Category: Poetry

They watched the tiger in his cage, The small boy standing by his dad. “If he got out,” the father said, “It surely would be very bad!” “The sign says it’s a man-eater,” The little boy quietly said. “If the tiger was to eat you, Doesn’t that mean that you’d be dead?” The dad, pleased […]

I thought that Aunt Helen Was going to throw a fit. I didn’t understand it, Not one little bit. I guess I didn’t show A lot of love and care Last Christmas, when she gave me That box of underwear. I tried to get a gift That she would long remember, And it’s really hard […]

My big brother and I Got a brand new pet frog. Daddy gave it to us; We had asked for a dog. We both were so happy Just too get a new pet. ‘Cause frogs make you happy When they’re all you can get. Right at first it would jump Then it would go, “Rib-bit.” […]

I lost a good friend When fate rolled the dice And caused him to get Scared half to death twice.

I pushed her high up in the sky, Where even eagles seldom fly. Was she scared, my fearless flyer? She just yelled, “Higher, Grampa, higher!”