Category: Poetry

A monster sleeps under my bed And nobody seems to care. He snores when I try to sleep So I know that he lives there. Dad’s told me all about monsters And I know they’re scared of light. So I asked Mom for a lamp And I leave it on all night. I was sure […]

He was really getting to me, Stopping at each intersection, Beating on his panel truck With a kind of planned perfection. He would jump out of his truck With a wooden baseball bat And bang upon the old truck’s sides With a rat-a tat-tat-tat. He was getting on my nerves, Why should I endure this […]

She sat there on her Grandpa’s knee, As he read to her from her book. She felt first of his cheek, then hers, And her face had a puzzled look. She touched his gnarled weathered hands, As she sat on his bony knee. And then she asked him once again, “And you think God also […]

Art got his wife a cell phone, His lovely blonde-haired wife. She’d never seen a thing like it In her whole blonde-haired life. While shopping at the grocery store, She got her first phone call from Art, “I really like my cell phone, Honey, But how’d you know I’m at Wal-Mart?”

Yesterday I got a call, she said her name was Joan. Her husband had been injured and he was all alone. As chaplain could I visit him until she could get there? Because she wanted him to know she’d sent someone to care. The doctor said the patient was really doing well. How soon he’d […]