making a rhyming sestina adds a little more to […]

Everybody liked to tease Little Sam about his freckles; They liked to call him names Like Little Sammy Speckles. His Grandma saw him crying And asked why he was sad; He told her how the children Were teasing him so bad. She said, “I love your freckles. Each one’s a beauty spot. God loved you […]

My neighbor said she’d found a way Of getting her son out of bed, To get him up to go to school Had been like waking up the dead. Now he gets up at her first call, I asked her how she managed that. “He always sleeps with his big dog I just throw in […]