Category: Poetry

Someone’s knocking At our back door That’s not happened Back there before. No one’s at home But Nan and me; I wonder what The knock could be? Maybe a ghost, Or grizzly bear That’s knocking on Our door back there! I think that I Had best go see; I’m in charge, It’s up to me! [...]

My sis really does hate spiders; I put a fake one in my hair, I asked her to look and see What was crawling around in there. She screamed and yelled and said, “Get out!” And tried to make me leave her room. I yelled, “Please help me get it out!” I didn’t know she [...]

I play at lots of funerals, This one was for a homeless man. Bagpipers really like to play, And I play every chance I can. The directions I was given Were poorly done and made me late. I had missed the poor man’s funeral When I got to the graveyard gate. Only the digging crew [...]

It was first game of the season, There was excitement in the air. One team had much bigger players, It didn’t seem to be quite fair. I asked a lad from the small team If he had kept up with the score. He said his home team had zero, The other team had twenty four. [...]

For Christmas, I gave my wife’s mom Her very own burial plot. She said that it was the weirdest Of all the presents that she got. I didn’t buy a gift this year, And she was mad as she could get! And madder still, when I explained She hadn’t used last year’s gift yet.