Entries from January 2026 ↓

He had been gone almost a week His yearly hunting trip alone. With out a thought of his poor wife, He didn’t bother once to phone. Now he could see that she was mad. Such times when simple caution pays. “Just how would you feel,” she asked him, “To not see me for seven days?” […]

Daddy called me “Stupid” For tasting Super Glue. I couldn’t even tell him That Sister dared me to!

Now you asked me to tell you just how I got saved, What caused me to change the way I behaved. But first I must tell you that God is no fool. He knows when you’re living by his holy rule. I was raised up in church and there dedicated, And when I got sick, […]

We were on our morning walk Just us two, ole Bea and me. I told ole Bea, “You’re getting old.” For we had both turned fifty-three. Then we saw him stuck fast there In hot asphalt, a little toad. I pried him loose most carefully And took him well out of the road. And then, […]

I signed up for a memory course Because my memory’s rotten. They said I’d taken it last year. I guess I’d just forgotten. ** I think I wrote this poem before Or is it déjà vu? Just tell me if you’ve read it Or did you forget it too?